Norwegian Cruise Line is celebrating the cutting of the first piece of steel for Norwegian Bliss, the line’s sixteenth ship and the first one designed for the ultimate Alaska cruising experience…
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Greece Tourism Revenue Declined Despite Rising Visitor Numbers
Greece tourism faces a paradox – despite record visitor numbers of 17 million people from abroad, the industry revenues have declined in the first eight months of 2016 compared to the same perio…
German Travel Market Changing Preferences
The German travel market has reportedly shrunk because of the crisis in Turkey after years of growth for the first time. According to initial calculations of the German Travel Association (DRV) the re…
Aeroflot sees passenger numbers increase in early 2016
In the first nine months of 2016, Aeroflot Group carried 32.8 million passengers, up 9.2 per cent year-on-year.Aeroflot airline carried 21.7 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 10.4 per cen…
Manchester Airport joins WeChat and Wiebo to cater to Chinese passengers
Manchester Airport has added Weibo and WeChat, the Chinese equivalents of Twitter and Whatsapp, to its range of social media tools in order to better communicate passengers from the destination.The mo…
Airbus Group sees fall in net income
Airbus Group revealed earlier its nine-month net income was €1.81 billion, down five per cent from a figure of €1.90 billion recorded last year.Earnings per share were €2…
Russian Hotels Profiting From Increased Foreign Tourism Inflow
The growing inflow of foreign tourists is of great benefits to the Russian hoteliers, who has been increasing the prices. According to estimates of tour operators, next summer the cost of hotel accomm…
France: Mobile Booking represents 23% Of Reservations
In the second trimester of 2016, a third of online travel bookings in the world was done via mobile devices, compared to 24% for the same period of 2015 – 20% for hotels, 18% for visits, and 12%…
Slovenia becomes the first country in the world with a sustainability rating
The Slovenian Tourist Board in 2015 developed the Green Scheme of Slovenian Tourism, a special programme used to assess the sustainable operations of Slovenian destinations and operators. The first wi…
European Quartet invites travellers from India to ‘Discover Central Europe’
Taking forward a journey that commenced in 2010, the Central European destinations paid their sixth visit to India, encouraging travel fraternity members to ‘Discover Central Europe’ throu…