We would never have guessed this, but Uruguay is South America’s fourth biggest wine producer, and now the owners of the fertile vineyards are making a major push to attract wine-tourists. If you’re like us you thought all they...

Singer M.I.A.’s sister, Kari Arulpragasam, has come out with “Tourism” - a series from her “Super Fertile” jewelry line. The designs focus their attention on socio-political and economic conditions in countries such as Sudan, Haiti and Iraq. And, while...

Mexicans, not content to steal jobs from and rape babies belonging to U.S. Americans, are starting to make their way into Canada: The U.K. remained by far Canada’s top overseas tourism market last year while the number of Mexicans...

Tijuana often gets a bad rep. People think its little more than a place to buy cheap Vicodin and catch a horrific disease, but it’s so much more than that. There’s, like, culture and tradition. And Vicodin. So meet...

Argentina is considering limiting tourism to Antarctica because of the environmental impact it has on the continent’s wildlife. You might have to rethink your plans to spend this Spring Break doing body shots off a sweet-ass penguin this year:...

While most states are very anti-illegal alien, New Mexico’s new tourism campaign is all about them. Space aliens, that is. Heh. But could this be a thinly veiled attempt to attract other kinds of aliens? Some locals think it’s...

Ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic vine used by the Incas and the Amazon Indians for ages, is drawing hordes of tourists seeking its “magical” properties to Peru. The vine is also being touted by some doctors for its psychiatric therapeutic benefits....

In stark contrast with their previous stance towards their other neighbors to the south, Canada’s tourism department in Toronto is launching a media campaign to attract more Mexicans to Toronto as a tourist destination. The media campaign promotes Toronto...

Hat tip—oh, we went there—to Mi Blog Es Tu Blog for this kernel: An international reproductive health organization outta the U.K. has apologized to the Mexican government for distributing the ad seen here at a handful of British clinics,...

A poll of over 1,000 British tourists has revealed that New York’s Times Square and Statue of Liberty are the 3rd and 5th-most overrated sights of interest in the entire world, respectively. (Clearly, they can’t relate to the joy...

Here’s something for all you hard-core backpackers who are down for the genuine, local experience. Sinaloa, the northern Mexican state that spawned the country’s most fearsome drug cartel, hopes to lure tourists to rustic cabins in a rugged area...

Apparently, the largest fighting bulls in all of Spain are also the nation’s bitchiest. Yesterday, these so-called Miura bulls were unleashed on throngs of tourists at the San Fermin Festival’s second of eight bull runs in Pamplona, where they...

A new study shows that gentrified Times Square has an annual economic output of $53 billion. That’s more than the gross domestic products of Bolivia and Panama combined. But those countries have no Hawaiian Tropic Zone and billions less...