Wealthy Saudi holidaymakers are a staple of Istanbul's tourist industry.
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Others are holidaymakers taking advantage of the long annual break.
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The number of younger package holidaymakers is growing particularly fast.
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Many holidaymakers fled the storm Thursday night before the airport closed.
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Those actions scared off holidaymakers and investors, worsening an economic crisis.
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At Colombo airport, departing holidaymakers were relieved to be getting out.
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Both airlines target price-conscious holidaymakers flying long haul across the Atlantic.
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This may dissuade holidaymakers from exaggerating an iffy tummy into a claim.
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Many holidaymakers fled the storm Thursday night before Salalah International Airport closed.
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Budget holidaymakers of all stripes will find a warm welcome in Ukraine.
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One Spanish firm, lowcostholidays, went bust last month stranding 27,000 holidaymakers abroad.
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After all, "green" sounds more attractive than "ice-filled" for many holidaymakers.
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The village's wetlands and pristine springs drew throngs of holidaymakers every year.
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The attacks scared off holidaymakers and investors, worsening the country's economic problems.
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Turkey's Aegean and Mediterranean resorts and beaches are traditionally popular with European holidaymakers.
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Many hardy holidaymakers simply swapped affected bits of the country for unaffected ones.
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Last summer, Australia attracted 2.71 million holidaymakers, many fleeing the northern hemisphere winter.
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They also provide insurance—for example, refunding disappointed holidaymakers when an airline goes bust.
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And so lawyers and claims-management firms moved to target their services at holidaymakers.
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Thomas Cook says there are roughly 140,000 holidaymakers currently traveling with its German units.
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Thomas Cook says there are roughly 140,000 holidaymakers currently traveling with its German units.
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The big losers are the 600,000 or so holidaymakers currently travelling with Thomas Cook.
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As long as holidaymakers prioritise cheap prices over service, Ryanair's planes will remain full.
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THOMAS COOK SAYS THERE ARE ROUGHLY 140,000 HOLIDAYMAKERS CURRENTLY TRAVELLING WITH ITS GERMAN SUBSIDIARIES
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By 2023, Turkey aims to attract 50 million holidaymakers a year and earn $50 billion in tourism revenues by diversifying beyond beach vacations to wellness and sports holidays, as well as luring more holidaymakers from Asian countries including China, India and South Korea.
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Mati is a popular spot for Greek holidaymakers, particularly pensioners and children at summer camps.
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The region receives a quarter of the world's holidaymakers (Europe's share is still a half).
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The vehicle, which was full of Thai holidaymakers, paused for a moment, as if stalled.
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It leaves behind big questions over who should pay to rescue stranded holidaymakers in future.
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About 600,000 holidaymakers were left stranded, leading to the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history.
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But the crisis has made Greece cheaper for holidaymakers, whose spending supports plenty of local jobs.
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Until Easter day it had enjoyed a reputation as one of the safest countries for holidaymakers.
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In late October, a Russian plane carrying holidaymakers from a Red Sea resort crashed in Sinai.
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Last year the sinking of a boat in Phuket killed 47 Chinese tourists, horrifying prospective holidaymakers.
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British foreign minister Raab sought to reassure holidaymakers that they would not end up stuck overseas.
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On top of that, Australia is a travel destination that is a major decision for holidaymakers.
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And the biggest pool of free-spending holidaymakers in the western hemisphere is just a hop away.
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Over lunar new year the Ryukyu Islands, which together make up Okinawa prefecture, were heaving with holidaymakers.
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Much of the growth is coming from Chinese holidaymakers, who have been lured away from Thai beaches.
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At just £15,000, Swift says it is so popular the company cannot meet demand from young holidaymakers.
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"Departy's over: Brit holidaymakers could be BANNED from 24-hour boozing at U.K. airports," said The Sun.
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The case has prompted calls for a boycott of the island, which is popular with British holidaymakers.
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It comes after British tour operator Thomas Cook announced it had collapsed, leaving thousands of holidaymakers stranded.
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Several countries, including Australia, Singapore, and the United States, have issued travel advisories alerting holidaymakers to the risk.
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Scores of people are believed unaccounted for, with the presence of the holidaymakers making it difficult to tally.
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One risk is that the life is sucked out of the local economy as rich holidaymakers go elsewhere.
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In the summer months, Mr. Mella's buns and loaves are bought by the locals and a few holidaymakers.
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However, in addition to the hordes of holidaymakers, foul-smelling algae and climate change have become serious concerns.
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Several countries, including Australia, Singapore, and the United States, have issued travel advisories alerting holidaymakers to the new risk.
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The startup operates like a travel booking platform to allow holidaymakers to choose and secure their travel plans online.
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Officials refuse to be drawn on whether the smugglers are simply enthusiastic holidaymakers, or part of a bigger racket.
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In the summer months, 25,2000 holidaymakers sojourn here, but in the winter, the place feels remote and somewhat deserted.
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THE Mahia peninsula, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, has been a holidaymakers' haven for decades.
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Her exploitation is laid bare when a tour guide arrives at the witch camp with gawping holidaymakers in tow.
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The Kassiopi project on Corfu, a popular destination for British, German and Russian holidaymakers, was first tendered in 2012.
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One was the hostel owner, who was annoyed about the virus, because it had led holidaymakers to cancel bookings.
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It bustles with holidaymakers choosing their food and drink from the buffet while others bag sunloungers by the pool.
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An indoor Olympic-size swimming pool is a few steps from a lakeside slipway where holidaymakers may launch speedboats.
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TUI also said demand from British holidaymakers had not been hit by the decision to leave the European Union.
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The world's largest travel firm, Thomas Cook collapsed last month, stranding hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers around the world.
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Holidaymakers today want to personalize their package, mixing and matching the elements that best fit their needs and lifestyle.
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The Polish unit Neckermann said its financial condition is stable and it continues to operate normally, with holidaymakers unaffected.
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On top of the British holidaymakers, some 460,000 customers are also abroad, with many coming from Germany or Scandinavia.
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Raab also said he had also spoken to the woman's mother, who has called for holidaymakers to boycott Cyprus.
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Most are holidaymakers around here lazily meandering back to their hotels -- prime targets for Pedro's light fingers and scant morals.
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A Facebook group urging holidaymakers to spend their summer in Georgia attracted more than 170,000 members in a few days.
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Red Sea resorts such as Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh are among the most popular among European and other holidaymakers.
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That has hit tourism in a nation whose Aegean and Mediterranean beaches usually lure droves of European and Russian holidaymakers.
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In Kos, an Aegean island popular with German holidaymakers, summer bookings have collapsed because of fears it will be overrun.
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The Thai holiday island of Phuket is popular with Russian holidaymakers and is home to a large Russian expatriate community.
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Sterling lost almost two percent last week just as British holidaymakers were heading off for some overseas sun GBP=D3.
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Travel groups supported the main index as British holidaymakers drove demand for destinations further afield given the contortions over Brexit.
