SWISS TOURISM RECOVERING AFTER THE CURRENCY SHOCK

Laura Loss -
The Swiss tourism industry has been in a crisis since the euro-franc shock in January 2015 but there are signs of recovery and it seems that the situation is gradually turning around. As a reminder, t ...

THAILAND: TOURISM AUTHORITY REVISES THE 2019 FORECAST

Andrea Hausold -
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has revised down its growth forecast for this year, bringing the estimated number of international arrivals to 40.2 million, below the 41.3 million targeted wit ...

EUROPEAN AIRPORTS COMMIT TO NET ZERO EMISSIONS

Michael Trout -
Around a quarter of all CO2 emissions are caused by global traffic. An effective reduction of emissions can only be achieved with an international agreement. The members of the European airports assoc ...

BERLIN TO USE MOBILE DATA FOR TOURISM ASSESSMENT

Michael Trout -
Last year Berlin decided to do solve the problems with excessive crowds of tourists in some of the most popular places in the German capital. The goal of Visit Berlin’s Burkhard Kieker was to make tou ...

75% OF TRIPS MADE BY EUROPEANS ARE DOMESTIC

Justin N. Froyd -
In 2017, residents of the European Union made a total of 1.3 billion trips with overnight stays, amounting to almost 6.4 billion stays with an average duration of 5.1 nights according to Eurostat data ...