Lapland, northern Finnish region, is experiencing a tourism boom this Christmas after the previous pandemic-hit Christmases. Fabled as the home of Father Christmas, Lapland is all set to enjoy a bumper tourist season during the upcoming holiday period. Sanna Kärkkäinen, …

ABTA’s Director of Public Affairs, Luke Petherbridge, appeared at the House of Lords European Affairs Committee on Tuesday 13 December to give evidence to its inquiry into the future of the UK-EU relationship. The session was examining mobility of workers …

FITUR, the International Tourism Trade Fair, organised by IFEMA MADRID, which will be held from 18 to 22 January, will once again highlight talent and education & training as drivers of tourism development and economic momentum in its FITUR Talent section.

The study conducted by OVO Network considers the number of Michelin star restaurants, luxury spas and 5-star hotels per one million tourists, the safety index and luxury search trends across 37 of Europe’s most popular city-break destinations.

ABTA has kicked off the first phase of its latest Travel with confidence advertising campaign, on one of UK’s the biggest commercial radio stations – Heart Digital UK – today. 

Europe is one of the busiest regions in the world, due to its unique position as arguably the most strategic group of international continental destinations for arrivals and transfers from other regions, arriving at and passing through Europe.

The highest seasonality was registered in the Bulgarian area of Yugoiztochen (71 per cent), where seven out of ten nights were spent in those two months.

Sri Lanka’s tourism sector has shown some recovery path after the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis-led political crisis. But the recovery has been far below the expectation and the industry is looking for more innovative steps to boost high-end tourist arrivals.

In 2021, the South Aegean was the best performing region exceeding by 30 percent the other regions in Greece in terms of tourist spending and arrivals.

To reach its target, the government’s marketing spending would jump fivefold from 200 million drams ($510,000) in 2022 to 1 billion drams ($2.5 million) in 2023.