Tourism in Northern Europe

  • UNWTO: International tourism – strongest half-year results since 2010

    AFGHANISTAN, 2017/09/09 Destinations worldwide welcomed 598 million international tourists in the initial six months of 2017, some 36 million additional than in the same period of 2016. At 6%, increase was well above the trend of recent years, making the current January-June period the strongest half-year since 2010. Visitor numbers reported by destinations around the world reflect strong request for international travel in the initial half of 2017, according to the new UNWTO World Tourism Barometer. Worldwide, international tourist arrivals (overnight visitors) increased by 6% compared to the same six-month period last year, well above the sustained and consistent trend of 4% or higher increase since 2010. This represents the strongest half-year in seven years.

  • Five Things To Know If You’re Travelling To Europe In 2017

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  • MCE Central & Eastern Europe 2017, Riga: The WOW effect

    EUROPE, 2017/03/11 MCE Central & Eastern Europe is free from event visitors and putting all the attention on the building of relations between the two selected participant sides. With all these participants spending a full 2.5 days together, during which they network, benchmark, do business and enjoy time together with receptions, dinners and parties, one can realize these 2.5 days are very well spent.

  • ETOA: Suspension of visa exemption status for US citizens "extremely unlikely"

    BULGARIA, 2017/03/05 The European Parliament voted on 2nd March 2017 to require the European Commission to suspend visa exemption status for US citizens. In ETOA's view this is extremely unlikely to happen: the Council of the EU will object and the status quo will prevail. The situation arises because, since 2014, citizens of Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania have needed a visa to visit the US. This means that there is not full reciprocity in treatment of EU and US citizens. EU legislation provides for a 'delegated act' allowing the Commission to suspend exemption from visa requirements in the event of 'non-reciprocity.' This would apply to citizens of nations that impose visa requirement on EU citizens.

  • Tourist numbers in Egypt have plunged in recent months

    EGYPT, 2016/01/08 A string of British airlines have again delayed the resumption of regular flights to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh following a plane crash before this year. The airlines initial suspended flights next the crash of a Russian airliner near the Red Sea holiday destination on October 31 in which all 224 people on board died. Investigators have concluded it was downed by a bomb and the Islamic National group has claimed responsibility. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the attack had raised doubts about "the capability of the security on the ground" at the airport.

  • UK updated travel advisory to Kenya: hostile propaganda?

    UNITED KINGDOM, 2015/03/28 Within days of a visit by the UK’s Foreign Secretary to Nairobi and Kenya’s refusal to renew a troop training transaction unless the UK agreed to have all troops deployed to Kenya subjected to Kenyan law, the almost predictable backlash came down hard on Kenya’s most vulnerable economic sector - tourism. Normally well-informed sources in Nairobi claim that while an attack on a hotel in Mogadishu had sadly taken place yesterday, this could not be equated to the situation in Kenya itself and that no indication was given to the Kenyan security apparatus by the UK, or other foreign intelligence services operating in Kenya, of any imminent attack or a heightened possibility of such an event.

  • Tanzania targets the power of British soccer to market its tourism

    UNITED KINGDOM, 2014/12/18 Targeting to attract additional Britons to visit its premier attractions, Tanzania is looking at leading British football matches as a medium of exposing wildlife and other tourist attractions to a magnitude of British outbound holiday makers. Under a new partnership arrangement, Tanzania has partnered with Sunderland AFC (Black Cats) to publicize Tanzania as a tourist destination in Africa and on the development of a soccer training center in Tanzanian capital of Dar es Salaam. A appropriate function was held in London recently to cement a partnership between Sunderland and the Tanzania Tourist Board, and attract British football fans and other soccer fanatics to book a safari itinerary to Tanzania.

  • Gambia welcomes British tourists

    UNITED KINGDOM, 2014/10/07 About 182 British tourists arrived in the Gambia over the weekend, being the initial batch of tourists for the season, brought in by Thomas Cook. They were welcomed by the Minister of Tourism, Benjamin Roberts, at Banjul International Airport. Flights are scheduled for each week between Banjul and London, sources told reporters.

  • Scandinavian tourist industry hurt by visitors murder fears

    DENMARK, 2014/03/24 Tourists have posted on Trip Advisor and confessed that although they have occasionally felt like murdering their children and spouses on holidays in Italy or Spain, the urges have become much additional extreme on Scandinavian trips. “On our second day in Oslo, I went as far as buying a firearm. I didn’t use it, but was comforted by guidance from Norwegian TV that in this part of the world, it’s extraordinary how quickly four-year-olds recover from critical gunshot wounds,” posted one mother on the travel site. A fear of being hideously murdered or being overcome with the desire to kill an extra is hurting the Swedish travel and tourism industry. “The perceived risk of being gratuitously slaughtered or coming across the shockingly mutilated and decomposing body of an innocent, partially-clad young woman who dies under mysterious circumstances is hitting us hard,” said Denmark’s tourism supremo Mike Smot at a press conference promoting ‘Murder Free’ holidays. “That sort of thing can really ruin a vacation and the insurance people simply refuse to provide additional cover for it.”

  • Top Ten Tourist Attractions in London

    UNITED KINGDOM, 2014/03/06 New figures released today confirm that VisitBritain’s four-year Olympics strategy is indeed working. Four years next the London’ Olympics, visitor attractions at London’s top sites have experienced a 12 % increase in visitor numbers, according to statistics, released by the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) today (Wednesday, March 5, 2014). According to London & Partners, the official promotional organization for London, the majority popular visitor attraction in 2013 remained The British Museum which saw a 20 % increase in its visitor numbers to 6,701,036 – making it the museum’s most successful year on record. In 2nd place, was the National Gallery, which saw a 14 % increase to 6,031,574 and in 3rd place, was the Natural History Museum, with 5,356,884.
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