FRENCH TOURISM CONFEDERATION TO REPRESENT THE INDUSTRY

Daniel A. Tanner -
Fourteen professional organizations and associations from the French tourism sector announced last week that they will be uniting under the same confederation, mainly in order to “champion tourism iss ...

MOROCCAN CRUISE SECTOR STEADILY DECLINING

Samuel Dorsi -
For several months, the number of cruise ship passengers going ashore in Moroccan ports has been in free fall. According to professionals, this trend illustrates the agony which has taken hold of the ...

MEDICAL TOURISM IN ARGENTINA REACHING HIGHEST POSITIONS

Sara Thopson -
Medical tourism is not seasonal, it is distributed all over the year and the whole of the national territory; more than 20% of revenues go towards hotels, recreational activities and tourism agencies. ...

FRANKFURT TO IMPOSE TOURISM LEVY ON LEISURE TRAVELERS

Theodore Slate -
The German city of Frankfurt is hoping for a new tourism levy to add several million euros to the city. All leisure visitors of Frankfurt will pay the fee per night starting next year. ...

CHOCOLATE TOURISM RELAUNCHED IN BRAZIL

Ashley Nault -
The city of Ilhéus keeps an important historical collection of the country where cocoa, the plant that has lost its space due to agricultural pests, lack of maintenance and droughts, is back to being ...