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Move over Orlando, Brazil’s Balneário Camboriú is on the rise

Development

Balneário Camboriú is known as Brazil’s Dubai for the rows of skyscrapers that line the beachfront. It’s home to the three tallest buildings in Brazil. But there’s another city that Balneário Camboriú seems to be increasingly emulating: Orlando, Florida, for its theme parks.

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Arts, Culture & Media
The Statue of Liberty is one of the United States' most-visited tourist attractions.

International travel to the US drops for the first time since 2009

Economics
Pictured here is Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park.

Is ‘last-chance tourism’ good or bad for endangered places?

Science
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The Assad regime launches a ‘Syria Always Beautiful’ travel ad

Economics
Candy shop Istanbul

In this traditional Turkish candy shop, a daughter takes her turn

Culture

The Old City of Istanbul has long been a man’s world. But inside one fifth-generation candy shop, times are changing. The Old City of Istanbul has long been a man’s world. But inside one fifth-generation candy shop, times are changing.

Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service rangers inspect the Great Barrier Reef's condition in an area called the "Coral Gardens," located at Lady Elliot Island in Queensland, Australia, on June 10, 2015.

Great Barrier Reef bleaching could cost Australia a million tourists

Business

The World Heritage-listed reef experienced an unprecedented bleaching earlier this year that saw much of it whiten and almost a quarter of corals die.

The border between Stewart, British Columbia and Hyder, Alaska as seen from the Canadian side.

Canada plans to limit the hours of a border crossing that divides US village, Canadian town

Business

It’s a tale of two towns — one in Alaska and the other in British Columbia. The Canadian border agency plans to close the border crossing overnight leaving residents in this community stranded.

A woman looks over Moraine Lake in Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, outside the village of Lake Louise, Alberta.

Canada is slashing its spots for foreign guest workers, and resort towns are worried

Business

Temporary foreign workers are the backbone of seasonal resort towns. But a new law in Canada is making it harder to hire them, upsetting local business owners who say they won’t have the workforce they need during peak tourist season.

First the World Cup, now an aquarium? Some Brazilians say a new US-backed project isn’t needed

Environment

The Brazilian city of Fortaleza is building the largest aquarium in South America, and much of the funding is coming from the US. It’s all designed to boost the city’s tourism economy, but can a massive new aquarium deliver benefits to Fortalezans?The Brazilian city of Fortaleza is building the largest aquarium in South America, and much of the funding is coming from the US. It’s all designed to boost the city’s tourism economy, but can a massive new aquarium deliver benefits to Fortalezans?