GOVERNMENT TO INVEST IN NEW INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS IN BRAZIL

Bill Alen -
Last week, the Brazilian federal government launched the first public notice of the International Tourism Acceleration Program (PATI). The program aims to expand the number of seats and international ...

VIRGIN GALACTIC DOWNSIZES ITS SPACE TOURISM SUBORBITAL PROGRAM

Laura Maudlin -
Virgin Galactic has announced that it will reduce the frequency of VSS Unity flights after completing five successful commercial space tourism flights. The company wants to focus on developing a new p ...

QATAR TOURISM REPORTS A 151% GROWTH IN CRUISE TOURISTS

Denise Chen -
The latest data from Qatar Tourism shows that the country welcomed 253,191 cruise tourists during the 2022/2023 cruise season (December 2022 - April 2023), an increase of 151 percent compared to the s ...

AMSTERDAM ADOPTS NEW MEASURES TO LIMIT THE IMPACT OF MASS TOURISM

Michael Trout -
The city of Amsterdam is resolute in its mission to curb the adverse effects of mass tourism on its landscape. It has initiated several strategies to achieve this, notably by restricting hotel nights. ...

‘COVID’ PASSPORT FAILED TO BOOST INTERNATIONAL TOURISM IN SPAIN

Samuel Dorsi -
Last July, 4.4 million tourists arrived to Spain, 78% more than last year, but almost 55% fewer than in July 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic began. ...