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Tour operators will organize alternative travel arrangements for holidaymakers who have booked package deals, the German Travel Association (DRV) said.
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Television footage showed hundreds of holidaymakers camped inside the airport terminal, some sleeping on their bags, others using mobile telephones.
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Markets are fretting about China's economic health but it appears Chinese holidaymakers don't share the same concern about their own finances.
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As holidaymakers abandoned Istanbul, other airports in southern Europe, including in Croatia, Greece, Portugal and Spain, grew at a fair clip.
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Many of these holidaymakers were traveling abroad for the first time, according to local business people working in the tourism sector.
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According to Snopes, pictures posted on social media can also count as distribution – which is where holidaymakers could get in trouble.
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Last June, 30 British holidaymakers were killed when an Islamist gunman attacked a beach at a hotel on Tunisia's Mediterranean coast.
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But Shoukry said Britain's continued suspension of flights to Sharm al-Sheikh, once a popular destination for British holidaymakers, was unjustified.
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By September, however, only a few holidaymakers remained, lingering in patches of sunshine and dotting the walls of its ancient castle.
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To some holidaymakers, this will seem like yet another attempt by the travel industry to get money from every source possible.
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While the currency hasn't quite collapsed, these poor exchange rates are undoubtedly affecting British holidaymakers, who only have themselves to blame.
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Previously, their customers were mainly price-conscious holidaymakers who did not mind an uncomfortable flight as long as it was cheap.
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A van plowed into crowds of holidaymakers and local residents on Barcelona's crowded Las Ramblas boulevard last Thursday, killing 13 people.
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Business travellers may be more likely to pay for perks than holidaymakers, although the survey provided few details on that front.
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All previous cases diagnosed over the past week at the hotel had been restricted to a group of 10 Italian holidaymakers.
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Despite the reputation of its leader, Gambia's Atlantic ocean beaches are popular with European holidaymakers seeking winter sun, sea and sand.
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All previous cases diagnosed over the past week at the hotel had been restricted to a group of 10 Italian holidaymakers.
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Speaking to BBC radio, the woman's mother said she supported calls on social media for British holidaymakers to avoid the island.
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Thorsten Dirks, Eurowings chief executive, said on Friday holidaymakers who were due to return home on an Air Berlin flight between Oct.
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And last year Thomas Cook made it possible for holidaymakers to reserve a specific room in their resorts by paying €30 ($37).
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British Airways said it was disappointed that BALPA was threatening holidaymakers with strike action and that its proposed pay offer was fair.
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As millions of holidaymakers head off for their summer break, increasing numbers of popular destinations are saying they cannot take much more.
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At the height of summer some 10,000 holidaymakers per day trundle off cruise ships into the alleyways of Santorini, a Greek island.
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Plainly, holidaymakers can't be expected to probe their host countries' defects — quite often linked to their home countries' hypocritical "foreign aid" programs.
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Still, gazing out of their aeroplane windows, returning holidaymakers may notice some of the things that hold their curious little continent together.
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L has left hundreds of thousands holidaymakers abroad and forced governments and insurers to coordinate a huge operation to get them home.
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Instead, a cooling economy means holidaymakers are staying closer to home - on the beaches of Sanya or the peaks of far-western Yunnan.
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The holidaymakers haven't yet descended upon the southern beaches, and the weather, though warm, dry and sunny, hasn't yet reached its blistering apex.
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It is a jellyfish, abundant in the Mediterranean Sea, that is the chief cause of stings to swimmers in that popular holidaymakers' destination.
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That has hit tourism in a nation whose Aegean and Mediterranean beaches usually lure droves of European and Russian holidaymakers in the summer.
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TO BRITISH holidaymakers flying from East Midlands airport, near the quiet English town of Castle Donington, it seems like any other small airfield.
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TUI also added that it hadn't seen an impact on demand from British holidaymakers after the UK voted to leave the European Union.
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In the town center flanked by dozens of wooden single-storey shops and houses, holidaymakers have slowly started to make their way back.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers were stranded on Monday by the collapse of the world's oldest travel firm Thomas Cook TCG.
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MALLORCA, Spain (Reuters) - More than half a million holidaymakers were stranded around the globe on Monday following the collapse of Thomas Cook TCG.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers were stranded on Monday by the collapse of the world's oldest travel firm Thomas Cook (TCG.
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Meanwhile, travel groups TUI and Thomas Cook rose over 2 percent after the latter said British holidaymakers are favoring destinations outside the European Union.
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Travel groups climbed to the top of the FTSE 100 as British holidaymakers drove demand for destinations further afield given the contortions over Brexit.
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Thomas Cook, a British package-holiday firm, has announced that it will allow holidaymakers to pre-book poolside loungers for £22 ($31) per person.
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The country's tourist board predicted the trip would boost the number of holidaymakers coming from Britain, which has slowed since the 2016 Brexit referendum.
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Security is holidaymakers' main consideration when choosing a destination, a research report released on Wednesday by Bournemouth University and travel search site Travelzoo said.
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The deployment seeks to avert delays and long queues at Barcelona's El Prat airport for holidaymakers arriving in record numbers to Spain this year.
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Meanwhile, travel groups TUI and Thomas Cook rose over 2 percent after the latter said British holidaymakers are favouring destinations outside the European Union.
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Travel websites aimed at LGBT holidaymakers indicate the gay scene remains vibrant on the resort island of Bali, the cornerstone of Indonesia's tourism industry.
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But if the pain felt by holidaymakers is immediate and plain, the impact of sterling's fall on inflation is slower and harder to discern.
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The waves caused a stage to collapse in the Tanjung Lesung beach resort while holidaymakers and locals were watching the Indonesian pop band Seventeen.
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The number of Chinese holidaymakers dropped by nearly 5% in the first six months of this year compared with the same period last year.
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Italy's chronically weak economic growth looks sure to suffer, with the tourist sector taking a huge hit from a wave of cancellations by holidaymakers.
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But its story ended ignominiously this week, with some holidaymakers locked in hotels by security guards demanding that they pay again for their rooms.
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L collapsed on Monday, stranding more than half a million holidaymakers around the globe and sparking the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history.
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With holidaymakers usually visiting neighboring countries such as the Caribbean islands and Mexico, few travelers realize the potential this enchanting country has to offer.
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Pedro is not his real name but his experiences are part of the reality holidaymakers will face here in Rio de Janeiro during the Olympics.
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What is more the holidaymakers who set up camp in residential blocks can be anti-social neighbours, particularly in famed party towns such as Barcelona.
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Peeling away even a tiny fraction of the 4m holidaymakers who visit nearby Bali each year could make a big difference to the country's fortunes.
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Tight housing markets in cities like Amsterdam are squeezed further when landlords withdraw properties from sale or long-term rental in favour of the holidaymakers.
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In July, for example, holidaymakers grounded a flight from Spain after the pilot casually acknowledged that a minor technical fault had caused its late departure.
