Tourists tips

Tourists in Benidorm have been warned about “piranha-style” fish after a number of attacks in Alicante.

Red heat alerts are in place for 16 cities across Italy with temperatures set to reach 40°C.

On any given day in Thailand’s Maya Bay, up to 40 blacktip reef sharks cruise in the cyan shallows while about 4,000 tourists visit its white-sand beach flanked by towering cliffs.

The number of foreign tourists who arrived in India this year from January to April is 166 percent higherthan a year earlier, Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddysaid at the inaugural session of the fourth G20 tourism working group meeting in Goa. “India’s inbound travel is expected to reach pre-pandemic level in 2023,” he said. Last year, the country received 6.19 million foreign tourist arrivals. Earningsfrom tourism more than doubled from $8 billion in 2021 to $16.4 billion in 2022, according to the government’s provisional estimates.

Tourists are often considered an obnoxious and intrusive bunch, but some are so bad they make international headlines.