VIENNA REPORTED A 50% INCREASE IN OVERNIGHT STAYS

Joe McClain -
In September, the number of overnight stays in Vienna rose by 50 percent year-on-year to almost 1.3 million. The pre-Corona level of 2019 was only 15 percent short. ...

FIRST RUSSIAN TOURISTS ARRIVE IN CUBA, BYPASSING SANCTIONS AGAINST MOSCOW

Michael Trout -
The first flight of the Russian company Nordwind Airlines arrived on October 5 in Varadero, Cuba, after seven months of interruption to this tourist destination due to sanctions hitting Russia after t ...

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC EXPECTS 4.8 MILLION FOREIGN TOURISTS THIS YEAR

Larry Brain -
The Dominican Republic expects 4,840,376 tourists at the end of this year, though still far from the 6,446,036 arrivals recorded in 2019 before the pandemic, according to forecasts revealed last week ...

NEW YORK HOTELS PACKED AFTER AIRBNB COLLAPSE

Laura Loss -
In December of 2023, hotels in New York City experienced a strong recovery, with the highest occupancy rate of any top 25 U.S. city at 86.6%. The average daily hotel rate in the city also saw a signif ...

TOURISM: VIENNA WANTS TO SUSPEND LOCAL TAXES

Nils Kraus -
"The city hotel industry continues to be hard hit," says Markus Wölbitsch, chairman of the Vienna ÖVP (the New People's Party). If you walk through the streets, you see significantly more tourists tha ...