More and more tourists visit the region around Half Moon Island on Antarctica. This season – spring and summer in the southern hemisphere – 80,000 visitors are expected to come to the Antarctic Peninsula. That would be 40 percent more…
The Minister of Tourism of South Africa, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, has noted and expressed concern over the report on the decline in visitors traveling to South Africa. The data on Tourism and Migration released in September 2019 by Statistics SA revealed…
American Express Meetings & Events has unveiled a new ground transportation platform using exclusive technology from solutions provider miMeetings.The first service of its kind, Meetings Ground Transportation will allow American Express Meetings & Events to manage ground transportation on behalf…
NH Hotel Group will open its first nhow property in London on January 2nd.The hotel – originally scheduled to open this summer – is part of a new development 250 City Road, with London-based Project Orange responsible for the interior…
Air France-KLM has placed a firm order for ten additional widebody A350-900s with Airbus.The move will take its total order for the aircraft type to 38 planes.The A350s are intended to be operated by Air France.“Rationalising and modernising the fleet…
Gulf Air and Turkish Airlines have signed a codeshare expansion.The national carrier of the kingdom of Bahrain will place its ‘GF’ code on Turkish Airlines’ flights from Manama to Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen International Airport and from Istanbul Airport to Amsterdam,…
Travelstart has entered into a distribution and commercial agreement with Jumia Travel to power its pan-African online travel booking portal.Jumia Travel operates in several African countries, with Kenya and Nigeria being its largest markets.Travelstart will be responsible for taking control…
Euromonitor International released its list of 100 most visited cities of 2018. Asia clearly dominates the ranking with 43 of the 100 metropolises located on the continent.Asia is and remains an absolute boom region in terms of international tourism, as…
Airbnb is taking more steps to crack down on parties and nuisance guests in the wake of a Halloween shooting at an Airbnb rental in a San Francisco suburb where five people were killed.The company said Thursday it’s banning “open…
Heathrow has recorded its busiest ever November, with over 6.2 million passengers travelling through the airport.Passengers heading to the United States to celebrate Thanksgiving helped push up traffic figures on the back of new services.British Airways and American Airlines both…
