A Dutch couple taken hostage Tuesday by armed tribesmen in Yemen said their kidnappers were treating them well, including offering them lunch and tea, after brazenly hijacking their car in the capital.
Tourists are known for acting silly, but licking the tuna?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid defended himself Wednesday over a joking comment that tourists to the Capitol sometimes smell.
Overseas shoppers who once arrived in the U.S. with empty suitcases to take back their holiday loot may decide to stay home this year amid high-priced airline tickets, unfavorable exchange rates and lingering economic woes.
Two Austrians kidnapped in Tunisia by an al-Qaida affiliate have been released, ending an eight-month ordeal and anguished diplomatic attempts to win their freedom.
A man was arrested Friday as a suspect in the slaying of a Swedish couple who were found hacked to death in their home in a tourist district of the normally placid southern Caribbean island of Tobago.
Five Germans and five Italians who were part of a 19-member tourist group kidnapped in Egypt and taken by their abductors on a dash through the Sahara Desert returned to their home countries Tuesday.
The end of a 10-day ordeal for the tour group came far out in the desolate Sahara, when kidnappers lined up some of the captives and cocked their weapons. "At that moment, we thought we were dead," said one Egyptian guide.
A rescue mission has freed 19 European and Egyptian hostages and killed several of the kidnappers who snatched the tour group more than a week ago during a desert safari, Egypt's state news agency and television reported.
A kidnapped 19-member European tour group was freed Monday and the 11 tourists and eight Egyptian guides and drivers are in good health and on their way to Cairo, Egypt's state news agency and television reported.
The Italian government was considering ordering more troops on to the streets Tuesday after two brutal attacks on tourists within three days during an already tough crackdown against crime, according to a newspaper report.
The latest deadline set by an al-Qaida affiliate for authorities to release jailed militants in return for two Austrian tourists kidnapped in North Africa expired Sunday with no word on the fate of the hostages.
A man accused of killing four French tourists escaped from a courthouse after an interrogation session Wednesday, tricking guards who believed he was inside a restroom, a courthouse official and a witness said.
When it comes to travel, there’s adventurous and then there’s just plain asinine.
An al-Qaida affiliate holding two Austrian tourists as hostages extended a deadline for its demands to be met by another two weeks, describing it Monday as the final extension.
The Islamist militant group that kidnapped two Austrians last month in Tunisia is extending the deadline for the meeting of its demands by a week, according to a statement posted on militant Web sites Monday.
Four Belgian tourists held hostage by protesting farmers were released late Saturday after security forces in boats and helicopters located the group in Guatemala's eastern jungle, officials said.
Al-Qaida's branch for North Africa on Thursday set a three-day deadline to meet conditions for the release of two Austrian tourists it claimed to have kidnapped in Tunisia last month.
Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa claimed responsibility for kidnapping two Austrian tourists last month in Tunisia in an audio recording aired Monday on Al-Jazeera television.
Hawaii's verdant volcanic peaks and crystalline waters have made tourism the state's biggest industry. But not all Hawaii residents are thrilled by the millions who flock to their shores.
Four men have been charged with abetting terrorists after four French tourists were gunned down on a roadside last month, justice officials said Sunday.
Two Mauritanians suspected of involvement in the killings of four French tourists were arrested Friday and officials said they are believed to belong to an Algerian-based terror cell affiliated with al-Qaida.
Authorities arrested a man once convicted of terror links and eight others suspected of aiding a group that gunned down a French family last month, justice officials said Monday.
Airlines have nickel-and-dimed their way through what feels like dozens of fees over the last few years. Fees for meals. Fees for water. Fuel surcharges. Fees for paper tickets. Fees for blankets and pillows. And of course a fee for each bag you'd like to take with you.
Legacy carriers have also gotten in on the act. US Airways is offering three-day sales of $39 one-way flights between Las Vegas and Los Angeles or Orange County, and $59 fares from Chicago to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
More than 20 years after it was reported to be haunted, a central Connecticut home is again seeing unwanted visitors.
Washington D.C. is a very confusing town, with its monuments.
At least 10 passengers from the United States and Canada were among 11 people killed in a bus wreck with a tractor-trailer in northeast Mexico, news reports said Tuesday.
A suicide bomber attacked a group of South Korean tourists in southern Yemen on Sunday, killing four of them, officials said, the latest such attack on foreign visitors here.
To most of its four million visitors a year, Cancun is blue sky, turquoise sea, white sand, and huge all-inclusive hotels. The sort of place where the drinks flow freely, and the troubles of the world seem a long way away.
The Amgen is coming, The Amgen is coming cycling's big day here in California the 'Tour of California'... It starts on the streets of Sacramento this Saturday (Valentines Day) following a long history of cycling events for our town....
Naked mountain hikers in the Swiss canton of Appenzell-Innerrhoden will in future face on the spot fines of 200 Swiss francs ($170), Swiss daily Tages-Anzeiger reported over the weekend.
Two German tourists have been detained for taking their clothes off in the lobby of a Brazilian airport, authorities said Tuesday.
- A tour bus overturned Friday afternoon on U.S. Route 93 near Hoover Dam, killing at least six people and injuring at least 16 others, an Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman said.
A car rental company is insisting that the parents of two men killed in an ice collapse at Fox Glacier pay for transporting the rental car - even though the keys were buried with their dead son under tonnes of ice.
A group of tourists on a walking ghost tour of downtown Charleston on Tuesday night now have a spooky story of their own to tell. A car drove onto the sidewalk on Meeting Street on Monday and into a group on a ghost tour.
Like it or not, tourist attractions are part of this city, too. But do they deserve the bad rap they get from grizzled locals? Decider takes an ongoing, objective look at the cold, hard facts of establishments that largely exist to draw in transients in Tourist Trap.
About 35 Somalis, including children and women, on Wednesday afternoon demanded the refugee status from the Nepal government.
Every person flying into Britain will be offered a free cup of tea and a biscuit in an ambitious, if eccentric, plan to make the country more cheerful.
Nudists and their rival clothed tourists put aside their dressing differences to help a dolphin in distress at a Formentera beach.
Here is an article about the world's top 50 most visited tourist attractions. I found it interesting to see where the majority of our tourists head. I live near London in the United Kingdom, and you most definantly see a LOT of tourists with their camera's and their guide books.
As Australia experiences its worst drought in 100 years, farmers and residents across Australia's "food bowl" - the Murray Darling Basin - describe how it has affected their lives.
Tour guides have lifted the lid on the daftest questions asked by visitors to England's top historical sites.
"Internal conflict within the militant organisation, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, has reportedly slowed negotiations with Austrian authorities for the release of two hostages kidnapped in February.
Thirty firefighters are tackling a huge blaze at the Grand Pier in the Somerset seaside resort of Weston-super-Mare. Black smoke and flames are billowing into the sky and are said to be visible from as far away as Cardiff and Bristol.
South Carolina's top tourism agency has canceled an overseas advertising campaign targeting gay tourists.
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