Iceland is pitching itself as an island of bargains, especially to Americans who hold a suddenly valuable commodity: dollars.

To a handful of businessmen, Mount Nyiragongo is central to an effort to transform an area best known as the epicenter of the deadliest conflict since World War II into a tourist attraction.

Iraq’s Board of Tourism is charged with a difficult task: attracting foreign visitors to a beleaguered country.

The acting prime minister, Somchai Wongsawat, implored all sides to find a peaceful solution to nearly three weeks of protests that have severely hindered tourism.

The police were investigating whether a small tourist boat that sank Saturday night in the Seine had collided with a bridge or with a larger tourist dinner boat.

Opposition lawmakers leapt on the episodes as showing that the government?s stance on crime and illegal immigration had been little more than window dressing.

Opposition lawmakers leapt on the episodes as showing that the government?s stance on crime and illegal immigration had been little more than window dressing.

Malia, Greece, is the latest in a long list of European resorts full of young British tourists on packaged tours offering cheap alcohol and a license to behave badly.

What began as a bit of summer fun in the Italian news media spun into an incident after a London newspaper wrote: ?Tourists beware: if it?s fun, Italy has a law against it.?

Hustlers were gone Monday as Egypt began the first stage of an elaborate project to modernize the area of the Giza Pyramids.