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The streets around the popular Senegambia resort strip, normally packed with tourists, were mostly empty apart from a few holidaymakers withdrawing money from ATM machines.
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The Chadian tourism office is attempting to rebrand the country as a destination for holidaymakers, despite regional instability and its status as a failed state.
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These must-see attractions offer holidaymakers the opportunity to soak up history, see masterpieces, and ingest knowledge over time, from many artists, across the globe.
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CALL it pizza, pitta or fougasse: when Europe's holidaymakers head for the Mediterranean this summer, they will feast on some type of flatbread with condiments.
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Travel firm Thomas Cook said on Monday holidaymakers were delaying decisions on where to go and opting for non-EU destinations due to the impasse.
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A number of tourists were also caught up in the flooding, including 54 holidaymakers who were rescued from the Plum Judy private resort on Friday.
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In the Nordics, close to 35,000 holidaymakers were travelling at the time of Thomas Cook's announcement, which resulted in the cancellation of flights on Monday.
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The cyber attack forced the company to take all its systems offline, causing chaos for New Year holidaymakers and business travelers seeking online currency services.
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Thomas Cook collapsed on Monday, stranding more than half a million holidaymakers around the globe and sparking the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history.
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The attack had forced the company to take all its systems offline, causing havoc for New Year holidaymakers and business travellers seeking online currency services.
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During high season, the supermarket where I worked almost entirely depended on holidaymakers—including many young people who, away from parental control, liked binge drinking.
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The drop-off does not bode well as Turkey heads into the May-August high tourism season, when European holidaymakers usually flock to its southern beaches.
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Cheap tickets may be enough of a consideration to steer some holidaymakers to the affected airlines when they have a choice of routing their flights elsewhere.
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And with uncertainty looming over the outcome of the vote, holidaymakers may be pondering over when is the best time to buy currency for their vacations.
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Whereas platforms like TripAdvisor and Expedia show customers price comparisons for hotel bookings and flight fares, GetYourGuide only lists things for holidaymakers to do upon arrival.
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The fall in group traveler numbers was particularly significant for Taiwan because holidaymakers in tour groups tended to spend more days at different places in Taiwan.
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It will fly there three times a week, allowing Britons to join German, French and Belgian holidaymakers who have been going for the last two years.
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Abouyaaqoub is one of 12 suspects in Thursday's attack on Las Ramblas, Barcelona's most famous boulevard, in which a van plowed into holidaymakers, killing 13 people.
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THE Brenner Pass between Italy and Austria is an Alpine fantasy landscape of sheepfolds and snowy peaks, traversed by a highway crowded with holidaymakers and truckers.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Security is holidaymakers' main consideration when choosing a destination, a research report released on Wednesday by Bournemouth University and travel search site Travelzoo said.
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The cyber attack had forced the company to take all its systems offline, causing chaos for New Year holidaymakers and business travellers seeking online currency services.
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Nearly two-thirds of international holidaymakers surveyed by the bank said they were more interested in holidaying in the UK compared with this time last year.
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More than 1,000 holidaymakers are confined to their rooms in the four-star Hotel H10 Costa Adeje Palace on the island of Tenerife, reported The Local.
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This month, a cyber attack forced Travelex to take all its systems offline, causing trouble for New Year holidaymakers and business travellers seeking online currency services.
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In some offices the temptation must be to get in early to grab the best places, like holidaymakers placing towels on the poolside chairs before breakfast.
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The Interior Ministry decision accompanies the launch of a visa regime allowing holidaymakers from 49 states to visit one of the world's most closed-off countries.
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In some offices, the temptation must be to get in early to grab the best places, like holidaymakers placing towels on the poolside chairs before breakfast.
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This area being a backwater, as well as a place for holidaymakers, it may be the case that people feel entitled to shed that burden here.
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The thinking went that by stopping holidaymakers from snapping up new-builds, housing would become more affordable to people who live in St Ives all year round.
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LONDON — Sniffer dogs at Manchester Airport are being lambasted for finding cheese and sausages brought back by British holidaymakers, but failing to find any Class A drugs.
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At the very least, the unfortunate staff who have to deal with irate would-be holidaymakers need to be trained to deflect the worst of the rage.
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"Bookings to the USA in 2016 held steady with a slight year-on-year increase, Florida remains the most popular U.S. destination for U.K. holidaymakers, " he said.
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In the Mediterranean resort's restaurants and beach bars, holidaymakers and local residents have drunk their way through the first 2,000-bottle consignment of the turquoise-colored chardonnay.
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Holidaymakers are avoiding the island after scientists issued the highest alert level for the volcano, which killed more than 1,000 people when it last erupted in 1963.
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State Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp told both residents and tens of thousands of holidaymakers in the East Gippsland region to leave no later than Monday morning.
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Fanned by soaring temperatures, columns of fire and smoke blackened entire towns on Monday and Tuesday, forcing thousands of residents and holidaymakers to seek shelter on beaches.
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The fall in the value of the pound made the country a more attractive destination for foreign tourists while also encouraging British holidaymakers to stay at home.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson had little choice but to let the firm go under, even though the government is now on the hook for getting holidaymakers home.
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Britain's Civil Aviation Authority plans to repatriate at least 150,000 of the holidaymakers now stranded abroad in the biggest evacuation of Britons since the second world war.
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BDO highlighted a strong performance for lifestyle goods, where sales rose 3.1 percent year-on-year due to increasing numbers of "stay-at-home holidaymakers" and foreign tourists.
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Italy's Civil Protection department confirmed the death toll had reached 247 but the true number of people missing was uncertain given the thousands of holidaymakers in the area.
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McCall said security fears about some holiday destinations, such as Turkey and Morocco, would persist and European holidaymakers would likely favour beach trips closer to home this summer.
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Bulgaria has already announced it will forbid people from 15 countries from entering the country, as of Wednesday, and many foreign holidaymakers have cancelled reservations at Bulgarian resorts.
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The cruise line also provided additional rescheduling options in case some holidaymakers chose to postpone their travels until after the coronavirus becomes less of a public-health threat.
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In January, hundreds of holidaymakers had to be evacuated by boat from the beaches of the Royal National Park south of Sydney when they became trapped by bushfires.
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"Holidaymakers from Asia come here and fall in love with the place and start looking at real estate," said Anthony Hand, the managing director of developer Riverhill Growth.
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The judgement comes after hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers were stranded on Monday by the demise of the company, sparking the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history.
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In the U.K., Tui Group announced Tuesday it was looking at other markets to boost the number of holidaymakers at its hotels, after reporting a drop in net losses.
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British holidaymakers who are booked onto a package holiday have what is called Air Travel Organiser's Licence (ATOL) protection, ensuring they can return home and do not lose money.
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LISTVYANKA, Russia, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Winter is high season for tourism around Lake Baikal in Siberia, but the coronavirus outbreak has curtailed its main source of income: Chinese holidaymakers.
