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Airbnb brought a federal complaint Tuesday in protest of new limits on short-term residential rentals adopted by the city of Boston.
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Missouri Tour Boat Captain Indicted After Sinking Kills 17
The captain of a tourist boat that sank in southwest Missouri and killed 17 people, including nine members of an Indiana family, didn’t tell passengers to put on flotation devices or prepare them to abandon ship even after waves crashed into the boat during a severe storm, according to an indictment released Thursday.
Read moreCome See Forests and Peaks, but Clean Up, New Zealand Says
New Zealand has a message for the visitors drawn by its deep mossy forests, bubbling mud pools and magnificent peaks: clean up after yourselves.
Read morePhilippine Island Once Called ‘Cesspool’ Reopens to Tourists
Boatloads of tourists sailed Friday to the Philippines’ Boracay island, which officials reopened to visitors after a six-month closure to clean waters the president had called a “cesspool” due to years of overcrowding, partying and neglect.
Read moreEU Court Reinstates Mineral Water Trademark for Tiny Spa Town
Reinstating trademark protection for mineral water produced in Devin, Bulgaria, the European General Court found Thursday that any association tourists might have with the tiny spa town is not enough to cause confusion.
Read moreTrump Seeks to Hold Control of DC Hotel Against Lawsuit
An attorney for President Trump urged a federal judge Tuesday to give his client immunity from a lawsuit claiming that his job as president gives his swanky hotel in the nation’s capital an unfair advantage over local businesses.
Read moreSpy Case Suspects Say They Were in UK as Tourists
The two Russian men charged in Britain with poisoning a former Russian spy with a deadly nerve agent appeared on Kremlin-funded television on Thursday, denying their involvement in the attack and saying that their appearance in the English city of Salisbury was merely an “incredible, fatal coincidence.”
Read moreAppeals Court Sides With Coastal Commission on Beach Hotel Project
A state appeals court has upheld the California Coastal Commission’s decision to require affordable accommodations in connection to a proposed 175-room hotel on the San Diego Bay.
Read moreBritish Airways Travelers’ Credit Card Details Hacked
Hackers obtained the credit card details of some 380,000 British Airways travelers during a two-week data breach this summer that leaves the customers vulnerable to financial fraud, the airline says.
Read moreProsecutors: Possible Negligence in Missouri Boat Sinking
Federal prosecutors say in court filings that the U.S. Coast Guard found probable cause that the captain of a tourist boat that sank in Missouri, killing 17 people, committed misconduct, negligence or was inattentive to his duties.
Read moreThomas Cook Takes Its Guests Out of Egypt Hotel After 2 Died
Tour operator Thomas Cook is evacuating all of its customers from a hotel in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Hurghada after two Britons died there this week under unclear circumstances.
Read moreNYC Merchants House Rebukes Landmark Commission
Contesting plans to build a new hotel in the East Village, the nonprofit responsible for the Old Merchants House says in court that the development deal threatens “a veritable time capsule” of 19th century New York City life.
Read moreNYC Faces Negligence Claim Over Times Square Carnage
Joined by a handful of survivors, the father of the young tourist who was killed in Times Square last year by a car that sped for three blocks on the sidewalk brought a lawsuit Tuesday against the arrested driver and the city.
Read moreRelatives of Duck Boat Victims File $100M Lawsuit
Family members of victims filed a $100 million federal lawsuit Sunday against the owners and operators of a defective duck boat that sank and dragged 17 people to their deaths at the bottom of a Missouri lake less than two weeks ago.
Read moreCruise Ship Guards First Tried to Scare Polar Bear Away
Norwegian authorities are defending the actions of guards from a German cruise ship that killed a polar bear that had attacked and injured a crew member, saying they at first tried to scare it away.
Read moreBarcelona Taxis Strike for 2nd Day, Tourists Face Delays
Tourists arriving in Barcelona are facing long lines and jam-packed buses and subways as the city’s taxis went on strike for a second day.
Read moreShareholder Class Action
Directors are selling ILG Inc. too cheaply through an unfair process to Marriott Vacations Worldwide, for $4.7 billion, shareholders say in a federal class action.
Read moreFlights Disrupted as Bali Volcano Shoots Towering Ash Column
The Mount Agung volcano on Bali shot ash 6,600 feet into the atmosphere Thursday, disrupting the travel plans of thousands as several airlines canceled flights from the Indonesian tourist island.
Read moreItaly Pursues Offshore Oil Drilling, Despite Worries
Italy’s coastlines are among the most famous and beloved in the world, and the reason why tourists flock with abandon to places like Monopoli, a walled city on the Adriatic Sea each summer. But Monopolitan fishermen and others worry that that government’s new plans to allow offshore drilling could ruin their livelihood and the tourism from which so many coastal residents make their living.
Read moreFrance Trademark Prevails Against Dot-Com Doppelganger
The European General Court backed the government of France on Tuesday in its challenge to the trademark registration of a travel company called France.com.
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