QUEBEC HOTEL INDUSTRY - NO RETURN TO NORMAL UNTIL 2025

Justin N. Froyd -
The travel and hospitality industry will take years to return to full capacity once the COVID-19 pandemic is over. While 2020 was shaping up to be a record year for the Quebec hotel industry, the sect ...

SPANISH TOURISM EMPLOYS 5.7% LESS WORKERS THAN BEFORE THE PANDEMIC

Tomas Haupt -
The number of workers in tourism activities affiliated to Social Security reached 2.31 million last February, according to data provided by Turespaña. This is 5.7% less than in February 2020, before t ...

ST. PETERSBURG WELCOMED 6 MILLION TOURISTS IN 2021

Nils Kraus -
According to preliminary data from the Russian Union of Tourism, the tourist flow to St. Petersburg amounted to about 6 million tourists last year. This was announced by Russian Tourism Union’ expert ...

MAURITIUS: DECREASING TOURIST ARRIVALS BUT VISITORS STAY LONGER

Theodore Slate -
While it is difficult to compare 2020 with 2021 because of the closed borders, the latest statistics of Mauritius for 2021 show a decline in tourist arrivals, from 442,749 in 2020 to 246,260 in 2021, ...

PARIS FACES SUSTAINABLE TOURISM CHALLENGES OF TOMORROW

Vanderlei J. Pollack -
A few months before the Rugby World Cup and a year before the Olympic Games, the French capital must juggle its ambitious environmental goals with its desire to remain the world's leading tourist dest ...