A tour operator in New Zealand is facing trouble with authorities because it has hired travelling backpackers to impersonate Maori and entertain tourists.
The tour company Discovery Heritage Group located in the city of Tauranga on the North Island, paid backpackers hailing from Israel and France to disguise themselves using feathered robes as well as pen-drawn [...]

Australian travel experts say overseas arrival numbers are expected to surge 4.3 percent in 2010.
The tourism industry in Australia is predicted to resume with positive growth in 2010 with the strongest numbers in foreign arrivals in 5 years.
In 2009, Australia’s tourism industry endured its steepest decline in total visitor consumption since 2003 and its SARS [...]

Imagine Ireland, a UK based self-catering travel business has expressed confidence and has predicted that the Irish tourism market will get reacquainted with growth in 2010.
Founded by Annette Collins and Astrid Nitzsche in 2003, Imagine Ireland is one of the country’s greatest self-catering travel firms and provides in excess of 1000 individually appraised accommodation properties [...]

According to India’s tourism minister, the sharp decline in tourist numbers have levelled out.
Kumari Selja said visitors to the country had slumped by 7% to 4.2m in the 10 months to October over the same period in 2008. But Foreign earnings have increased by 4.1% over the same period.
Addressing this year’s edition of the World [...]

The spot lights were on Abu Dhabi last weekend at the World Travel Awards as the event saw the Tourism Authority of the emirate be honoured with the title of the World’s Leading Tourist Board.
Ahmed Hussein, the deputy director general of ADTA, said during a visit to the World Travel Market in London, that the [...]

North East England self-catering accommodation providers have just recorded an amazing summer this year with a jump of 10% in occupancy rates over 2008. In the period between July to September 2009 the occupancy levels for self-catering properties in the North East of England was 85%, the highest level it has ever experienced since regional [...]