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Italy's Civil Protection said the death toll was at 247 but the number of missing is uncertain given the thousands of holidaymakers in the area for summer's final days.
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Most forecasters expect the pound to fall sharply if there is a vote to leave the EU on Thursday, which would weaken the spending power of British holidaymakers abroad.
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Unlike budget-conscious holidaymakers, who are willing to book a room in a stranger's home on Airbnb to save a few pounds, most business people travel on expense accounts.
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Founded in San Francisco in 2000, Airbnb, which matches people wishing to rent out all or part of their homes to temporary guests, has become a mainstay for holidaymakers.
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British holidaymakers who are booked onto a package holiday have what is called Air Travel Organiser's License (ATOL) protection, ensuring they can return home and do not lose money.
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Portugal has so far reported 78 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, far below the nearly 3,000 in neighbouring Spain, but the growing fear of contagion is scaring holidaymakers away.
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The world's largest travel firm, Thomas Cook, collapsed last month, stranding hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers around the globe and sparking the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history.
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New tourist visas have lured some holidaymakers, and temporary attractions like a safari, amusement park, and open-air theater have drawn over 8 million visitors to Riyadh since October.
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The audience of holidaymakers cheered her keenly, but she barely even solicited their support: "perhaps you will consider putting your cross in the box for the Christian Democrats," she mused.
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IHG has banked on corporate demand but has lately struggled to adapt to the changing travel landscape as business travellers and holidaymakers increasingly opt for cheaper accommodation offered by Airbnb.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Business travelers to France are in the sights of online rental marketplace Airbnb, according to a senior official on Thursday at the company best known for hosting holidaymakers.
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Now they send their newest and best, such as RCL's Quantum of the Seas, a megaship that can carry 4,180 holidaymakers, which has been based in Shanghai since June 2015.
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Thomas Cook evacuated 301 of its customers from a hotel in Egypt's popular Red Sea resort of Hurghada in August as a precautionary measure after two of its holidaymakers died.
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The youths, aged between 16 and 18, are alleged to have raped the woman in a hotel room in Ayia Napa, a resort on the southeastern coast popular with holidaymakers.
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In January, hundreds of holidaymakers had to be rescued in a boat evacuation from the beaches of the Royal National Park south of Sydney, when they became trapped by bushfires.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German airports expect a record number of passengers this year, the head of airports association ADV said in remarks published on Sunday, as airlines offer holidaymakers more destinations.
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Thomas Cook said it would boost capacity by 10 percent in its airline business for this summer in response to growing demand from holidaymakers in Germany and Britain for flights.
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Resembling a small hut on wagon wheels, the popular bathing machines were intended for holidaymakers — mostly women — who wanted to take a dip in the sea while protecting their modesty.
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Residents and holidaymakers in part of the Australian state of Victoria were urged to leave on Sunday ahead of what is expected to be a day of extreme fire danger.
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The bottom line: "Thomas Cook's collapse stranded hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers around the globe and sparked the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history," Alistair Smout of Reuters writes.
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The council predicts the number of Chinese visitors this year to be around last year's 11 million, as more Chinese holidaymakers are travelling to other countries in Asia, he said.
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Hong Kong's retail sales have sagged in the past two years due to a drop in the number of tourists, though they picked up in July as inbound holidaymakers rose.
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That is a sore point for package-holiday firms, who feel that they are paying £2.50 per passenger into ATOL for a service that non-package holidaymakers get for free.
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But its story ended ignominiously with holidaymakers being locked in a Tunisian hotel by security guards demanding that they pay again for their rooms if they wanted to go home.
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Many passengers will fear a repeat of the long queues seen at Heathrow Airport in August, when some holidaymakers waited over two-and-a-half hours to get through passport control.
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NICE/MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Firefighters battled wind-whipped infernos along the French Riviera coast on Tuesday as the flames torched vegetation on hills overlooking glitzy Mediterranean resorts thronged by summer holidaymakers.
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The walkout forced many holidaymakers to seek alternative ways of traveling in a country where tourism is a pivotal industry for an economy which is slowly emerging from a debt crisis.
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BERLIN, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Lufthansa's budget airline Eurowings will offer steep discounts to holidaymakers left stranded abroad after insolvent Air Berlin stops flying next week, Eurowings' chief executive said on Friday.
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Birmingham, Alabama, and Birmingham in the UK don't sound the same when said aloud, but they do look the same — and that was a problem for two British would-be holidaymakers.
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It has long been a popular well-connected destination for corporate travellers as well as holidaymakers, many of whom use it as a stopover to other popular spots in Southeast Asia.
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This is a significant amount when you take into consideration that domestic holidaymakers account for 80 percent of the total tourism in Germany, according to the German National Tourist Board (GNTB).
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LONDON (Reuters) - British tour operator Thomas Cook said it had found a high level of e-coli and staphylococcus bacteria at the hotel in Egypt where two holidaymakers died last month.
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The conglomerate's 11 billion yuan ($1.74 billion) investment in China's southernmost province is in line with the central government's desire to further boost tourism in Hainan, already popular among Chinese holidaymakers.
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Summer bookings to Turkey by German holidaymakers have doubled from a year ago, but remain far from the levels seen a few years ago, German market researcher GfK said last month.
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Police in Cambrils subsequently shot dead five men wearing fake explosive belts after they charged the Audi into holidaymakers and, after it turned over, got out and began stabbing at people.
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After the British foreign office raised its level of alert to advise against all but essential travel, UK tour operator Thomas Cook started evacuating nearly 1,000 holidaymakers by air on Wednesday.
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Plenty of holidaymakers are still drawn in by the strenuous charms of spelunking, white-water rafting and biking the Great Allegheny Passage, a 150-mile rail trail that almost grazes Fallingwater.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Fed up with holidaymakers being divebombed by greedy seagulls in "horror movie" scenes, one British costal area is fighting back by making it an offence to feed the birds.
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An easy weekend getaway for sun-seeking Brits, Germans and Scandinavians, the Mediterranean island and its capital, Palma, are sometimes derided as a cheap package-tour destination for hard-partying holidaymakers.
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Into the vacuum have come more and more holidaymakers from Russia, Asia and the Middle East, who have found Turkey — with its battered economy and cultural bounty — a newly affordable destination.
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Lufthansa said it had organised special flights for the coming days, to return 215,000-4,000 cruise passengers and holidaymakers to Germany, many of them from the Canary Islands and the Caribbean.
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Kangaroo Valley, a wildlife haven 150 kms (93 miles) south of Sydney, was badly affected as video of blazing forests went global and scared away holidaymakers both from home and abroad.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison said 169 Australians had asked for evacuation, though those holidaymakers would need to be symptom-free when checked by Japanese health officials prior to boarding the plane.
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Authorities have said conditions could be worse than New Year's Eve, when fires burnt massive tracts of bushland and forced thousands of residents and summer holidaymakers to seek refuge on beaches.
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And even on the Lido, Italian holidaymakers are content to stretch out on the beach without bothering to stroll up the street to the Palazzo del Cinema, the event's main headquarters.
