HOTEL REVIEWS – ARE THEY STILL USEFUL?

Pat Hyland -
From “top location” over “breakfast buffet could have been more luxurious” to “absolute service disaster”. When booking their holidays, many people trust the hotel reviews found on various social netw ...

ITALIAN TOURISM FACES A LOW-COST FEVER

Vanderlei J. Pollack -
Rome remains the undisputed capital of Italian tourism with nearly 20 million arrivals and 40 million attendances per year. But it is also becoming more and more the capital of low-cost tourists and b ...

OVERTOURISM PROTESTS SPREADING AROUND EUROPE

Richard Moor -
Every year more people can afford to travel and every year the desire to travel goes up. For this reason, major tourism destinations are more and more flooded with visitors, causing a phenomenon label ...

SWISS TOURISM MARKETING NEEDS TO CHANGE

Kevin Eagan -
Like the human cargo of a cruise ship giant over Venice, displeasure over mass tourism is waking up in Switzerland as well. “You can barely ride the bicycle along the Zytgloggen, because the hordes of ...

TOURISM AND TERRORISM – A SINGLE ACT WITH LIMITED EFFECT

Dan Rang -
The recent Barcelona and Brussels attacks have once again made many people fear the impact of such events. Especially tour operators and travel companies have quickly come up with statements about the ...