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By Dani Morera Trettin and Fabio Teixeira RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – When Carlos Eduardo Muzy first rented his beachside Rio de Janeiro apartment on Airbnb in 2019, he just wanted some extra cash. What he got was a career managing some 100 properties – and a front-row seat to…
“Sorry, but I just work here, I don’t live here,” said a salesperson as I made my way to a shop in a tiny mountain town in Taiwan in late June.It’s a common refrain in Jiufen, just an hour’s drive from the Taiwanese capital of Taipei.I looked intently at my…
By David Dolan TOKYO (Reuters) – Tourists are flocking to Japan to scoop up high-end clothes and handbags at a discount thanks to the weak yen currency. Luxury goods companies like Louis Vuitton parent LVMH would rather they stayed home and shopped. The yen’s sell-off – it hit a 38-year…
By David Ljunggren and Anna Mehler Paperny (Reuters) -A massive wildfire that destroyed about a third of the western Canadian tourist town of Jasper is still out of control but rain and cooler conditions are helping firefighters, authorities said on Friday. Jasper, located in the middle of Alberta’s picturesque Jasper…
By Dave Sherwood and Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) – Russian tourist Serguei Boyaryshnic wandered in awe among the pastel-colored buildings and cobblestone streets of Old Havana on a weekday morning, his family in tow. “We had heard a lot about Cuba. Our countries have been friends for years,” said the…
