Tourism: the beginning of the rebound?
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A Ukrainian tourist poses for a photo near the Hagia Sophia Mosque in Sultanahmet in Istanbul, May 9, 2021 © BULENT KILIC / AFP
By: Frédérique Lebel
22 mins
Will summer be placed under the sign of recovery?
And more particularly in tourism.
Half of the world's expenditure related to the sector is made in Europe.
In Turkey, for example, it's 5% of GDP.
If professionals do not expect a dark year like in 2020, they remain cautious.
Welcoming half the number of tourists compared to a normal year would already be a success… In Istanbul, Anne Andlauer.
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Radically different situation in Russia, where the borders have been closed since the start of the pandemic.
Foreign tourists may be able to return, but for the Russians prevented from traveling outside their borders, it was necessary to reorganize.
Result: local tourism is picking up steam.
Crimea, Karelia and the Caucasus should replace many departures to Turkey and Egypt this year.
In Moscow, Jean Cassey.
Thiepval Memorial
A memorial engraved with the names of 72,000 South African and British soldiers.
Dead for France.
The Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916 was one of the deadliest of the First World War.
And it is in a small village on the Somme in Thiepval that this monument is located in their memory.
Today, it needs to be restored, a job that the French and the British are doing hand in hand,
Lise Verbeke.
Chronicle In a nutshell: swear words!
How many insults can one endure in the dialogues of a film?
And above all, how many insults and which ones are acceptable to children's ears?
Swear words are in the spotlight today in our In a Word column.
In the United Kingdom, the body responsible for classifying films, especially those banned under the age of 18, asked linguists to look into the insults.
In London, Marie Billon.
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