BOSTON (SHNS) – Tourism has long been a bedrock sector in Massachusetts and the latest industry snapshot shows a bump in visitors and an even larger increase in visitor spending. Visitor expenditures ...

Spanish activist Pere Joan Femenia from "Fridays for Future" on Mallorca takes part in a protest against mass tourism on Mallorca. Clara Margais/dpa Another demonstration against the excesses of mass ...

Residents of Barcelona took out their frustrations against the increased mass tourism by visiting popular spots around the city this weekend and spraying people with water guns, demanding they go home ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, cities that usually accommodated thousands of tourists per day got a taste of life without mass tourism – and some of them don’t want all of those people back.

Central Massachusetts has always had to compete against what some in tourism call the three B’s: Boston, beaches and the Berkshires. Now, add a fourth B: betting. On Aug. 24, an MGM casino will open ...

It took a global pandemic for many of us to realize that we live in what Italian journalist and social theorist Marco D’Eramo calls the “Age of Tourism.” As he writes in his new book, The World in a ...

Thousands of people gathered in Spain’s Balearic Islands on Saturday to protest against mass tourism ahead of the upcoming summer season. Tourist numbers in the Spanish archipelago this summer are ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – The state has awarded $5.9 million in grants to 61 cultural and tourism projects statewide, including nineteen in western Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Office of Travel and ...

Along with the usual asks for car rentals and hotel bookings, the European budget airline Ryanair now offers customers the option to pay for a carbon offset when booking online. For those unfamiliar ...

PARIS — Invented in Hawaii, surfing gained popularity in the United States and Australia in the 1950s before becoming a global phenomenon. Now practiced in more than 150 countries, its spread has been ...

Massachusetts tourism industry leaders and workers are seeing positive signs ahead of this year's busy summer season following two years of pandemic-related blows. But, while there's more optimism for ...

From Berkshire theater programs to economic development in the North Quabbin region, Massachusetts House lawmakers approved millions more in tourism spending in the fiscal 2022 budget in hopes of ...