For many years Buddhist travelers visiting New Delhi were rather passive. According to the latest statistics, Buddhist travelers made around 10-12 percent of the total of 4.63 million tourists who visited India in 2006-7. Interest in Buddhist tourists, however, is growing as more and more pilgrims from Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Korea and already from Mainland [...]
Travel agencies have been ordered to stop arranging trips to Tibet for foreigners in order to apparently “secure safe passage” for the Olympic torch to Mount Everest in May. The decision reverses last week’s announcement by tourism officials that Tibet would reopen to foreigners on May 1. The Globe and Mail has posted more information [...]
In August last year, the Vatican created the world’s first airline for catholic pilgrims. Flying to Fatima in Portugal, Santiago de Compostela in Spain, Mount Sinai, the Holy Land and, eventually, Guadalupe in Mexico and Las Vegas in the United States, the aircraft owned are colored in the Vatican colors of yellow and white. In-flight [...]
Last month’s deadly riots in Tibet, a wonderful region known for it’s majestic scenery and exotic religious culture, has had its impact felt on an otherwise fast-growing tourism industry as the government bars foreign visitors. Because the ban on inbound tourists, as well as a lack of local ones, travel agents, hotels and shops in [...]