The U.S. Senate adopted three provisions from the Blueprint to Discover America, a document introduced by the Travel Industry Association, in partnership with the Travel Business Roundtable and Discover America Partnership.

Bulgaria occupies the last spot among EU countries on investment in innovations, research of European statistics service Eurostat showed. Only 16 percent of the Bulgarian companies were involved in innovation activities, Eurostat said as quoted by Capital weekly. The study involved EU countries, Norway and Iceland.

A new travel portal has launched that aims to introduce travel opportunities in the Baltics and make it easy and convenient for travelers to plan a vacation.

A quick-thinking French tourist outwitted a Dutch thief after the thief tried to snatch his bag, Amsterdam police said Wednesday. After winning a brief tug-of-war over the sports bag, the 27-year-old tourist ran into a nearby police station with the thief in hot pursuit.

Argentina will rent two radar devices to bolster air safety after a lightning bolt damaged the system used to track flights at the country’s two largest airports, President Nestor Kirchner said.

Overwhelmed by unprecedented demand, the State Department is warning would-be travelers to brace for lengthy delays in getting U.S. passports, even when they pay a hefty fee to speed their applications. The Department has hired hundreds of employees to process passport requests over the past two years as tougher immigration rules have taken effect.