TOURISM TECHNOLOGY CHANGED THE WAY WE TRAVEL

Larry Brain -
Technology and, more specifically, Internet, are changing the way tourism is organized and commercialized. On the one hand, users do not travel the same way they did a few years ago because they now h ...

OVERNIGHT STAYS INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY IN VIENNA

Daniel A. Tanner -
2017 has been a good year for tourism in Vienna. The Austrian capital registered a record in overnight stays in the first half of the year – 6,924,000. Hotel sales also rose by almost 10 percent this ...

CHINESE TOURISTS INVADE GREECE AND INVEST

Nik Fes -
Chinese tourists are currently “invading” Greece in big numbers. Last year, 150,000 Chinese travelers visited the country. Usually they travel in groups, but more and more individual travelers are als ...

MUSEUMS TURNED INTO SOFT POWER

Nik Fes -
Developed by Joseph Nye from Harvard University, soft power is a concept describing the ability to attract and co-opt in other ways than through coercion (hard power), using force or persuading with m ...

TOURISM IN ASIA TURNS TO SUSTAINABILITY

Daniel A. Tanner -
According to the sixth annual MasterCard Cities Index, published last September, the city of Bangkok is currently major city destination, as determined by international tourist arrivals. According to ...