POLYNESIAN TOURISM BRINGS SIGNIFICANT VALUE TO THE ECONOMY

Andrea Hausold -
Tourism plays a significant role in the Polynesian economy. The latest study by the Institute of Statistics in French Polynesia (ISPF) serves as a reminder of this fact. In 2022, the overseas territor ...

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 ...

BALI TO INTRODUCE RULES FOR VISITORS AND TOURIST TAX

Andrea Hausold -
Dozens of tourists have been deported from Bali in recent weeks. Some had even posed nude or semi-nude for photographs at holy sites, and others misused their tourist visas to work or broke traffic ru ...

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 ...