Amsterdam could soon ban tourists from buying cannabis in the capital city to reduce the number of visitors. The mayor of the city is looking for ways to prevent overtourism ruining the city. Femke Halsema, the mayor of Amsterdam, commissioned a study to see the affect a cannabis ban would have on travellers. Many tourists …

An American woman who entered Malaysia after disembarking from a cruise ship in Cambodia was the latest person to be diagnosed with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country on Saturday. The Malaysian Health Ministry said in a statement that the patient, who is 83 years old, was among the passengers aboard a cruise that docked …

A 26-year-old Ontario woman died after contracting dengue fever while attending a friend’s destination wedding in Jamaica. Jodie Dicks from Toronto, Ont., contracted a severe case of dengue fever while attending her friend’s destination wedding in Jamaica. After spending a few days in a Jamaican hospital, she was flown to a Florida medical centre, where …

Tributes have flooded in from the devastated family and friends of British backpacker Stephanie Simpson who was found dead in New Zealand on a hiking holiday.   Ms Simpson, 32, from Essex, was reported missing on Monday after she failed to return from a weekend trek and her remains were found in a creek today at …

More than 10,000 people in villages near Vietnam’s capital were placed under quarantine on Thursday (Feb 13) after six cases of the deadly new coronavirus were discovered there, authorities said. In the first mass quarantine outside of China since the virus emerged there in late December, the Son Loi farming region about 40km from Hanoi will be locked …

The CEO of Hilton Worldwide Holdings, which operates more than 6,100 hotels across the globe, has confirmed the closure of “roughly 150” hotels in China amid the current outbreak of COVID-19, formerly known as the novel coronavirus. In an earnings call on Tuesday, which coincided with the company’s fourth-quarter report, president and CEO Christopher J. Nassetta said Hilton would …

Another 44 people have today tested positive for coronavirus on board a quarantined cruise ship in Japan.  The dozens of new cases bring the total on board the Diamond Princess to 218, in addition to a quarantine officer who tested positive yesterday.  The remaining 3,500 passengers and crew are confined to their cabins with questions mounting about whether …

A Canadian tourist drowned in An Bang Beach in Hoi An ancient town Wednesday, local authorities have confirmed. Frederic Kebirou, 59, went for a swim in An Bang at around 9 a.m., but was swept away by the waves, deputy chairman Nguyen Van Quang of the Cam An Ward People’s Committee in the central Vietnam …

A drunk passenger on an EasyJet flight from Manchester, England, to Iceland made his phone a snack after a violent outburst, which prompted the flight to make an emergency landing in Edinburgh, Scotland. Matthew Flaherty, 44, was charged Monday with disorderly conduct, acting in a manner likely to endanger others, and uttering threats of violence and racial remarks …

A woman who yelled “I’m going to kill you all” and tried to open the door of a plane midway through a flight has been jailed for two years. 26-year-old Chloe Haines was handed the prison sentence at Chelmsford Crown Court on Wednesday following an incident on board a flight from Stansted Airport on 22 …

Two female tourists were allegedly caught shoplifting bikinis at a local shop in Canggu, Bali and forced to apologize in what has become a viral video.  In the public Facebook video posted by TJ Agung, two unidentified females were attempting to steal multiple bikinis from the Mermaids Swimwear Boutique in Canggu Bali when they were …

Another 66 passengers onboard a cruise liner quarantined in Japan have tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the number of infected people on the ship to 136. Japanese officials said the new diagnoses among 3,700 passengers and crew onboard the Diamond Princess included 45 people from Japan, 11 from the US, four from Australia, three from the Philippines and …