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12 April 2021

Antwerp Airport sees business flights increase and prepares for restart

Antwerp Airport is seeing business flights and flight movements increase in the first quarter of 2021. From April 20, TUI fly will again fly from the […]
12 April 2021

What can we learn from Starbucks?

Back in the late 1990s a Masters student at the Durrell Insitute of Conservation and Ecology, where I was teaching, analysed the images in UK travel […]
12 April 2021

Today is National Liquorice Day

Liquorice. Lakrits. Lakrids. Something I hated as a child and the type of candy I love now. The black gold of the Nordics, and this time […]
12 April 2021

New York City’s Union Square to receive $100 million pedestrianised makeover

New Yorks City’s iconic Union Square is to receive a major makeover which will see the area transformed into a pedestrian-friendly, car-free zone, in a new […]
12 April 2021

Gloria Guevara: “We believe we are finally coming to the light at the end of the tunnel”

A year has gone by and the world has not recovered from the effects of the pandemic. Vaccination campaigns across the globe are underway and it […]
12 April 2021

Travel & Tourism contribution to UK GDP slumped a shocking £148 billion in 2020

The World Travel & Tourism Council’s annual Economic Impact Report (EIR) today reveals that the dramatic collapse of the UK’s Travel & Tourism sector has wiped out a […]
12 April 2021
Berlin

Travel & Tourism contribution to Germany’s GDP dropped a staggering €161 billion in 2020

The World Travel & Tourism Council’s annual Economic Impact Report (EIR) reveals that the dramatic collapse of Germany’s Travel & Tourism sector has wiped out €161 billion from […]
12 April 2021

Tokyo Disney Resort to open Toy Story hotel in 2021

Following Tokyo Disney Resort’s first announcement of plans for a Toy Story themed hotel by owner Oriental Land back in 2018, the resort has released further […]
9 April 2021

Rapid testing on departure aimed to revive international travel

Rapid testing on departure at airports is the key to unlocking international travel, says the World Travel & Tourism Council in its submission to the UK […]
9 April 2021

New Excelsior Pass meant to facilitate entry to concerts and events in New York State

The government of New York State has launched a new digital vaccine pass to try to restart activities in large venues such as concerts, sport games, […]
9 April 2021

USA: Fully vaccinated people can travel

In its latest updated guidance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States has announced a significant easing of restrictions for those who […]
9 April 2021

5 Most famous Chinatowns in the world

The Chinese have been migrating elsewhere for a long time. There are more than 50 million Chinese currently living outside their country, and many countries have […]
9 April 2021

A smell of post-Covid-19 times: an intellectual rebel honoured by German conservatives

The debate about Covid-19 has a multitude of facets: one of the most important (nevertheless a quite neglected aspect), is the “post Covid-19” one. While the […]
9 April 2021

Ian Fleming. The man behind James Bond

Write what you know, they say, but it’s a tall order for thriller writers. There’s a big difference between the sedentary desk life of an author […]
9 April 2021

Are you thinking about Net Zero emission targets?

The UK is hosting COP26 in November and in preparation to this important assembly, the COP hosted a climate and development meeting. On listening in, the […]
9 April 2021

Tibães Monastery: where tradition and leisure meet

Since Portugal allowed museums and cafés to reopen on April 5th, lots of us have been dreaming about going to the ever-sunny country. Oh, what we’d […]