Social media influencers pose a “new and increasing threat” for uncontacted indigenous people, a charity has warned after the arrest of a US tourist who travelled to a restricted Indian Ocean island. Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, allegedly landed on North Sentinel Island in an apparent attempt to make contact with the isolated Sentinelese tribe, filming…
Cachella Smith and Lana Lam BBC News David McArthur MBE/Reuters Sindbad submarine vessels seen off the coast of Hurghada in August 2022. Six people have died after a tourist submarine sank in Egypt’s Red Sea. Local officials say 39 others were rescued after the vessel sank at around 10:00 local time. Unconfirmed reports suggested the…
A French tourist detained by Iranian authorities for more than two years has been released and returned to France, President Emmanuel Macron has said. Olivier Grondeau, 34, is “free” and with his family, Macron wrote on X on Thursday, adding: “We share his family’s immense happiness and relief.” Mr Grondeau was arrested in southern Iran…
Two women were gang-raped and a man was killed in an attack near a popular Unesco World Heritage site in southern India, according to police. The two women – an Israeli tourist and an Indian homestay operator – were stargazing with three male tourists near a lake in Hampi, Karnataka, when they were attacked by…
Francesca Gillett BBC News @HP_SDRF/X The local rescue team said the terrain was “challenging” as they stretchered the man down the mountain A British tourist has died while trekking with a friend in the Himalaya mountains in northern India. The two British men were hiking in “extremely difficult terrain” near the village of Thathri in…
February marks the unofficial start of the tourist season in the Greek island of Santorini – when the first cruise ships are due to arrive and the Easter holidays approach. But with thousands of earthquakes shaking the island since January and experts unable to say when they will end, one cruise has already turned away…
Thai police have charged a mahout after an elephant in his care gored a Spanish tourist to death last week. Theerayut Inthaphudkij, 38, was charged with negligence causing death, local authorities said Monday. The tourist – 22-year-old Blanca Ojanguren García – was bathing the elephant at the Koh Yao Elephant Care Centre in southern Thailand…
A “panic-stricken” elephant killed a Spanish woman while she was bathing the animal at an elephant centre in Thailand, local police said. Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, was washing the elephant at the Koh Yao Elephant Care Centre last Friday when she was gored to death by the animal. Experts told Spanish language newspaper Clarín that…
Getty Images The Roman archaeological site of Pompeii will limit the number of daily visitors to the site to 20,000 a day after a steep rise in visitors. A record high 36,000 tourists visited the site on the first Sunday of October, when entry was free, local media reported. The park’s management said on Friday…
Getty Images The Roman archaeological site of Pompeii will limit the number of daily visitors to the site to 20,000 a day after a steep rise in visitors. A record high 36,000 tourists visited the site on the first Sunday of October, when entry was free, local media reported. The park’s management said on Friday…
