India is dealing with more than just all the rapes that have been reported recently by Indian women. They're losing major tourism money, as the fear of sexual assault has already caused one tourist to jump out of a window, just one incident among many that's stirring up enough negative press to lower the number of…
Massively successful room-renting service Airbnb is now illegal in New York City: officials say the startup violates an illegal hotel law that prevents residents from renting out their property for fewer than 29 days.
Only about ten percent of the 8 million people who live in the United Arab Emirates, one of the world's wealthiest nations, are actually Emirati citizens; the rest are Western expats or Asian, African and Middle Eastern guest workers. Most locals are fans of Western pop culture, but there's one foreign form of…
Governments are usually so boring, right? (At least on the surface.) America is such a bunch of liars. American political PR is all about paving over human weirdnesses with neutered, socially acceptable "types"—Family Mans, Soccer Moms, Joes-the-Plumber—when you know in secret these dudes are pooping in diapers (sexually…
When you sit and ponder what the future will be like, the first question that comes to your mind is almost definitely "Who will I be fucking?" Right? Well, maybe the question would be more accurately phrased as "What will I be fucking?" But no matter how you ask it, the answer is sex robots. Yes, in the future, we will all …
The country of Sweden is known for lutfisk, stoic, tall Nordicolk who would make perfect Die Hard villains, furniture, and getting the fuck along. Now, the country's got a new face: and she's a lesbian who drives a truck for a living.
A "birthing tourism" center in Southern California has been shut down, drawing new attention to the phenomenon of affluent Chinese and Taiwanese mothers traveling to the U.S. to give birth.
The Australian government will pay $2.8 million for the privilege of having Oprah visit the country. A former tourism minister says Australians shouldn't be "cynical about the cost" because the publicity Oprah's trip will generate, "is something you couldn't buy."
To "promote gay-friendly tourism in Mexico City," the tourism minister has offered a free honeymoon to the first gay couple to wed in Argentina, which yesterday became the first country in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage.
[Berlin, March 10. Image via Getty]
Forks, WA, has seen such a tourism boom from the Twilight series it's now getting a vamp-themed restaurant. What's on the menu, Jezzies? Blood? Celery stalk(er)s? The "Holy Shit, This Is My Vacation" skillet? [Hollywood Reporter]
The Padaung, Burmese women famous for their elongated necks, are a popular tourist attraction - and some say they're basically being enslaved:
Thai officals approve a "human zoo" with the famed long-necked women, many of whom are refugees from Myanmar. • Indian sex workers can now get life insurance, but their profession remains illegal. • Snickers, Doritos, and Peanut M&Ms are the most popular vending machine snacks. • A child who formed in her mother's liver…
According to the LA Times, Mandy Gresh, 28, and her boyfriend decided to go on a little vacation to Quebec City. She booked plane tickets and a hotel room for a four-day weekend. Sounds great, right? Well, Mandy and her boyfriend had been together for six weeks. Mandy tells the paper: "I was like, 'Oh my god, the trip…