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Thomas Cook endured a tough 2018 when a heatwave in northern Europe deterred holidaymakers from booking last-minute deals, leading to two profit warnings and talk of a need to raise funds.
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The resort began to lure high-rolling holidaymakers and the artists who helped empty their wallets in the 1930s, when Nevada became the first state to legalise gambling and liberalise divorce laws.
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Baier said that a sustained weakening of the pound would hit purchasing power, making holidays abroad more expensive, but he doubted whether that would dampen the love of travel among British holidaymakers.
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More foreigners visited Spain than ever before in 2015, official figures showed on Friday, as militant violence in countries such Egypt and Tunisia encouraged European holidaymakers to seek sun nearer to home.
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On the beaches of Sanya on the southern island of Hainan, China's new Hawaii, crowds of holidaymakers in tropical shirts dabble awkwardly at the water's edge; few actually plunge into the sea.
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Tourist visits in 2017 were up 23 percent on the previous year to 7 million, as hotels filled with Russian and Algerian visitors, but operators say they spend less than European holidaymakers.
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Almost 20123 of the victims died in Amatrice, which is famed for a local pasta dish and was full of holidaymakers ahead of its 50th annual food festival, set for this weekend.
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LISBON, March 17 (Reuters) - Holidaymakers at a hotel on the Portuguese island of Madeira were being isolated after a Dutch guest tested positive for the coronavirus, the regional government said on Tuesday.
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The hack has severely hurt British banks' ability to sell foreign currencies to holidaymakers, with a majority of high street lenders relying on Travelex to provide forex online and in their branches.
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Sanz said there were still around 5,000 to 6,000 unlicensed tourist flats in Barcelona, the capital of the Catalonia region on Spain's northeastern Mediterranean coast which attracts millions of holidaymakers every summer.
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The world's oldest travel firm went out of business on Monday, stranding some 600,213 holidaymakers around the globe and sparking the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history involving some 150,000 travelers.
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Spain received a record number of over 68 million tourists last year as militant violence in countries such as Egypt and Tunisia encouraged European holidaymakers to choose traditional destinations nearer to home.
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BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Holidaymakers faced delays and long queues at Barcelona's El Prat airport on Friday, the first day of strikes by security staff that may be stepped up in coming weeks.
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A cooling economy means holidaymakers in the world's second-largest economy, who spent $261 billion overseas last year, have stayed closer to home this year, providing a boon for domestic tourism operators.
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"If Thomas Cook goes into administration it will cost the taxpayer as much to repatriate holidaymakers as it would cost to save Thomas Cook," General Secretary Brian Strutton said in a statement.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Holidaymakers should boycott Cyprus after a court found a British woman guilty of lying about being gang-raped by a group of Israeli youths, the woman's mother said on Thursday.
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AS WESTERN HOLIDAYMAKERS escape their daily grind and head to the beach this summer, a concern is likely to resurface—literally, if it washes up on the pristine sand in front of them.
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Whitbread said it expects to open 4,000-4,500 Premier Inn rooms in the U.K. and Germany in 2019, aiming to cash in on the trend of holidaymakers and business travelers towards cheaper accommodation.
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Dillon Mangs, an expatriate resident of Labadie whom Royal Caribbean contracts to run shore excursions, says he tries to showcase Haiti's culture without dampening holidaymakers' spirits by exposing them to too much reality.
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But services were stopped to both destinations in 2015 after the bombing of a Russian airliner over the Sinai peninsula and the mass shooting of mostly British holidaymakers on a beach at Sousse.
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Natural beauty abounds up and down the entire coast, where the city of Split makes an excellent launch point for sailing to breathtaking islands like Vis and Hvar, favored by yachters and holidaymakers.
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A tweet posted on the travel booking website First Choice captured the trepidation among holidaymakers, while some airlines and travel agents said they would waive cancellation charges for people scheduled to travel imminently.
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In 1996, sensing the region's potential for international tourism — the beaches of Puglia remained relatively undiscovered by the Continent's hordes of holidaymakers — his mother, Marisa, decided to turn the home into a hotel.
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Analysts say it was one of several factors that led to the 178-year old travel company's demise, which has left 150,000 UK holidaymakers stranded abroad and cost thousands of employees their jobs.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel's government last month granted a 150 million-euro loan to prevent Air Berlin's planes from being grounded, which would have stranded holidaymakers abroad and put around 8,000 jobs at risk.
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LONDON, Sept 2552 (Reuters) - Thomas Cook, the world's oldest travel firm, collapsed on Monday, stranding hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers around the globe and sparking the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history.
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The number of holidaymakers at home on the sixth day of the national day holiday - one of the world's biggest mass movements of people - rose 12.3 percent from a year ago, Xinhua said.
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Warning signs deck promenade railings from Scarborough to Broadstairs and beyond but now research from the University of Exeter has suggested an easy way for holidaymakers to deter the gulls - just stare at them.
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Spotting an opportunity to capitalize on Asia's growing tourism industry, he set up the platform in 2014 with two fellow co-founders to handle holidaymakers' in-destination bookings, from transport to activities and experiences.
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But annexation has cut the peninsula off from Ukrainian holidaymakers who mainly arrived by train, and their numbers have not been made up by Russian tourists, who must travel by air to get there.
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Unlike budget-conscious holidaymakers, who are willing to book a room in a stranger's home on Airbnb to save a few pounds, most businesspeople are travelling on expense accounts and happy to splash out.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia is allowing foreign men and women to rent hotel rooms together without proving they are related, after the conservative Muslim kingdom launched a new tourist visa regime to attract holidaymakers.
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Tourists have gradually returned as security has been stepped up, and Tunisia attracted a record 8.3 million visitors in 2018 as hotels were filled with holidaymakers from Algeria, Russia and other parts of Europe.
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The jump is partly attributable to large numbers of holidaymakers returning from winter ski outings in northern Italy, Switzerland and Austria, many of whom were tested immediately on their return, authorities in Hamburg said.
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Australia deployed military ships and aircraft Wednesday to help communities ravaged by apocalyptic wildfires that have left at least 17 people dead nationwide and sent thousands of residents and holidaymakers fleeing to the shoreline.
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Rome Journal ROME — On a sweltering Monday afternoon, a beautiful day for a swim, Mario Messina noticed some holidaymakers teetering dangerously close to the turquoise waters and sounded five short blasts of his whistle.
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Holidaymakers turned their backs on formerly popular Turkey in 13 after a series of bombings and a failed coup, forcing travel companies to shift customers to Spanish and Portuguese destinations in the western Mediterranean.
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The ONS said visits from the United States were 29 percent higher at 1.47 million in the 3 months to June with little evidence that terror attacks in London or Manchester had deterred holidaymakers.
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NUTELLA AND POT-BELLIES Far from being offended by the intrusion of a politician, selfie-seeking holidaymakers have swarmed to the attraction, and Salvini is always available to press the flesh and swap high-fives.
