People are determined to travel for some much-needed escapism from the realities of everyday life. That’s according to ABTA’s new report – Travel in 2023. The report reveals the biggest travel trends for the year ahead and is based on …

ABTA has welcomed the extension of business rate support for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses announced in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement. The support, which has been available to travel agents as a Covid-19 recovery measure, was due to end in …

The sharpest declines in tourist arrivals were recorded in the Baltic States and Eastern European countries bordering Russia or Ukraine, still on the average recording drops of approximately 40% compared to 2019 arrivals.

Short-haul travel currently makes up around 72% of total visits in Europe and is set to grow in popularity for the remainder of the year.

In September 2022, 28.6 million passengers were carried in the region, 1.2% more than in the same month of 2019. It even exceeded this number by 1.2%, making it the first region in the world to achieve this milestone. Countries like Mexico, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic have fueled the recovery.

The Union Secretary of Ministry of Tourism, Arvind Singh and Additional Secretary, Rakesh Kumar Verma, met with Liz Ortiguera, Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) CEO and deliberated on thorough rendezvous between PATA and India counting in the opportunity to organize …

The four pilot countries have led the way in putting gender-equality centre stage of their tourism recovery plans and UNWTO is committed to taking this work further and wider.

One year following the reopening of U.S. borders to inbound air travelers on November 8, outrageous wait times of more than 400 days for visitor visa applicants is delaying the recovery of the critically important international travel sector. U.S. visa …

Visit Valencia has partnered with The World Tourism Association for Culture and Heritage (WTACH) to host the world’s first tourism summit dedicated to the protection and preservation of culture and heritage in tourism destinations. Nigel Fell and Ms GómezThe summit, …

The association is also partnered with the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance and is set to attend the upcoming Sustainability Summit in Brussels.