HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY IN ANDALUSIA IS GROWING WHILE EMPLOYMENT GOES DOWN
The number of visitors coming to Andalusia increased by 13% between 2008 and 2016, accompanied by an increase of 16.5% in the number of overnight stays, two indicators of growth for the Andalusian hos ...
RECORD NUMBER OF FOREIGN TOURISTS THANKS TO BRAZILIAN OLYMPICS
South American visitors accounted for the largest share of foreign tourists who visited Brazil in 2016. This conclusion was presented by the Statistical Yearbook of the Ministry of Tourism. ...
TOURISM COMPETITIVENESS INDEX SHOWS DYNAMIC CHANGES
For the past 11 years, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has been carrying out an in-depth analysis of travel and tourism competitiveness of 136 economies around the world. This year has been a turbulent ...
MOST POPULAR LONG HAUL DESTINATIONS AMONG GERMAN TRAVELERS?
Germans generally prefer spending holidays in their own country. However, many of them want to get to know new cultures, in Europe and beyond and opt for long haul destinations. ...
NEW PACKAGE TRAVEL DIRECTIVE WORRIES EUROPEAN TOUR OPERATORS
On the 25th of November in 2015 the new Package Travel Directive was adopted. It entered into force on 31 December 2015 and the EU Member States have to transpose it by 1 January 2018. The directive w ...