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AROSA, Switzerland (Reuters) - The prospect of searing heatwaves driving holidaymakers to cool mountains and children asking grandparents about their memories of snow is focusing minds in Alpine ski resorts on the implications of climate change.
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Last year, the number of tourists visiting Tunisia rose by some 23 percent as hotels filled beds with Russian and Algerian visitors, but operators say they spend less than Western European holidaymakers during their stay.
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The fires - the deadliest in the country's history - overwhelmed the resort town of Mati at the height of the tourist season, forcing residents and holidaymakers to run for their lives and plunge into the sea.
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IHG relies heavily on corporate demand but has been slow to adjust to the changing travel landscape as holidaymakers and business travellers increasingly opt for cheaper accommodation offered by the likes of Airbnb and HomeAway.
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The tumult comes during the peak tourism season in Maldives, which earned $2.7 billion in 2016 from holidaymakers visiting luxury hotels and scuba diving resorts scattered round the myriad tiny tropical islands and coral atolls.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British holidaymakers are favoring destinations outside the European Union after repeated delays to Brexit discouraged travelers from booking early and prompted them to look further afield, travel firm Thomas Cook said on Monday.
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But late on July 14th, as crowds in cities across France celebrated Bastille Day with fireworks displays and concerts, the next attack did come—this time in Nice, a southern coastal town packed with holidaymakers.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - A power outage that left holidaymakers on the island of Hydra, a popular destination not far from Athens, without electricity and water for over 24 hours has been restored, authorities said on Monday.
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Two more of the group of 10 Italian holidaymakers tested positive for the infection, but tests on the rest of the group have returned negative, the official, Maria Teresa Cruz Oval, told a news conference.
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Authorities are worried the fires could turn out to be worse than New Year's Eve, when they burnt massive tracts of bushland and forced thousands of residents and summer holidaymakers to seek refuge on beaches.
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National parks have been closed and people urged earlier this week to evacuate large parts of NSW's south coast and Victoria's north eastern regions, magnets for holidaymakers at the peak of Australia's summer school holidays.
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The Travelex hack caused chaos for holidaymakers earlier this month and has left the majority of British high street banks, which use the company to provide travel money to customers, unable to take online orders.
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She said ITV had seen a jump in demand for its ad-free ITV Hub+, driven by holidaymakers in Europe who wanted to see World Cup games or Love Island, but it could go further.
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MAJOR CONSEQUENCES The corporate collapse has the potential to spark chaotic scenes around the world, with holidaymakers stuck in hotels that have not been paid in locations as far afield as Goa, Gambia and Greece.
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Lured by cheaper airfares and a lower Aussie dollar, holidaymakers from China are increasing at double the rate of the tourism sector, smashing forecasts and tripling the spending of next source of visitors, the United States.
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Having an endless stream of tourists on the other side of a wall, getting up to the kind of noisy, late-night shenanigans to which holidaymakers are prone, is not a recipe for a peaceful life.
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The European Commission cautioned member states last week against erecting roadblocks or even outright bans on the "sharing economy", which has also made home rentals popular among holidaymakers, by enforcing decades or even centuries-old laws.
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Tourism has been a winner from the 2016 Brexit vote which pushed down the value of the pound, making Britain a more attractive holiday destination for foreign tourists and encouraging British holidaymakers to stay at home.
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Hours after the Barcelona attack, police shot dead five men wearing fake explosive belts in the resort of Cambrils, further down the coast, after they rammed holidaymakers with a car and stabbed others, killing one woman.
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German market researcher GfK said last week that German holidaymakers' bookings for trips to Egypt in the upcoming summer season were up 91 percent from last year, but were still 23 percent below pre-uprising levels.
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Seeking to alleviate worries about stranded holidaymakers, Taiwan's China policy-making Mainland Affairs Council said there were already 418 extra flights added for the holidays in addition to 586 regularly scheduled flights, serving 50 Chinese destinations.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British foreign minister Dominic Raab said the government had contingency plans in case talks to rescue travel company Thomas Cook fail, and sought to reassure holidaymakers that they will not end up stuck overseas.
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There are numerous videos on YouTube showing holidaymakers scrambling and sprinting to the pool areas of various hotels, sometimes at the break of dawn, to put their towels on sunbeds in a bid to reserve them.
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TUNIS (Reuters) - The number of foreign tourists in Tunisia has risen by 24 percent so far this year, official data showed, indicating that a vital industry crippled two years ago by Islamist attacks on holidaymakers is recovering.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spanish authorities came under fire on Friday from shocked Barcelona residents and holidaymakers for not better protecting the city's most famous thoroughfare against a deadly van attack in the heart of a packed tourist haunt.
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But it added that any holidaymakers who had taken part in meetings abroad of organizations banned in Turkey risked being detained, as did Germans who made, or endorsed, statements on social media critical of the Turkish government.
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Some airport exchange bureaus are already offering holidaymakers less than a euro per pound and the options markets companies use to insure against currency moves have flipped from positive on sterling in mid-April to universally negative.
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People who travel for business may not be as price-conscious as holidaymakers—after all, they are often not spending their own money—and so may just accept the much-higher fares when schlepping around the country.
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But the bad news for UK holidaymakers heading to Disneyland this summer, and for importers of globally traded goods priced in dollars, is that there seems to be no escaping further losses against the greenback this year.
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TUI's operation of the long-haul Boeing Dreamliner 787 aircraft, of which it over 10, has also given it an advantage over Thomas Cook, in an environment where holidaymakers are going further afield to find winter sun.
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Under the government's new campaign, the newspaper said that small businesses will be given information about how to make customs declarations while British holidaymakers will be told to buy health insurance in case current reciprocal deals end.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Three people caught in bushfires in Australia's southeast are feared dead, authorities said on Tuesday, as huge fire fronts cause widespread devastation and forced thousands of holidaymakers to flee to beaches to escape the flames.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Up to 15,000 holidaymakers are stranded on the island of Cyprus after the collapse of British travel firm Thomas Cook, saddling hotels with millions in potential losses, the deputy minister of tourism said on Monday.
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After months of sparring between the parties, this week Barcelona levied fines of €600,000 ($636,000) each on Airbnb and HomeAway, which it says have been offering to rent properties that do not have a tourist licence to holidaymakers.
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The government pledged a 150 million euro ($179 million) loan to prevent Air Berlin's planes from immediately being grounded, which would have stranded holidaymakers abroad and put around 8,000 jobs at risk only weeks before a national election.
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A rise in terrorism since 2100 is also a worry, even if tourists have not been directly targeted (as they were in the Bali bombing of 2002, when jihadists murdered over 200 people, most of them foreign holidaymakers).
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that his country was eager to work with Egypt to boost airline security, three years after a bomb attack downed a Russian plane, killing more than 200 holidaymakers.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British tour operator Thomas Cook said on Wednesday it had not yet seen the full report from Egypt's public prosecutor on the deaths of two British holidaymakers in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada last month.
