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Cuba: The Forgotten Island Tourism

Cuba: The Forgotten Island

Cubans continue to love Russians, heal with kisses and build socialism. They firmly believe that if you talk to Russians, you must warn them: “Now I’ll tell a joke.” And this is almost justified…

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In a black headscarf through ancient Iran Tourism

In a black headscarf through ancient Iran

On the night flight to Tehran, there were no tourists besides us. Iranians, who occupied half the seats, were returning home. Among the Russians, judging by conversations, someone was flying to…

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Visiting the Drowning City Tourism

Visiting the Drowning City

What does it matter that wits call Venice 'a signora with bad breath' because of the strong blend of scents of sea salt, slops, and silt? Its beauty drove Byron, Casanova, Proust, Wagner, Diaghilev…

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Multi-storey Luxembourg Tourism

Multi-storey Luxembourg

Historians often called the capital of the Grand Duchy the “Northern Gibraltar”. As the magazine “Europe” writes, this small city in the very heart of Europe has from ancient times been an almost…

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Holidays in St. Petersburg will become more expensive and popular Tourism

Holidays in St. Petersburg will become more expensive and popular

Tourist Petersburg intends to compete with Paris. As IA Rosbalt reports, a program for developing St. Petersburg as a tourist center was recently presented to the city government. The program was…

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Turin: The Ascent to Olympus Tourism

Turin: The Ascent to Olympus

Turin's residents too often say that their city is not ready for the flood of tourists. One wonders if this is false modesty, or whether Turin really considers itself too provincial to interest…

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To the Ocean on a Moped Tourism

To the Ocean on a Moped

Goa is the smallest and, perhaps, the cleanest state in India. As Izvestia.RU writes, the country's tourist territory, occupying only 110 km of the southeastern coast of India, can be studied almost…

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Japan Clearly Lacks Comfort Tourism

Japan Clearly Lacks Comfort

Why Japan's successes in the domestic tourism market are so modest.

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Drink Mosel wine and eat sausage with pepper Tourism

Drink Mosel wine and eat sausage with pepper

What's on: in April Spain chews sausage with pepper and manzanilla olives, France devours scallops, Germany drinks Mosel wine, and Finland drinks beer.

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Optimal Combination of Tourism Tourism

Optimal Combination of Tourism

As practice shows, the sea, wellness, excursions, and entertainment are the main requests of clients of travel companies. About where and how to best relax this season - our conversation with…

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A Concentrated Country Tourism

A Concentrated Country

"Jordan is so small that it is simply surprising how much rare and unique stuff fits in it," writes Vremya Novostei. From the capital Amman to the resort of Aqaba in the far south of the country it…

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Africa is waiting? Africa is waiting! Tourism

Africa is waiting? Africa is waiting!

“Far, far away, on Lake Chad, a pensive giraffe wanders...” “Well, let him wander,” someone will shrug indifferently. Another will go to see the wondrous giraffe on the wondrous lake with his own…

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