eTurboNews: With the northern hemisphere summer rush around the corner, travel concerns around delayed flights, surging airfares and congestion in the airport are not putting travelers off air travel. Preliminary findings from 2023 SITA Passenger IT Insights released today, revealed anxiety around flight cancellations was cited by 32% of passengers when booking their next flight. […]
eTurboNews: Serengeti, Tanzania’s flagship national park, has been voted the third premium nature destination in the world in 2023, raising the country’s profile as Africa’s premier tourism destination. Nature and outdoor enthusiasts across the World have casted their votes in favor of Serengeti in Tanzania, as the number three destinations, alongside Mauritius, and Kathmandu in […]
eTurboNews: The World Tourism Network research team named ten additional hotels to fall to be “amazing.” What does it take for a hotel to be amazing? It’s not the stars but the uniqueness and how an amazing hotel can distinguish itself from mainstream properties in the same categories. Based on this philosophy, the following ten […]
eTurboNews: Unfortunately, all too often, travel, both for business and leisure, seems to promote stress rather than de-stressing us. Anyone who has ever traveled understands why travel in English is derived from the French word travail, meaning hard work. Travel, especially in high season, is work. In today’s complicated world, we deal with overbookings and airline cancellations, […]
The president of the Hotel Association of Cancun, Puerto Morelos and Isla Mujeres (AHCIM&PM), Jesús Almaguer Salazar, acknowledged that during May and June of this year, the Mexican Caribbean experienced a 13% drop in U.S. tourists, which he attributed to the normalization of international travel markets after the pandemic. The hotel industry experienced a decline […]
eTurboNews: Travel and Tourism are dependent on connectivity. This is equally important for big players in the industry and SMEs. World Tourism Network is a fast-growing, dynamic community bringing small and medium size businesses to the table, and connectivity is an equal concern for tourism businesses of all sizes. WTN is preparing for its first […]
eTurboNews: Unravelling the tourism potentials available in Indonesia, a team of international leaders and experts have discussed the future strategies that will help to attract more tourists to the Asian country, famous for its marine and beach resources. Tourism and travel executives and experts held the Webinar Summit on June 30, from Indonesia’s capital Jakarta […]
eTurboNews: Russian carriers completely halted their regular passenger flights to Cuba, Mexico and the Dominican Republic in February of 2022, due to the bans imposed by the European Union on the use of its airspace, shortly after Russia launched its unprovoked and brutal war of aggression against Ukraine. But today, Russia’s Aeroflot group announced that […]
eTurboNews: For the first time ever, the cruise industry was anchored in the Cayman Islands for Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association’s (FCCA) PAMAC Summit, which joined 100 FCCA Platinum Members and more than 25 high-level cruise executives. Taking place from June 20-23, the event offered invaluable opportunities for the group to engage in meetings and networking sessions, […]
According to the Airports Council International (ACI), the leading trade association for global airport companies, European airports made a net profit of 6.4 billion euros last year, despite facing losses of over 20 billion euros due to the pandemic. ACI revealed that this impressive result was achieved despite passenger numbers remaining 21% lower than those […]