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The Chinese market has proved a difficult proposition for foreign travel groups and TUI has previously set up a joint venture with little success, but Joussen said that an increasing number of Chinese holidaymakers is changing the landscape.
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LONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - British foreign minister Dominic Raab said the government had contingency plans in case talks to rescue travel company Thomas Cook fail, and sought to reassure holidaymakers that they will not end up stuck overseas.
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Egypt hopes that its investments in airport security and the cheaper Egyptian pound will help lure back more tourists, despite a series of militant attacks, including the fatal stabbing of two German holidaymakers at a seaside resort in July.
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Tourism provides much needed jobs and foreign currency in Tunisia, but it has struggled since the attack in the resort of Sousse killed 39 holidaymakers and an earlier one at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis left 21 dead.
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At 7.30 on Tuesday morning the platform at the airport train station was jammed with commuters trying to get to jobs in Malmo—many Danes commute in that direction, too— and with Swedish holidaymakers returning home via Copenhagen airport.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Visits to Britain by North Americans surged at the start of this year as tourists took advantage of the weakened pound, which may be forcing British holidaymakers to stay closer to home, official data showed on Friday.
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The British travel group had been sending 350,000-450,000 tourists a year to Bulgaria, about 63% of all foreign holidaymakers to its Black Sea resorts which are popular due to their relatively low prices and wide range of activities.
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Executives at the ITB travel trade fair in Berlin said many holidaymakers were in wait-and-see mode as uncertainty over visas, insurance and whether they will need an international license to drive in EU countries weighed on sentiment.
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AMED, Indonesia (Reuters) - A Balinese town once bustling with holidaymakers has almost emptied of tourists after warnings that nearby Mount Agung could erupt at any time - a snapshot of the growing cost the rumbling volcano poses to Indonesia's economy.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Holidaymakers trapped by bushfire had to be rescued by boat from a national park south of Australia's largest city of Sydney and 200 people were evacuated by firefighters as a heatwave struck the eastern seaboard on Saturday.
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BANJUL, Jan 18 (Reuters) - British tour operator Thomas Cook started evacuating nearly 1,000 holidaymakers from Gambia on Wednesday after President Yahya Jammeh declared a state of emergency on his final day in office, increasing the chances of civil unrest.
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Exposure to Turkey, the group's second most popular destination in 2015, has dragged on Thomas Cook this year as holidaymakers have been put off by an attack on tourists in Istanbul in January and a failed coup in July.
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ATHENS, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Up to 15,000 holidaymakers are stranded on the island of Cyprus after the collapse of British travel firm Thomas Cook, saddling hotels with millions in potential losses, the deputy minister of tourism said on Monday.
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"Extinction Rebellion will not be carrying out any actions at Heathrow Airport in June or July this year, aimed at causing disruption to holidaymakers and those planning to use the airport in this period," the group said in a statement.
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Menne said that sector-wide capacity cuts are unlikely to be deep enough to compensate for the falling passenger yields but expects a pick-up in bookings as holidaymakers make belated travel decisions as the summer holiday season draws closer.
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He added that an estimated 50 percent of cash issued by the Bundesbank ends up outside the euro zone, brought by migrant workers, German holidaymakers and citizens from high-inflation countries seeking a way to preserve the value of their money.
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An upgrade from SEB to "buy" put Dometic shares to the top of the STOXX 600 index, while Travel groups TUI and Thomas Cook rose over 2 percent after the latter said British holidaymakers are favouring destinations outside the European Union.
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French refineries have been hit by strikes over the past few weeks causing shutdowns, it has become unprofitable to ship diesel to Europe from the United States and demand typically climbs in the summer months as holidaymakers take to their cars.
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ATHENS, Aug 27 (Reuters) - A power outage has left holidaymakers on the Greek island of Hydra without electricity and water since Sunday at the height of the tourism season, authorities said on Monday as they worked to repair the problem.
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It said one dog trained to find smuggled animal products had made "multiple accurate detections, but most were of small amounts of cheese or sausages, wrongly brought back by returning British holidaymakers and posing minimal risk to UK public health".
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The gunman killed his victims, mostly British holidaymakers, on a beach in the resort of Sousse on June 26, 5.53, in an attack that dealt a heavy blow to Tunisia's tourism industry, which accounts for eight percent of national output.
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The "Golden Week" break, which starts on Saturday in one of the world's biggest mass movements by plane, boat and train, offers an important snapshot of Chinese holidaymakers and their changing tastes and habits as economic growth at home stutters.
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The number of mainland holidaymakers going on cruises—a comparatively fuss-free way of travelling abroad for the first time—has been growing by around 80% a year, and is expected to keep doing so despite China's slowing growth rate.
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The talks come as the timeshare industry seeks to improve its occupancy rates and shed its reputation of locking customers into complex contracts they do not understand, in the hope of becoming a more popular alternative for many U.S. holidaymakers.
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Out of international holidaymakers, 31 percent said they were more likely to visit Britain than before the referendum last June, although about a half of those asked said the vote had no impact on their likelihood of making a trip.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Tourist visas for Saudi Arabia are now available online and on arrival to holidaymakers who already hold a visa from the United States, Britain or the EU's Schengen zone, expanding eligibility beyond an initial list of 49 countries.
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"Sunbed wars" have become an almost legendary part of the European summer holiday experience with stereotypes abounding about which nation's holidaymakers are the worst culprits — the British, Irish and Germans are often accused of being the worst sun lounger hoggers.
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The company, which sends holidaymakers to about 3,000 hotels across destinations from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean and elsewhere, said it would also announce further new openings, which would take the company's portfolio to 200 hotels with about 40,000 rooms.
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Yet for all the excitement it is generating within European Union institutions, opt-outs secured by major telecoms firms and member states' refusal to give up their lucrative national airwaves may leave many holidaymakers disappointed this summer - and facing higher bills at home.
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LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - TUI Group, Europe's largest tour operator, said it expected 2015/16 core profit to rise by between 12 and 13 percent, upgrading an earlier forecast for growth of at least 10 percent, after strong demand from British holidaymakers.
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Fankhauser said that British holidaymakers had delayed booking in the run-up to March 29, when Britain had been due to leave the European Union, but there had not been a pick-up since that date was pushed back to October 31.
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LONDON/CAIRO (Reuters) - Britain's Thomas Cook said it was evacuating all 301 of its customers from a hotel in Egypt's popular Red Sea resort of Hurghada as a precautionary measure after two of its holidaymakers died in circumstances it said were still unclear.
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Reeves was holding a hearing with representatives of EY - formerly known as Ernst & Young - and PwC, who audited Thomas Cook in the years before it collapsed in September, triggering the repatriation of 150,000 British holidaymakers - the biggest in peace time for Britain.
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MADRID (Reuters) - About 1,000 people were unable to return home in Gran Canaria on Sunday after several towns were evacuated as a vast wildfire spread towards a National Park and an area popular with holidaymakers on the Spanish island, emergency services said.
