CRIMEAN AUTHORITIES PLAN TO PUSH THE NUMBER OF TOURISTS TO AN ALARMING LEVEL

Nils Kraus -
The speaker of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea, Vladimir Konstantinov, has announced that the government aims to attract 19-20 million tourists to the region by 2030. According to local me ...

IRAN REOPENS ITS BORDERS TO VACCINATED TOURISTS

Sara Thopson -
Iran, the country most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in the Middle East, is reopening its borders to vaccinated tourists after almost twenty months of closure, authorities said last week: "At the ...

JANUARY: SPAIN WELCOMED SIX TIMES MORE TOURISTS THAN IN JAN 2021

Andrew J. Wein -
Spain received 2.48 million tourists last January, which is almost six times more tourists (+467.7%) than in the same month of 2021 (434,000), a year marked by the third wave of the pandemic and by th ...

COSTA RICA'S TOURISM IS EXPECTED TO EXCEED HISTORICAL FIGURES IN 2023

Nils Kraus -
Costa Rica's tourism has experienced a significant boost, with more than 1.84 million visitors between January and September of this year. This represents a 16.4% increase from the previous year. As a ...

NEW FEE FOR FOREIGN TOURISTS TO BE LAUNCHED IN THAILAND

Richard Moor -
The Thai government plans to introduce a 300-baht (about US$ 8.7) landing tax for foreign tourists arriving by air, said Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, Thailand's minister of tourism and sports. ...