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                <description>The best of the European press in 10 languages</description>
                <language>en</language><item><title>Tourism | What did you see in Auschwitz? (Télérama, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1444921-what-did-you-see-auschwitz</link><description><![CDATA[Every year more than a million people visit Auschwitz. In the run-up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the liberation of the camp on 27 January, Télérama wonders: Is this mass tourism not to some extent a profanation of memory? (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:20:32 +0100</pubDate><guid>1444921</guid></item>
<item><title>Spain | Glass almost empty for binging Brits abroad (The Independent, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/899461-glass-almost-empty-binging-brits-abroad</link><description><![CDATA[Following riots on the Costa Brava, and hotel balcony deaths in Majorca, the Spanish authorities are increasingly looking at ways to crack down on alcohol tourism. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:12:03 +0100</pubDate><guid>899461</guid></item>
<item><title>Romania | The totalitarian tourist trail</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/867711-totalitarian-tourist-trail</link><description><![CDATA[<p>Following the example of China and North Korea, Romania will soon have its own tourist trail devoted to the glories of Communism. More than 20 years after the fall of Nicolae Ceauşescu, the country&rsquo;s ministry of tourism has announced the creation of a &quot;propaganda itinerary,&quot; which will take in specific places that figured large in the life of the &quot;Conducător.&quot; According to the minister concerned, the initiative is justified, among other reasons, by the fact that &quot;50 per cent of Romanians, who believe that life was better under his rule, regret the passing of the dictator,&quot; while &quot;40 per cent believe that Communism was a good thing.&quot;</p>
<p>For columnist Sabina Fati, &quot;Dictators continue to exert an appeal even after their death. However, democratic governments avoid entering into a spiral of posthumous fascination.&rdquo; She <a target="_self" href="http://www.romanialibera.ro/opinii/editorial/romania-are-nevoie-de-ceausescu-234584.html">also points out</a> that tourist initiatives that focus on dictatorships in other countries, like Germany and Serbia, tend to be &quot;organised by the far left  &ndash;  the glorification of the Berlin Wall  &ndash;  or private entrepreneurs  &ndash;  Tito&rsquo;s 'Blue Train'&quot;. However, &quot;No government minister in Madrid would ever dream of creating a tourist trail that followed in the footsteps of Franco.&quot;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p> (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:30:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>867711</guid></item>
<item><title>A town in Europe | How Palomares survived the bomb (Público, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/519421-how-palomares-survived-bomb</link><description><![CDATA[Victim of the accidental fall on its soil of four American nuclear bombs in 1966, Palomares in Spain is trying to make a fresh start and to get back onto the tourist trail by opening a museum. But a question remains: what to do with the irradiated earth? (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:45:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>519421</guid></item>
<item><title>Tourism | Chinese are the new Americans (La Repubblica, Rome)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/476511-chinese-are-new-americans</link><description><![CDATA[Buoyed by the emergence of China’s middle class, the growing wave of travelers from China could revitalise the European tourist industry. But businesses in the sector have yet to adapt to their new customers. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:34:03 +0100</pubDate><guid>476511</guid></item>
<item><title>Spain | Barcelona, 7 million visitors can&#039;t be wrong</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/435251-barcelona-7-million-visitors-cant-be-wrong</link><description><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Barcelona announces record tourist figures to end 2010,&quot; <a href="http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/barcelona/20101220/barcelona-despedira-con-lleno-hotelero-mejor-ano-turistico/630766.shtml" target="_blank">headlines </a><a href="http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/barcelona/20101220/barcelona-despedira-con-lleno-hotelero-mejor-ano-turistico/630766.shtml" target="_blank"><em>El Peri&oacute;dico</em></a>. According to the Barcelona daily, with more than seven million visitors, the Catalan capital has &quot;reported a record year for its tourist business&quot;  &ndash;  a result which has coincided with the inauguration of <a href="http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/sociedad/20101220/alta-velocidad-cruza-pirineo/631009.shtml" target="_blank">the high-speed rail link</a> between Figueres (Spain) and Perpignan (France). Delighted by the figures, El Peri&oacute;dico remarks that Barcelona benefits from &quot;a price-quality ratio&quot; unrivalled by other European capitals. <a href="http:// http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/opinion/20101220/barcelona-supera/631013.shtml" target="_blank">The newspaper argues</a> in favour of imposing a tax on tourists visiting the city, and specific measures to counter the theme-park effect that is noticeable in historic cities with large numbers of visitors.</p> (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:27:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>435251</guid></item>
<item><title>Travel | Krakow and Warsaw, sibling rivals (Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/375121-krakow-and-warsaw-sibling-rivals</link><description><![CDATA[The eternal rivalry between Poland’s former and the current capitals has lead to intense competition in the field of tourism. It is a hard-fought battle in which visitors to the two cities will be the main winners. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:40:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>375121</guid></item>
<item><title>A town in Europe | Berlin, the new Tel Aviv (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/333171-berlin-new-tel-aviv</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;You’ve never experienced a city like this one before,” they say. Berlin is the European city of choice for Israelis. Above and beyond bitter remembrances of expulsion and extermination, what they seek there now is, first and foremost, fun. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:48:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>333171</guid></item>
<item><title>Tourism | Kosmopolitan Kaliningrad (Cafebabel.com, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/141011-kosmopolitan-kaliningrad</link><description><![CDATA[Sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland, the once forbidding Russian exclave of Kaliningrad now benefits from federal money and oil revenues. Cafebabel.com reports from a city that now offers that familiar mix of Moscow trash and flash. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:12:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>141011</guid></item>
<item><title>Germany | Cologne is not just a perfume (Cafebabel.com, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/123351-cologne-not-just-perfume</link><description><![CDATA[It’s no happy coincidence - Eau de Cologne, or cologne, world renowned for centuries, has benefitted from the ideal geographical location of the city that gave it a name. Cafébabel reports from the town that is not just about your granny&#039;s 4711. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:00:52 +0100</pubDate><guid>123351</guid></item>
<item><title>Tourism | Don't celebrate, escalate (Der Spiegel, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/58691-don-t-celebrate-escalate</link><description><![CDATA[Every year, tens of thousands of German secondary school graduates descend by the busload on the beaches of Southern Europe to party, now that they are done with their finals: both a bonanza and a poisoned chalice for the towns hosting these binging teens. A report from the Spanish Costa Brava. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:36:01 +0100</pubDate><guid>58691</guid></item>
<item><title>Memory Lane | Bussing to the new frontier (Lidové noviny , Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/55891-bussing-new-frontier</link><description><![CDATA[In 1989, after the collapse of the communist regime, Czechoslovakian buses trundled out to the four corners of Europe...and its shopping centres. Lidové Noviny remember a time of adventure galore round the corner from every car park. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:45:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>55891</guid></item>
<item><title>Price wars | Shopping without borders (Respekt, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1331-shopping-without-borders</link><description><![CDATA[Slovakians increasingly travel to neighbouring countries where basic supermarkets items are markedly cheaper. The advent of the euro goes some way to explaining this new economic tourism, but not only. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 16:15:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>1331</guid></item>
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