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They were CUTEz before it was cool….LOLz!

Scotland wants you to visit its luscious lochs and rolling hills and the country enlisted the help of Fivla and Vitamin, two VERY stylish Shetland ponies, as a part of its Year of Natural Scotland campaign.

We only have two things to say to this:

Tags: advertisement, business, cute cute cute, ponies, scotland, shetland pony, tourism

And it's for TWO good causes!!!

Zambia is joining the FUN party of banning trophy hunting, following in Kenya and Botswana's footsteps.

Leopard and lion hunting will be banned in 2013, two of the big five of trophy hunting, (elephants, water buffalo and rhinos are the other three). The government hopes the bans will boost ecotourism.

Hunters argue that game hunting is big business for Zambia and

Tags: ban, big game, game hunting, government, hunting, inspiration, politics, tourism, trophy hunting, zambia

Have you heard of the rumor that punching a shark in the nose will make it let go?

Well this guy WRESTLED a shark!!!

While we don't recommend either action, a British tourist kept beachgoers safe from a shark swimming a bit too close to the shore.

This old guy has got some SPUNK!!!! But just your average day at Bulcock Beach right???

LOLz!

Tags: attack, australia, britain, bulcock beach, crazy, shark, tourism, wacky, wrestling

Game hunting has been a major sport in Zambia for a long time, but now that killing animals such as leopards and lions can possibly affect the tourism rate in the country, Minister Sylvia Masebo has put in end to the sport!!

Miz Masebo said:

Tags: game hunting, leopards, lions, sylvia masebo, tourism, wild cats

Like a vision of Barbadian ecstasy!

As if there weren’t already enough reasons to take a trip to the beautiful island of Barbados, Rihanna is giving us even more!

We previously told you how the native Bajan princess is a tourism ambassador for her home country and now we have one of her new ads!

Check out RiRi beaming in her homeland (above)!!

Gurl looks drop dead gorgeous! Who knew dominoes could be so sexy?!

Keep frolicking along that beach, RiRi! Now we feel the need to plan a trip and join you in your beautiful country!!

Tags: ad, bajan, barbados, campaign, diamonds, rihanna, riri, tourism

The critics, the viewers, the Emmys- everyone loves Homeland!

At least, that's what we thought. It turns out at least one person can't stand Showtime's domestic terrorism thriller starring Claire Danes.

Fady Abboud, Lebanon's minister of tourism, believes the show radically misrepresents Beirut as a horribly dangerous city and a haven for terrorists.

Abboud is even considering legal action against the award-winning drama. He says:

"We are following the case legally. I raised this at the cabinet meeting, and the president asked the minister for justice and the minister of communications to see what can be done."

We certainly don't want to be blase that the man is offended, but it's not meant to be a documentary, it's just a TV show!

If we took American Horror Story seriously, we'd have to believe literally EVERYONE is El Lay is a ghost! When really it's mostly ghouls! LOLz!

But srsly, we hope they can come to some sort of arrangement before lawsuits and threats come into it! We're all adults, let's act like it!

[Image via WENN/FayesVision.]

Tags: american horror story, el lay, homeland, lawsuit, lebanon, showtime, thriller, tourism, tv show

Some new confusing statistics were recently released that showed the 2012 London Olympics didn't actually bring in a huge number of tourists.

That's kinda surprising.

The Office for National Statistics said that 3 million people came to Britain during August… 5% fewer than last year!

Tags: business, games, income, london 2012, money, olympics, prices, summer games, tourism, tourists