14 FEB: Las Vegas has avoided the US financial downturn, attracting 38.9m visitors last year - an increase of 4.3% on 2010 and the best figure since the 39.2m who hit the gambling capital in 2007.

9 FEB: Hotels in Manhattan will provide employees with panic buttons as part of a new seven-year labour contract.

8 FEB: The US National Park Service is banning the sale of plastic water bottles within Grand Canyon National Park.

8 FEB: Terrified tourists hid under seats when their coach was attacked by Bengal tigers during a safari park visit in the eastern China city of Jinan, it was reported yesterday.

8 FEB: Euro Disney, which operates the Paris Disneyland resort said yesterday that first-quarter sales rose just over 1% after it attracted more visitors despite difficult conditions - a reference to the eurozone crisis.

2 FEB: An animal rights group has urged Gold Coast theme park Sea World to stop serving fish dishes, the Sydney Daily Telegraph reports today.

31 JAN: Mexico has shrugged off global coverage of its savage, drug-related violence to predict record visitor figures for 2012.

27 JAN: Bedouin tribesmen have stormed a tourist resort in Egypt's Sinai peninsula in an effort to reclaim land, UK newspaper The Guardian reports.

27 JAN: Disney is relaxing its strict employee dress code to allow more facial hair.

19 JAN: Poland is looking for an investor to turn the 'Wolf's Lair' of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler into a tourist attraction, according to a report today by news agency Reuters.