In a normal year, Alyan and Sharhan, the pair of camels that greet visitors as they enter Jordan’s ancient city of Petra, would have little rest. Usually, tourist after tourist climbs on their backs to be photographed in front of the 2,000-year-old Treasury building. With war engulfing the Middle East for the past two months,…
Just after sunrise on a cloudless spring day, Junichi Horiuchi, wearing a Dodgers cap and hot-pink gloves and carrying a walking stick, was on the hunt. Mr. Horiuchi, the leader of a civic group, was picking up trash and looking for unruly tourists at Arakurayama Sengen Park in Fujiyoshida, an idyllic town of about 46,000…
Shorouk Express Spain’s capital has launched a new public transport card aimed specifically at tourists which allows for unlimited travel for a certain amount of time, starting from €10. The Community of Madrid’s new public transport card enables visitors to travel as much as they want on the metro system, buses, light rail and commuter…
Shorouk Express A new report has revealed that 7 in 10 American tourists plan to visit Spain in the coming three years, consolidating it as the number one European destination that US nationals want to visit or move to currently. A new study has revealed that 7 in 10 American tourists are planning to visit…
Shorouk Express Tsunami warning after magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes off Crete coast in Greece On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Tourists were urged to “move away from the coast” after a 6.1-magnitude earthquake near Crete…
Shorouk Express If you rent your property out to tourists in Spain, is it necessary to register as ‘autónomo’? You’re a resident in Spain and you’re lucky enough to own two properties. You meet all the requirements to get a tourist licence and decide to rent out the second property to visitors. Or you have…
Shorouk Express Several environmental and resident groups on the Spanish island of Mallorca have sent an open letter to tourists in four languages asking them not to visit because they are “the source” of the problems the island is experiencing. “Mallorca is not the paradise they are selling you,” states the letter signed by SOS…
Shorouk Express Another day, another wave of misguided sensationalist British newspaper headlines about the Spanish tourism sector. More specifically, outrage about new rules set to be implemented on the Balearic island of Mallorca that, according to several outlets, mean tourists will be “treated like animals”. The headlines, pushed by some English-language tabloids in Spain and…
