INFOGRAPHICS: TRAVEL BEHAVIOR OF CHINESE OUTBOUND TOURISTS

Number of Chinese outbound travelers have been increasing dramatically. It is hardly believable, but in 2004 there were about 29 million outbound travelers from China. Today the total number of Chines ...

VIENNA AIRPORT IS THE FASTEST IN BOARDING PASSENGERS

Denise Chen -
Airport terminals in Vienna (5 minutes), Barcelona-El Prat (7 minutes) and Terminal D in Zurich (11 minutes), which handle between 20 and 40 million passengers, are the ones that take the shortest tim ...

NEW TOURIST TAX IN LISBON STARTING IN 2015

Gary Diskin -
Starting in 2015, the Lisbon City Council will charge EUR 1 tourist tax for each visitor coming to the Portuguese capital through the air or sea port – excluding travel by train, bus or private car. T ...

NEW MEXICAN PROMOTION STRATEGY TO FOCUS ON TEQUILA

Cecilia Garland -
The municipality of Santiago de Tequila and the agave distillation industry will play a principal role in Mexico's strategy to attract tourists starting next year. ...

STUDY: BUSINESS TRAVEL IN GERMANY EXPECTED TO GROW

Denise Chen -
The vast majority of German business travelers expect that the volume of business travel in the next five years will grow or at least remain constant. This is the result of the study “Management Issue ...