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Tuesday, Jul 26, 2022

Malta | Just under one million tourists visited Malta in 2021

/Tourist arrivals were up nearly 50% over 2020, the year the pandemic began/ *Tourist arrivals in Malta in 2021 increased by 47%, reaching 968,136 tourists, according to the National Statistics Office...

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Tuesday, Jul 26, 2022

Drowning among leading causes of death for kids, young adults: WHO

* * *The World Health Organization (WHO) stated on Monday that drowning is among the leading causes of death among people aged between 1-24 and the third leading cause of unintentional injury deaths,...

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Tuesday, Jul 26, 2022

Malta | Cruise passenger arrivals at 2014 levels

/Passenger numbers remain far off pre-pandemic levels/ *The number of people arriving in Malta on cruise ships in the first six months of the year was at levels last seen in 2014, as the industry trie...

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Monday, Jul 25, 2022

Hotter, drier: Mideast wakes up to damage from climate change

/Nations across the Middle East, one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to the impact of climate change, are facing the dangerous cost of global warming, particularly the damage it is already...

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Monday, Jul 25, 2022

More than a thousand migrants disembark in a few hours in Italy

* * *More than a thousand migrants have landed in Italy in recent hours and hundreds of others, rescued by humanitarian ships, are waiting for a port of reception, NGOs and Italian authorities said on...

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Monday, Jul 25, 2022

Morocco and Tunisia the default preferences of the French

* * *After two lean years, if we can dare to say so, world tourism is picking up the slack and experiencing a marked growth during this period that some hope behind them. Morocco, a tourist destinatio...

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Sunday, Jul 24, 2022

Mediterranean Sea is experiencing a brutal marine heatwave this July

*Europe is not just experiencing heatwaves on land. The Mediterranean Sea is experiencing a brutal marine heatwave this July, which will have devastating impacts on marine ecosystems while also enhanc...

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Sunday, Jul 24, 2022

Thousands of British holidaymakers face queues at English Channel

* * *Unions, port officials and the French authorities blamed Brexit on Saturday thousands of holidaymakers faced long waits to cross the English Channel, while lorries remained backed up after the se...

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Sunday, Jul 24, 2022

Turkey’s domestic tourist spending hits $680 million in Q1

* * *Domestic tourist expenditures in Turkey increased by 100.4% in the January-March period of this year when compared to the same period of the previous year, reaching TL 12.1 billion ($680 million)...

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Friday, Jul 22, 2022

Heat wave engulfs US as Europe heads toward record fire year

/Record temperatures are being seen across the U.S., triggering health alerts for more than 100 million people, as fires that have torched Europe are on course to make 2022 a record year for forest lo...

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Wednesday, Jul 20, 2022

FIJET Academy Programme for young Journalists will take place in Tangier | Morocco

* * *Among the initiatives taken more than 10 years ago by the International Federation of Journalists and Writers on Tourism – FIJET – under the Presidency of Dr Tijani Haddad, was the creation of t...

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Monday, Jul 18, 2022

Germans unseat Russian tourists in Turkey's Antalya after 5 years

*The famed Turkish resort city of Antalya has welcomed more than a million German tourists so far this year, according to Recep Yavuz, head of the Antalya City Council Tourism Working Group.* "In the ...

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