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30.07.26 - 09:51
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Where Tourists Outnumber Locals (ZeroHedge)
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Where Tourists Outnumber Locals
The world's busiest tourist destinations are not always the countries with the highest number of visitors per resident. In smaller nations, annual arrivals can exceed the local population many times over.
This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Gabriel Cohen, ranks the 25 countries with the highest number of international tourist arrivals per resident, using the latest available data from UN Tourism via Our World in Data and population figures from the World Bank. Territories have been excluded.
Andorra: The Tourist Playground
Andorra stands in a league of its own. The country welcomes roughly 4.2 million international visitors annually despite having only about 82,000 residents, resulting in 51 tourist arrivals per resident—more than five times Monaco's second-place ratio.
Sandwiched in the Pyrenees between France and Spain, Andorra receives many visitors from its two larger neighbors. In recent years, the country has also attracted growing numbers of vis...
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30.07.26 - 08:18
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Meta misses earnings forecasts after Zuckerberg media push to promote AI (The Guardian)
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Stock tumbles nearly 8% after weaker-than-expected results, despite CEO's blitz to tout positive effects of AIMark Zuckerberg's media spree touting the positive effects of artificial intelligence did little to cushion the blow of Meta's second-quarter earnings, which sent its stock tumbling on Wednesday.In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published on Tuesday, the Meta chief executive expressed his optimism for a world where everyone has access to a super-intelligent machine. Continue reading......
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29.07.26 - 23:54
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US State Department Issues Travel Advisory For Caribbean Tourist Destination (ZeroHedge)
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US State Department Issues Travel Advisory For Caribbean Tourist Destination
Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,
The State Department updated its travel advisory for the Bahamas, highlighting the risk of crime, including sexual assaults, in the Caribbean nation.
Violent crimes, such as sexual assaults, armed robberies, and burglaries, can occur anywhere in the country, the department said in a July 28 update.
“Most crime occurs in Nassau and Freeport on New Providence and Grand Bahama islands. Stay alert in the 'Over the Hill' area in Nassau, south of Shirley Street, where gangs have killed residents. Stay alert in vacation rental properties, especially where private security is not present,” the department said.
Located on New Providence Island, Nassau is the capital of the Bahamas.
The Bahamas has been designated as a “Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution” classification.
The advisory specifically warned about jet skiing and boating activities in the Bahamas, highlig...
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