CRIMEA TOURISM NUMBERS EXPECTED TO INCREASE THANKS TO A BRIDGE

Alec Hills -
Up to 6 million tourists are expected to visit Crimea in 2018. This is about 600 thousand more than last year, according to Crimea tourism committee chairman, Alexei Chernyak. ...

GERMAN HOTEL INDUSTRY FIGHTS FAKE STARS

Nik Fes -
The hotel industry in Germany is no longer willing to tolerate false information associated with hotel stars. Since autumn 2016, the German Hotel and Restaurant Association Dehoga identified a total o ...

ITALY TO FOCUS MORE ON MEDICAL TOURISM

Anna Luebke -
After food, culture, fashion and design, health is another candidate to become one of the distinctive features of Made in Italy. The goal is to make Italy a top destination of medical tourism. ...

LATVIAN TOURISM ON THE RISE BUT STILL BEHIND ESTONIA AND LITHUANIA

Nik Fes -
In 2017, the number of nights spent by tourists in accommodation facilities in Latvia increased by 12.1% compared to 2016. All in all, this amounted to 4.951 million overnight stays, according to the ...

PORTUGUESE TOURISM INCOME GROWS 16.6%

James Morris -
The tourism income in Portugal increased by 16.6% last year compared to 2016, to a total of 39 billion euros. 20.6 million guests and 57.5 million overnight stays were registered, according to the lat ...