Britain’s most popular seaside resort isn’t being marketed to foreign visitors. Are the tourist authorities a little bit ashamed?

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Why does Britain seem ashamed of Blackpool?

MEXICO CITY — The timing couldn’t have been worse. As Mexican President Felipe Calderon was unveiling a new campaign and TV program Tuesday to draw wary tourists back to his country, warring gangs dumped 35 bodies at a busy intersection in the tourist zone in the coastal city of Veracruz. No one suggests that the events are related, but the gruesome appearance of two truckloads of bloody corpses in front of a large Veracruz shopping mall at rush hour — just a few blocks from a hotel where state prosecutors were holding a meeting — dominated the news cycle here and threatened to overwhelm Calderon’s campaign to woo tourists. Read full article > >

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35 dead in Mexican tourist town

Gunmen opened fire Saturday in a downtown bar in the tourist district of Guadalajara, Mexico, killing six people and wounding another 37, the Jalisco state prosecutor said.

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6 dead, 37 hurt in Mexico bar shooting

Los Angeles is struggling to bring funds and crowds to the Watts Towers, a celebrated work of folk art far off the tourist track.

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Budget Cuts Threaten a Hidden Treasure in Watts

More loggerhead sea turtles nest on the Greek island of Zakynthos than anywhere else in the Mediterranean but they are at risk from the tourist trade.

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Hospital for threatened sea turtles