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Venice prepares to charge tourists, require booking

September 6, 20211033 Views

From a control room inside the police headquarters in Venice, Big Brother is watching you. To combat tourist overcrowding, officials are tracking every person who sets foot in the lagoon city. Using 468 CCTV cameras, optical sensors and a mobile phone-tracing system, they can tell residents from visitors, Italians from foreigners, where people are coming from, where they are heading and how fast they are moving. Tourists ride on a gondola as the municipality prepares to charge them up to 10 Euros for entry into the lagoon city, in order to cut down the number of visitors, in Venice, Italy, September 5, 2021. REUTERS/Manuel Silvestri Every 15 minutes, authorities get a snapshot of how crowded the city is - alongside how many gondolas are sliding on the Canal Grande, whether boa...

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Israel to reopen for small foreign tourist groups

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September 5, 2021832 Views

Israel will allow small foreign tour groups from selective countries to visit from Sept. 19 under a pilot programme to kick-start tourism, the government said on Sunday. Tour groups of between 5 and 30 people from countries on Israel's green, yellow and orange lists will be allowed to enter the country provided all group members have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the tourism ministry said. FILE PHOTO: Beachgoers hang out on the shore of the Mediterranean sea in Tel Aviv as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions eased in Israel May 21, 2020. REUTERS/Amir Cohen Individual tourists, who have not been allowed to visit Israel since the outset of the coronavirus pandemic there in March 2020 unless they are visiting family members, will still not be allowed to enter outsi...

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Spanish village hosts first bull running fiesta since pandemic

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September 5, 2021418 Views

Ten bulls charged through the streets of Villaseca de la Sagra on Sunday in pursuit of hundreds of runners as the first bull running fiesta was held in Spain since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. A reveller wearing a protective mask calls a steer during the first running-of-the-bull festival since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic began in Villaseca de la Sagra, central Spain, September 5, 2021. REUTERS/Sergio Perez Villages and towns across Spain hold the fiestas but they were prohibited last year as the country brought in tough health restrictions. Opposition to them has increased in recent years as Spanish society remains divided over the controversial issue of using bulls for sport. No-one was injured during the country's first run, in this village of 1,700 inha...

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Indigenous leaders push new target to protect Amazon from deforestation

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September 5, 2021806 Views

Indigenous groups urged world leaders on Sunday to back a new target to protect 80% of the Amazon basin by 2025, saying bold action was needed to stop deforestation pushing the Earth's largest rainforest beyond a point of no return. Amazonian delegates launched their campaign at a nine-day conference in Marseille, where several thousand officials, scientists and campaigners are laying the groundwork for United Nations talks on biodiversity in the Chinese city of Kunming next year. FILE PHOTO: Carlos Roberto Sanquetta, a forestry engineering professor at the Federal University of Parana, botanist Edilson Consuelo de Oliveira and Rioterra plant nursery worker Juciney Pinheiro dos Santos inspect a parcel of Amazon rainforest in Itapua do Oeste, Rondonia state, Brazil, November 4, 2020....

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फॉलकिर्क व्हील यानी नाव का गंडोला

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September 4, 2021488 Views

गंडोले में या फेरी व्हील में झूले पर बैठकर ऊपर जाते-नीचे आते तो हम सबने देखा-सुना महसूस किया है, लेकिन यहां हम ऐसे गंडोले की बात कर रहे हैं जिसमें नावें ऊपर-नीचे आती जाती है। स्कॉटलैंड की फोर्थ एंड क्लाइड नहर को 35 मीटर की ऊंचाई पर स्थित यूनियन नहर से जोड़ने वाला यह गंडोला दुनिया में इंजीनियरिंग के नायाब करिश्मों में से एक माना जाता है और यह स्कॉटलैंड की पारंपरिक इंजीनियरिंग की देन है। पहाड़ी घाटी में नदियों या नहरों में नावों के आने-जाने के लिए लॉक या लिफ्ट की तकनीक यूरोप में सदियों से रही है। फॉलकिर्क व्हील उसी का उन्नत स्वरूप है। पहले यह काम इस रास्ते पर बने 11 लॉक के जरिये किया जाता था। 1930 में यह लॉक इस्तेमाल में आना बंद हो गए। ग्लास्गो को एडिनबर्ग से फिर जोड़ने की कवायद में इस व्हील की कल्पना रची गई। फोर्थ एंड क्लाइड नहर की शुरुआत 1773 में हुई थी और उसे फोर्थ नदी पर ग्रेंगमा...

