Tebbutt was abducted from a safari lodge in the popular Kenyan tourist town of Lamu in September.
In Rio de Janeiro state, flooding and mudslides turned the once-picturesque tourist town of Teresopolis into a wasteland.
Before 1990, Suzhou was a beautiful tourist town, the home of many garden villas that were the summer homes of Ming and Qing Dynasty officials.
Thousands of miles away, the Gateway's kitchen at the tourist town of Khajuraho in central India has been home for a month now to 62-year-old Santosh Pataria.
Just in the past few weeks, 17-year-old Anene Booyson died after being gang-raped and mutilated in the tiny tourist town of Bredasdorp, two hours southeast of Cape Town.
The popular 10km trail to reach the base of Naranjo de Bulnes begins at the mouth of the Garganta del Cares in the village of Poncebos, 6km from the popular tourist town of Arenas de Cabrales.
The long term aim of the railway trust is to reconnect the Llangollen line back to the national network at Ruabon and use it as a park-and-ride service for people coming to and from the tourist town.
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The spiky "A Tourist Town" draws its inspiration from Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat" and quotes the Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime, " while "This Place Is on TV" reveals its interest in morphing chamber pop into electronica.
Blackpool Illuminations will be lit for an extra week in 2013 to extend the resort's tourist season, the town's council has announced.
Almost all of Bonito's tours need to be booked through an official tourist agency in the town and require an accredited guide, although this is organised at the time of booking.
"The economic downturn has had an effect on the town and there have been other setbacks, but we want Machynlleth to be a thriving market town and tourist destination once more, " he added.
In the mid-Nineties the town imposed a tourist tax and the ships pulled out.
The monument is also a route to earthly salvation, in the form of tourist spending, for this town of about 22, 000 souls.
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More recently, the authorities tried to develop Bam by rebuilding the ancient town as a tourist attraction and by building a car factory on the edge of the desert.
The bird scourge hasn't had an economic impact on the Ostend tourist trade yet, which welcomes around 3.4 million day-trippers each year, as well as 500, 000 overnight stays, said Pieter Hens, an official with the town's tourist bureau.
The restaurant is considered a vital tourist attraction by people in the town.
Regensburg once was a Roman garrison town and is a celebrated tourist site.
Visit Lycian rock tombs in the cliffs above the main tourist centre of Fethiye or the eerie Greek ghost town of Kayakoy, which was abandoned when its Orthodox people were exiled in 1923 during an exchange of minority religious populations between Turkey and Greece.
The crocodiles escaped from the Rakwena Crocodile Farm, a tourist site about 15km (nine miles) from the small town of Pontdrif, which borders Botswana.
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The government is hoping that Western donors will help finance the building of the town, and that it will become a major tourist attraction, our correspondent says.
Having a presence in the town centre would help to promote the area as a tourist destination, the trust said.
This image was taken in Cairu, a town in Bahia state that is a bit off the tourist beaten path.
The attack took place shortly after midnight at the police station in Mingora, a town in Swat Valley, once Pakistan's biggest tourist draw, where security has continued to deteriorate despite a peace pact.
Prashant Bajaj, an Indian tourist who was spending his honeymoon with his wife Risha in Cape Town, told the BBC's Mohammed Allie that it was the availability of the latest technology that attracted them to use Escape to the Cape.
The item had been a tourist attraction on the quayside at Falmouth Docks after it was donated to the town following an exhibition at the National Maritime Museum.
Police had been on alert for possible attacks by ETA in tourist destinations after a suspected member of the group was killed in the coastal town of Torrevieja, near Alicante, when explosives she was handling blew up on Tuesday.
It wants the army to withdraw from a town near San Vicente, and consumer countries to pay for an alternative development programme and tourist centre there.
Tourist information counters at the airport or in Narita City have maps and other info in English, and in town many shops have English signage.
While low-paying, service-sector jobs are the low-hanging fruit of the resort town job market, doctors, electricians, teachers and other professionals can all earn comfortable salaries in sublime tourist destinations around the world.
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