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After a bomb brought down a Metrojet plane carrying Russian holidaymakers home from the Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Sheikh in October 2015, killing all 224 people on board, Egyptian officials initially denied widely held suspicions that a bomb caused the crash.
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The local currency weakened to 370 against the dollar on the black market on Thursday, compared with 364 per dollar last week, on the back of surging demand for the dollar by summer holidaymakers and parents paying school fees for their children abroad.
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RIYADH, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Tourist visas for Saudi Arabia are now available online and on arrival to holidaymakers who already hold a visa from the United States, Britain or the EU's Schengen zone, expanding eligibility beyond an initial list of 49 countries.
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Looking to secure future growth, the company said it would launch up to 15 new hotels by next summer under the name "Cook's Club", a cheaper version of its up-market Casa Cook business, to attract style-conscious holidaymakers on a lower budget.
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Reeves was holding a hearing with representatives of EY - formerly known as Ernst & Young - and PwC, who audited Thomas Cook in the years before it collapsed in September, triggering the repatriation of 150,000 British holidaymakers - the biggest in peace time for Britain.
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The strip, Avenida Principal, is filled from morning to well after midnight with holidaymakers; in La Pedrera, you'll encounter everyone from groups of 20-somethings staying at campsites and forming drum circles to parents herding gaggles of young children down to the beach.
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BREXIT BLUES Fankhauser said that British holidaymakers had delayed booking in the run-up to March 29, when Britain had been due to leave the European Union, but there had not been a pick-up since that date was pushed back to October 31.
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SUVA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On a muddy beach, under the glaring Fijian sun, villagers living on the banks of Laucala Bay in the capital of Suva carefully plant neat rows of mangrove seedlings as holidaymakers and locals swim in the ocean in the distance.
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In September he lent aircraft to Britain's aviation authority to help repatriate thousands of holidaymakers after the collapse of Monarch Airlines, the country's fifth-biggest carrier, and in October Qatar made a deal with the EU on closer co-operation on regulation and safety.
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Guests will have to stay in the hotel for 14 days, authorities said on Wednesday, to avoid any risk of spreading the disease - their experience reminiscent of the holidaymakers on board the Diamond Princess cruiseliner that spent two weeks in quarantine off Yokohama, near Tokyo.
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"It goes without saying that we could see demand for trans-Atlantic routes drop, as holidaymakers in both the U.S. and Europe don't feel safe enough to travel," said Cecilia Minges, a spokeswoman for AirHelp, a company that helps consumers with compensation claims against airlines.
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Nearly a third of UK holidaymakers expected to spend more of their holiday time in Britain this year, and 38 percent of those who cited cost as a factor said that the weaker pound had made holidays in the UK preferable to going abroad.
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Guests will have to stay in the hotel for 14 days, authorities said on Wednesday, to avoid any risk of spreading the disease - their experience reminiscent of the holidaymakers on board the Diamond Princess cruiseliner that spent two weeks in quarantine off Yokohama, near Tokyo.
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Thomas Cook had put its airline business up for sale and closed stores this year, after a heat-wave in northern Europe last summer deterred holidaymakers from booking last-minute deals, leading to two profit warnings and speculation among investors that it might need to raise funds.
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Thomas Cook had put its airline business up for sale and closed stores this year, after a heat-wave in northern Europe last summer deterred holidaymakers from booking last-minute deals, leading to two profit warnings and speculation among investors that it might need to raise funds.
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The firm has put its airline business up for sale and closed stores this year, after a heatwave in northern Europe last summer deterred holidaymakers from booking last-minute deals, leading to two profit warnings and speculation among investors that it might need to raise funds.
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Erudite and enthusiastic, Mr de Hamel is not so star-struck that he cannot be critical: a famous illustration in the "Book of Kells" is "dreadfully ugly"; a naked Adam and Eve look "knobbly-kneed" and "brightly pink like newly arrived English holidaymakers on Spanish beaches".
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At the peak of the summer holiday period, tens of thousands of holidaymakers were urged to leave national parks and tourist areas on the NSW south coast and eastern areas of Victoria before a return of temperatures above 40C (104 F) and strong winds on Saturday.
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Thomas Cook also had to deal with negative headlines in August when it was forced to move 13 customers from a hotel in Egypt following the death of two holidaymakers, but Fankhauser said the incident in Egypt was not linked to the profit warning on Monday.
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Consequently, as the pound weakens, Geerts suggested that "staycations" would become increasingly popular in the U.K., while Airbnb, budget hotels and all-inclusive package holidays would become more attractive when travelling overseas, as it allows U.K. holidaymakers to garner better insight on what they will spend when on holiday.
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The report comes after Thomas Cook put its airline business up for sale and closed stores in February, after a heatwave in northern Europe last summer deterred holidaymakers from booking last-minute deals, leading to two profit warnings and speculation among investors that it might need to raise funds.
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Since she'd first had any clear idea of who she was, as a teen-ager, Serena had seen herself as set apart like this: dangerous and intriguing, her black clothing outlined against the summer pastels of sloppy holidaymakers in their flip-flops, or the dowdy decency of her own family.
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The industry, a crucial source of hard currency, has struggled since then with years of political turmoil and mass protests, as well as the fallout from the crash of a jet taking Russian holidaymakers home from the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in October 2015, in which 224 people died.
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The condition of the bridge, and its ability to sustain large increases in both the intensity and weight of traffic over the years, have been a focus of public debate since Tuesday's collapse, when an 80-metre span gave way at lunchtime as cars packed with holidaymakers as well as trucks streamed across it.
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"WHO reports that most countries in the European region are well prepared...however, countries in Southern Europe, including France and Italy, need to be especially vigilant and it's important that holidaymakers follow public health advice while abroad, " Read: Singapore confirms its first imported case of Zika As of May 11 2016, 58 countries and territories are reporting continuing mosquito transmission of the Zika virus.
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Morocco, too, was perilous, it turned out, but not in the way I thought it might be in the depths of my anxiety: One of our hotel rooms was burglarized by a chambermaid; I tore a tendon in my calf playing tennis; my wife and daughter held an allegedly defanged cobra in Jemaa el Fna, the main market square in Marrakesh; and I acquired a Category 5 hangover from Churchill's signature cocktail, which it turns out is geared more toward functioning alcoholics than holidaymakers.
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So here's a quick refresher: Slovenia is the birthplace of the hipster philosopher Slavoj Zizek and the American first lady; Croatia, a World Cup finalist with distinctive checkerboard jerseys, pulls holidaymakers to the Adriatic coast; European yachts are sailing further south, to little Montenegro, which just had a moment in the news; Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, is on a museum upswing; Sarajevo, at the heart of Bosnia, is a hub of cafe culture; Macedonia has finally settled its naming dispute and is knocking on the door of the European Union; and Kosovo is the ancestral home of Europe's biggest pop star of the moment, Dua Lipa.
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