British Airways will suspend its direct flights between Durban and London as part of a network reduction due to the impact of COVID-19.Durban-Heathrow is just one of 13 destinations earmarked for susp…
Chile’s tourism sector is losing the employees
Chile’s National Statistics Institute (INE) released the Employment Bulletin in Tourism Characteristic Activities (ACTs) for the September-October-November rolling quarter of 2020. The number of…
Swan Hellenic opens North America office as relaunch approaches
Swan Hellenic has announced the opening of its North America office.Based in Fort Lauderdale, the location will offer personal service across the United States, Canada and Mexico, including through a …
IATA Travel Pass digital health solution to be rolled out to major airlines in March
IATA’s head of airport, passenger and security products, Alan Murray Hayden, says fast progress is being made to bring its Travel Pass digital health credential solution to market, and “mo…
The outlook of the European aviation sector is not rosy
While the aviation sector was hit hard all over the world, it seems that European companies were affected the most. According to the latest data, Europe lost more than half of its airline seat capacit…
Tourism in italy dropped to 1969 levels
A disastrous year has come to an end for tourism in Italy. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, tourism sales have plummeted to the same levels of 1969. This was reported by the tourism association A…
How to benefit from TikTok in tourism marketing
Up to 60 seconds long videos, underlaid with music and spiced up with graphic effects. This is how TikTok users present themselves to their audience on this social media platform which is gaining impo…
Bucket list experience: Gorilla trekking in Rwanda
Seeing the mountain gorillas in East Africa has been on my bucket list ever since I saw the 2014 documentary, Virunga, which tells the story of the rangers in the DRC who have risked their lives to ke…
Top tips for travelers in 2021
At first, the coronavirus paralyzed most of the planet’s tourist activities . To avoid contagion, trips were reduced or cancelled, so the governments try to reduce the COVID-19 cases. For this r…
Carnival reports huge fourth quarter loss
Carnival Corporation has reported a net loss of $2.2 billion for the fourth quarter of financial 2020.The result comes as the Covid-19 crisis continues to take its toll on cruising and a number of Car…