CRUISE INDUSTRY FACING THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES IN ITS HISTORY

Andrea Hausold -
Before the pandemic, the global cruise industry had been growing for years, culminating in a preliminary peak of 30 million passengers worldwide in 2019 – up from 25 million in 2015. Around 450 cruise ...

COSTA RICA REPORTS 50% OF AMERICAN VISITORS IN FIRST HALF OF 2021

Theodore Slate -
The data from the Directorate General of Immigration and Foreign Services, analyzed by the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT), reveal that during the first 6 months of this year, the country register ...

SUSTAINABLE TOURISM PUT TO THE TEST

The two years of the pandemic and the cohorts of restrictions have not changed anything: travel is still a dream come true. And holidays are more popular than ever, as the latest barometer from the Wo ...

TOURISM IN BARCELONA HAS NOT OVERCOME THE PANDEMIC DROP

Larry Brain -
Barcelona closed this summer tourist season with 2.9 million tourists staying in hotels and tourist apartments, 15% less than in 2019. When accumulated, the statistics reveal that tourism in Barcelona ...

EXPERTS WARN AGAINST TOURISM IN ANTARCTICA

Sara Thopson -
Tourism, a type of globalization, has been expanding for almost two centuries and now reaching even the last uninhabited areas, such as Antarctica. However, this comes with risks as this frozen land r ...