As tourist taxes climb, the rental car industry, at least, is fighting back.

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In a separate incident in the same month, a confidential social work file was found by a tourist after being dropped in a car park in Dumfries.

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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.

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Yet car shows at art museums are often regarded more as tourist-bait than serious curatorial projects.

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Its members are more accustomed to shooting at tourist buses from sugar-cane fields than forging passports or designing car-bombs.

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The family - including Mr al-Hilli's dentist wife Iqbal, 47, and her mother, were murdered in their car while on holiday near Chevaline, close to the tourist destination of Lake Annecy.

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He said the route would cut car journeys and also confirmed that the project would allow for tourist trains at Tweedbank station.

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The most accessible village by car, and the only Cinque Terre settlement to sport a tourist beach, is Monterosso, which is the furthest west and least quintessential of the quintet (it was briefly ditched from the group in the 1940s).

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One recent victim was a Norwegian tourist who was held up, robbed, blindfolded and locked in the boot of a car by several uniformed police.

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