World Tourism

LISBON — Wildfires are raging in Portugal for the sixth day with an estimated 186 fires burning on the mainland. Meanwhile more wildfires are burning in southern France, sparing the city of Marseille but causing significant damage to two other towns. In Portugal, the out-of-control blazes have killed at least …

LAS VEGAS — Virtuoso is fielding more inquiries than ever from travel agents looking to join its network. At its annual Virtuoso Travel Week event here in Las Vegas this week, the luxury retail travel group reported an 11% increase in the number of advisor inquiries for affiliation, inquiries that …

TORONTO — Niagara has long been a popular day-trip option from Toronto, a mere 90-minute drive without traffic. But those 90 minutes will soon be cut down to 12 thanks to Greater Toronto Airways, which will start offering daily flights between the two cities. According to CBC News, Greater Toronto …

LONDON — Workers on Eurostar trains that operate across the English Channel are planning seven days of strikes over two weekends in August – a peak summer tourist time. The Rail, Maritime and Transport union says its members will stop work for four days starting Friday, Aug. 12. A second …

BUENOS AIRES — They say love finds you when you least expect it, and for one flight attendant this couldn’t be more true. According to The Telegraph, Olivia Sievers often travels from Germany to Argentina for work. It was in Buenos Aires earlier this year where she first encountered a …

ORLANDO, Fla. — Workers are building a stone wall around a Walt Disney World lake where an alligator killed a toddler earlier this summer. Disney officials told the Orlando Sentinel for a story published Sunday that the barrier wall is part of the new security plan following the death of …

NEW YORK – Nowhere in the United States is renting a car over the summer more costly than in Philadelphia. That conclusion is the result of a new survey from CheapCarRental.net. In determining the rankings, the survey compared 50 main destinations in the USA based on their car rental rates …

LONDON — Activists linked to the U.S.-based group Black Lives Matter blocked a road Friday leading to London’s Heathrow Airport and held protests in other British cities. Organizer Joshua Virasami told the BBC that the movement – founded to protest the killings of black people by American police – was …

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia’s government says visitors to the famed Angkor temple complex will have to pay almost twice as much for admission starting next February. The government said in a statement Friday that the price of single-day tickets will rise from $20 currently to $37. A three-day pass …

LONDON — A Norwegian teenager of Somali origin is suspected of going on a knife rampage through London’s tourist hub of Russell Square, killing an American woman and injuring five other people, police said Thursday. The London force sent extra officers into the city streets and mobilized counterterror detectives, but …