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UK ‘red list’ dashes Turkish tourism hopes

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September 3, 2021514 Views

When Britain announced Turkey would stay on its “red list” of travel destinations last week, Onur Arican decided to close his boutique hotel on the Aegean coast early this year rather than wait out a summer season derailed by COVID-19 and wildfires. In 2019, Britain was Turkey’s third-biggest source of tourists with 2.5 million visitors that year, most of whom flocked to the Turquoise Coast near Bodrum and Marmaris, where Arican runs his 19-room Mavi Yengec hotel. FILE PHOTO: A staff member stands next to empty tables as cafes and restaurants reopen after closing down for months amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Istanbul, Turkey. REUTERS/Dilara Senkaya This year the number of British guests was down by two thirds compared to 2019, Arican said, and he was forced...

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Spain’s Fallas fiesta resumes after COVID hiatus, rain damage

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September 2, 2021822 Views

Heavy rain has dampened the giant paper mache figures lined up for the Fallas festival in the Spanish city of Valencia, but not the spirits of participants eager to celebrate the fiery fiesta after a pandemic-induced hiatus. Falla El Charco monument, damaged after heavy rainfall, is seen in Valencia, Spain, September 2, 2021. REUTERS/Eva Manez The five-day festival, traditionally held in March, was cancelled last year as the COVID-19 pandemic struck Spain. The start of this year's event had to be postponed until Sept. 1 due to many restrictions in place earlier this year. "Being in the street again is to win the game against COVID, with all the safety measures and working hard so that there are no infections, we hope that the festival makes us regain a little joy," said Jaime Bro...

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Below a pyramid, a treasure trove sheds new light on ancient Mexican rites

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September 2, 2021531 Views

More than a decade after Sergio Gomez began excavating a tunnel under a towering Mexican pyramid, the archeologist still spends most of his time studying the massive cache of sacred artifacts carefully placed there by priests some 2,000 years ago. The volume and variety of objects hidden in the sealed tunnel under Teotihuacan's ornate Feathered Serpent Pyramid has shattered records for discoveries at the ancient city, once the most populous metropolis of the Americas and now a top tourist draw just outside modern-day Mexico City. Sonia Disciplina examines a bouquet of "well-preserved old flowers" inside inside a 2,000-year-old tunnel built under the ornate Feathered Serpent Pyramid, which archaeologist Sergio Gomez believes recreated the underworld and was used to initiate new ruler...

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Twin elephants born in Sri Lanka in rare occurrence

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September 1, 20211059 Views

An elephant in Sri Lanka gave birth to twins on Tuesday for the first time in nearly 80 years, wildlife authorities said. The twins, both males, were born to 25-year-old Surangi at Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in the central hills of the country, an orphanage spokesperson said. Their father, 17-year-old Pandu, is also an orphanage resident. Video footage from local Hiru TV media showed the grey calves on their feet and eating leaves around their mother's legs. Sri Lankan elephant experts said twins were last born to a domesticated elephant in the country in 1941. One of Sri Lanka's biggest tourist attractions, Pinnawala was set up in 1975 to care for wild elephants that needed to be rescued or treated for injuries. There are around 7,500 wild elephants in Sri Lanka, whi...

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Black rhino, sable antelope, other species at risk from growing human population

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September 1, 2021595 Views

Kenya's black rhinos, sable antelope and three other species are critically endangered, while nine more species including lions, elephants and cheetahs are endangered, the government said, citing the threat from an expanding human population. The East African nation conducted a three-month survey of its wildlife from May to July, the first time it has conducted such an exercise aimed at informing its conservation policies. FILE PHOTO: A southern white rhino and her calf are seen inside the Nairobi National Park with the Nairobi skyline in the background, in Kenya. REUTERS/Baz Ratner In its report, released late on Tuesday, the government said conservation efforts were facing a threat from an expanding population which is encroaching on the spaces reserved for wildlife. Human a...