WEDDING TOURISM GENERATES EUR 500 MILLION IN ITALY

Nik Fes -
If there is a market segment that is particularly popular in Italy, it is the wedding tourism, tourism for foreigners’ marriages. More than 8,700 events in 2018 in Italy generated an estimated turnove ...

LAST YEAR FRENCH TRAVELERS WENT ON HOLIDAY IN RECORD NUMBERS

Daniel A. Tanner -
Despite the SNCF and Air France strikes, the World Cup and the yellow vest movement, 66% of French people went on holiday at least once in 2018. 35.5 million, that’s two thirds of the French populatio ...

REUNION ISLAND: OVERNIGHT STAYS DECREASED IN 2018

Denise Chen -
All hotels in Reunion Island have recorded a decrease in overnight stays in 2018. With a total of 1,196,100 overnight stays, bookings and reservations have dropped by 1% compared to 2017. ...

AIRBNB EXPANDING MORE AND MORE

Nik Fes -
The ambitions of Airbnb are enormous. After acquiring Gaest.com, a platform that allows users to find and book a place for meetings, earlier this year, the company is looking for more and more potenti ...

CUBA EXPECTS ANOTHER YEAR OF TOURISM GROWTH

Nik Fes -
Cuba, which recently surpassed 1 million foreign visitors so far this year, expects to maintain its tourism growth trend throughout 2019. Tourism has become the most dynamic industry of the island's e ...