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Topic filterTourism and travel news API
Visitor numbers, aviation routes, hospitality and destination policy. Pass topic=TOURISM to filter.
What does the tourism and travel topic actually cover?
Visitor and arrival figures, route and capacity changes, hospitality investment, destination policy including entry rules and taxes, and travel advisories. Promotional material and reporting are unusually hard to tell apart on this topic.
How do I filter news to tourism and travel?
Pass topic=TOURISM on /search or /stories. Pair with a country or a city; tourism is a destination story almost by definition. Filtering to a known outlet set is more effective here than on most topics, because the promotional layer is concentrated in identifiable trade and destination-marketing titles.
GET /stories?topic=TOURISM&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20What catches people out with tourism and travel coverage?
Counting promotion as coverage. Destination marketing organisations, airlines and hotel groups generate a large and consistent share of the volume, and it is written to look like reporting. An unfiltered query measures marketing spend at least as much as it measures interest, and the two move independently.
Who publishes on it
Travel trade press covers routes, capacity and investment in useful detail. Destination and regional press covers local impact and policy. National business sections engage when the numbers are economically significant. The promotional layer runs through all three and is densest in the trade press.
In the sample, 550 outlets carry tourism and travel coverage at about 2
articles each. The busiest is 163.com at roughly 2%,
and 163.com, tribunnews.com, baomoi.com account for about 5% between them.
Flat enough that volume here translates fairly directly into independent reporting rather than one newsroom publishing repeatedly.
What it is best for
Best for route changes, entry-rule changes and advisories — things with a date and an authority behind them. Weakest for demand, which is measured by arrivals data and only appears in news when someone wants it publicised.
Monitoring it over time
Strongly seasonal, so compare year-over-year rather than against the previous month or you will rediscover the summer every year. Advisories and entry-rule changes are the genuinely time-critical items and they come from a small number of government sources, which makes an outlet-scoped query far more useful than a broad one.
Which signals pair with tourism and travel?
Topic filtering answers what an article is about. Signals answer how strongly it reads that way and in what register, so combining them is usually sharper than either alone.
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GET /search?topic=TOURISM&signal=transportation&signal_min=0.25Recent coverage
From the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.
- Ontario Mall Hours: Civic Holiday 2026 (Aug. 3)
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- US trend for sticking chewing gum at tourist sites lands in Europe's historic cities - but doctors warn visitors they're creating 'walls of bacteria'
- Pune Rain Alert: IMD Forecasts Extremely Heavy Rain In Ghats, Heavy Showers Across District Until August 4
- Yan'an in China's Shaanxi attracts visitors during summer vacation-Xinhua
- Modern Public Toilet-Washroom opening soon at Rajshahi's T-bandh
- 在沈阳西塔，感受别样烟火浪漫-新华网辽宁频道
- Baden-Württemberg: Mehrere Feste sagen Feuerwerke wegen Waldbrandgefahr ab
Who covers it
163.com · tribunnews.com · baomoi.com · euronews.com · inewsgr.com · zazoom.it · haberler.com · ansa.it · kompas.com · baidu.com · reportur.com · andaluciainformacion.es
Counts are provisional pending a snapshot against the API.