India News: There's a saying that it's best to let sleeping dogs lie, especially if those dogs happen to be elephants. However, in Hathi Gaon, the squealing pigs
The streets, hotels and restaurants around the ruins of Machu Picchu — Peru's most famous tourist attraction — remained almost deserted Wednesday, with train service to the area canceled amid a week-long protest over the outsourcing of entry ticket sales to a private company. Small businesses and workers in the tourism sector fear the new ticketing system imposed by Peru's government 10 days ago will hurt them while benefiting big companies, and their protests have slowed visitor arrivals to a trickle. “This seems like the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, you hardly see any people,” said Roger Monzón, an employee at the Inkas Land hotel in the Machu Picchu district, an 18-room building currently housing only two tourists from Portugal.
In the next tourism high season, Russian tourists would have to pay $2,100 for a nine-day-stay package to the island, more than if they travel to other destinations.
New Delhi [India], April 19 (ANI/NewsVoir): World Animal Protection is concerned to learn the news of the resumption of elephant safaris in Uttarakhand as well as the promotion of elephant rides in West Bengal. In the wake of coronavirus, traditional ideas on human animal relationship have changed, including the interactions of humans with captive wild animals. Elephant rides are going out of fashion the world over and ethical tourist operators are replacing these offerings with more ethical wildlife experiences, like enjoying the spectacle of them in the wild or in well maintained sanctuaries. Modern tourism practices are slowly and surely embracing the principle of 'bring back better,' whereby old practices like elephant rides that have been practiced for ages, are now being challenged on moral and scientific grounds. World Animal Protection has recently published a report named 'Real Responsible Traveller' outlining the animal welfare principles associated with touri
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