Tag: tourists
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Mass poisoning blamed on tainted alcohol with American among four tourists dead
An American citizen has died at a popular adventure spot in Laos where alcohol tainted with methanol has been blamed for a spate of poisonings in recent days. The State Department said the U.S. citizen died in Vang Vieng, a town popular with backpackers to the north of the South East Asian country’s capital. “We…
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Tourists who came for a sunny Disney vacation are instead stranded by the storm
They went to Disney World for theme park rides and photo ops with Mickey Mouse. Now they’re adding an unexpected adventure to their Disney vacations: Hunkering down at the resort to ride out a ferocious hurricane that is headed toward Florida. In the past few days, Hurricane Milton has morphed from a pesky storm system…
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After Helene, the Great Smoky Mountains are desperate for tourists
October was supposed to be Gianna Carson’s busiest month of the year. Instead, she estimates she’s lost upward of $15,000 since Hurricane Helene hit her Bryson City, North Carolina, bakery and vacation rental a week ago. Now, in addition to the number of bakeshop transactions plummeting from 300 a day to around 50, she said…