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The U.S. took in $129 billion in taxes - you read correctly - $129 billion - from revenue generated by the travel and tourism industry.

Fewer Americans will travel for the 2013 Fourth of July holiday, and they will have to spend more money for gas, flights and hotels.

Pakistani officials have suspended mountaineering expeditions to Nanga Parbat after 10 foreign tourists were murdered by the Taliban.

A bus carrying Romanian tourists in Montenegro fell off a bridge into a gorge Sunday, killing at least 18 people and injuring at least 32 others.

Unesco added 19 new sites to its prestigious World Heritage List in 2013, including Mount Etna, Mount Fuji and North Korea's Kaesong.

Nik Wallenda's tightrope walk across a gorge at Little Colorado River Navajo Tribal Park could bring more visitors to Navajo Nation.

Ten foreign tourists attempting to climb Pakistan’s Nanga Parbat were murdered Sunday in a Taliban-linked attack at base camp.

The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor will be back in business just in time for the celebration of the U.S. Independence Day.

Officials have evacuated the small mountain town of South Fork in southwestern Colorado as a wildfire gets within 5 miles of the area.

Southwest Airlines resumed services late midnight on Friday after a computer glitch temporarily grounded flights.

People around the world celebrated the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, on Friday.

One woman is dead, and two others are missing because of a boating accident in Lake Powell between Arizona and Utah.

A Texas police officer received a little surprise when he pulled over a driver during a traffic stop: He was attacked by a pet monkey.

Survivors of the May 20 tornado in Moore, Okla., are reportedly beginning to suffer from the medical condition known as "tornado cough."

It’s supposed to be the best job in the world, and it may just alter the course of Canadian Greg Snell's life.

The Dubai Municipality announced plans this week to build Holy Quran Park, a themed destination designed "from an Islamic perspective."

Air quality in Singapore and Malaysia was labeled as hazardous this week, with officials blaming the haze on illegal forest fires allegedly started by an Indonesian palm oil company.

Some 30,000 hospitality workers in Paris are now armed with a six-page etiquette guide on how to be less rude to visitors.

These are the U.S.' most endangered historic places in 2013, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

These 10 plane crashes -- the worst in commercial aviation history -- have altered the way we travel by air.

Rescue workers evacuated hundreds from area hotels as massive flooding wrecked havoc on the Catholic pilgrimage site in southwest France.

Folk singer Jack Johnson announced his "From Here To Now To You" U.S., Canada and European tour dates for 2013 this week.

An earthquake shook Peru's capital on Tuesday; no injuries have been reported.

Customer satisfaction with the airline industry is up, though it remains one of America's most reviled industries.

A founding member of Gamaa Islamiya, the group responsible for the 1997 massacre at Luxor, was just named the region's new governor.

The 787 saga continues, as a United flight to Tokyo was forced to make an emergency landing in Seattle over an oil filter problem.

A team of archaeologists have used state of the art laser scanner technology to uncover a 1,200 year-old city built during the Khmer Empire.

A man who reportedly had been drinking was mauled by a bear in Alaska this weekend after allegedly feeding the wild animal barbecue.

Airbus expects its profit margin to more than double by 2015, its CEO said, ahead of the 2013 Paris Air Show scheduled to begin on Monday.