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...Little more than 60 miles (100 km) from Thailand's fabled beaches lies another land that has far more in common with the barbed-wire disquiet of Iraq or Afghanistan than the sunny image projected in tourist brochures. Nearly every day, violence - motorcycle bombs, shootings, arson attacks, beheadings - claims another life in Thailand's three southernmost provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, which, unlike the rest of the Buddhist-majority country, are 80% Muslim. The region was a Malay sultanate until the early 20th century when Thailand annexed it. While members of both faiths have been killed by Muslim militants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: Aiming For Parity | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...became clear relatively quickly, however, that the presumable motive for the meeting—a discussion of how best to “communicate beauty”—masked an exercise in negative aesthetics. No tourist will ever mistake the Vatican for the MoMA; the church’s vision for a new art seems mostly to be an art that won’t offend said church...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: The Art of the Matter | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...like drinking in the afternoon but don’t have a tailgate to attend:Who needs tailgates when you can take a tour of Samuel Adams Brewery? Play tourist, take in history, and sip some free beer while you’re at it (with ID, of course).30 Germania Street, Friday, 10:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m, Saturday, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Admission free but donations welcome...

Author: By Kriti Lodha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Get Out! | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

Swiss Path brochures are available from the Lucerne Tourist Office, tel: (41-41) 227 1717, luzern.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swiss Pleasure Path | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...Iran-backed minority coalition finally agreed on a new power-sharing Cabinet. But while the deal ends the three-year political crisis that brought the country to the brink of civil war, it doesn't address the question underlying the dispute: Should Lebanon be a Westward-looking business-oriented tourist playground, or a frontline bastion of resistance to Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beneath Lebanon's New Political Deal, a Fear of Violence | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

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