Posts Tagged ‘tourists’

Tourists treating Italy as a personal theme park

Thursday, November 17th, 2022

Some tourists this northern summer have been treating Italy as if it’s their personal theme park. Following a Czech tourist sunbathing topless on a war memorial and Americans skinny dipping in Venice’s canals, three visitors to the Amalfi Coast look set to be charged with “obscene acts” after a woman was caught staging an impromptu Read more

Students make controversy about tourist drivers a business opportunity.

Tuesday, June 7th, 2016

Six Francis Douglas Memorial College students in New Plymouth have developed a ‘T’ plate that tourists drivers can put on their car, similar to an ‘L’ plate for learner drivers. Having the plates on tourist drivers’ cars would make the public “more aware” of crashes involving foreigners, year 12 student and company “CEO” Patrick Back Read more

Pope affirms beauty and goodness in tourism

Friday, April 27th, 2012

In a message to the 7th world congress on pastoral care of tourists, Pope Benedict has affirmed the value of tourism and supported the horizons it opens. Benedict said that admiring the beauty of other people, cultures and nature, can lead to God and be the occasion of an experience of faith. “Tourism, together with Read more