Bulgari Hotels and Resorts has signed an agreement with Russian investor Alexey Bogachev to bring the luxury hospitality brand to Moscow. Moscow-based real estate development company Storm Properties is developer of the project. Plans for the Bulgari Hotel in Moscow…
Passengers wait for a flight at Marseille-Provence Airport, in Marignane, southern France during a previous strike in June 2013. Claude Paris / Associated Press Travelers beware: French labor unions plan a string of strikes in the coming days that will…
People sunbathe at the Barceloneta beach in Barcelona, Spain. Spain and Portugal are reaping an economic bonanza from tourism as terrorism fears driving customers away from other Mediterranean destinations. Manu Fernandez / Associated Press With sunny days getting longer and…
The spat between the European Union and Turkey over visa-free travel is heating up. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey is demanding the abolition of visas for his citizens, or else he’ll renege on a deal that has reduced the…
Turkey experienced its biggest drop in foreign-tourist arrivals on record last month, as tensions with Russia and a series of deadly bombings kept visitors away from the country’s beaches.The number of arrivals dropped for a ninth consecutive month, the longest…
Friends, Romans, countrymen! Oh yes, and countrywomen. And people in far-flung nations. Everyone, basically. Rome is seeking all the sponsors it can find to fund the monumental job of restoring and maintaining its hundreds of fountains, statues, archaeological sites and…
Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, right, speaks to a supermarket employee while campaigning to remain in the European Union ahead of the EU referendum on June 23. Jack Taylor / Pool Photo via AP Britons risk pushing up the cost…
German tourists walk on the seashore as one of them takes a photograph, after swimming in the Atlantic ocean in a beach in Cadiz, southwest Spain. Emilio Morenatti / Associated Press Nudists have lost a seven-year legal battle for access…
A girl plays next to the fence on the Macedonian border in Idomeni, Greece. Thousands of stranded refugees and migrants have camped in Idomeni for months after the border was closed. Darko Bandic / Associated Press The European Union on…
Germany’s Wi-Fi crunch looks set to ease after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governing coalition agreed to remove legal quirks that have held providers of public hotspots liable for what users do online through their networks.After months of wrangling over fine print,…
