By Christine Sarkis | Smarter Travel – Fri, May 24, 2013 (Photo: Shutterstock) Standing atop the ramparts of China’s Great Wall. Snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. These are the giants of our collective imagination, the plumes in our travel caps. Although they might seem timeless, many of the world’s most treasured sites are in peril,
By Li Hui and Ben Blanchard | Reuters – Thu, May 30, 2013 BEIJING (Reuters) – From faking marriage certificates to get honeymoon discounts in the Maldives to letting children defecate on the floor of a Taiwan airport, Chinese tourists have recently found themselves at the center of controversy and anger. Thanks to microblogging sites in China,
By Rio Rose Ribaya | Yahoo! Southeast Asia Newsroom – 20 hours ago More than 1.5 million foreign tourists have already visited the country in the first quarter of 2013 alone, the Department of Tourism said. Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez noted the 1,649,458 visitors from all over the world represent a 10.12 percent increase in tourist arrivals
By Charles Choi | LiveScience.com The ancient city of Angkor — the most famous monument of which is the breathtaking ruined temple of Angkor Wat — might have collapsed due to valiant but ultimately failed efforts to battle drought, scientists find. The great city of Angkor in Cambodia, first established in the ninth century, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, the major player in
