Officials from the Mexican Ministry of Tourism announced Tuesday that a record number of tourists visited Mexico last year. The 22.67 million individuals who listed Mexico in their vacation plans in 2011 marked an increase of 0.2 percent over 2008’s erstwhile record-breaking numbers. Compared to 2010’s year-ending numbers, tourism numbers rose by 2 percent. Mexico [...]
A study conducted by CASE (Consumers Association of Singapore) revealed that the number of travel complaints increased by around 40 percent in 2011. Although this does seem like a lot of additional irate customers for one year – the number of complaints went up to 1,396 from 994 year-on-year – part of it can be [...]
Generally speaking, passengers wishing to travel around the holiday season have to be willing to pay over the odds or pretty much count themselves out of the running altogether. It has become to standard expectation that airlines and travel agents will add enormous extra fees and charges onto regular prices for those wishing to travel [...]
Reduced Flights and High Prices During last week, the major airlines announced they were reducing the number of flights and available seats. This would apply to existing flights in the forthcoming months of this year and even into 2012. This situation poses the question of whether we have seen the last of cheap flights, as [...]
Traveling by train, plane аnd cruise ship, the number of tourists flocking to Batumi, Georgia, is expected tо hit 1.4 million thіѕ year, 10 times thе level of 2005. This hot nеw vacation destination is bеcoming "in" destination оf the Black Sea. For Lucia, frоm land-locked Armenia, it іs the sea. She ѕаys ѕhe comеs [...]
Greece is going to compensate those foreign tourists who have suffered damages due to the strikes and street riots that happened in the country.
The “Brijuni Riviera” is now under development and within a few years it’s going to offer hundreds of accomodations through a 40 kilometers long esplanade – said the marketing manager of the Istrian County Office. The building operations will kick off with the rehabilitation of the gulf port area of North Pula, where formerly military [...]
According to the latest reports, the Icelandic volcano’s activity is much weaker now which is a good news for Europeans who are planning their vacations for the upcoming summer. Although, these reports are very cautious saying that the volcano’s activiy may just pausing now. The cloud that is emitting from the crater is only 3 [...]
According to BBC approximately 158 people died on Saturday when an airplane crashed at the south indian Mangalor airport. The plane which was coming from Dubai overran the tarmac during landing and then burned up. The airline has confirmed: there are only 8 survivors of the catastrophe. Overran the tarmac and burned up a passenger [...]
Due to protests and riots that have happened in the last few weeks, lot of tourists have cancelled their resorts in Greece, hotel owners say. Approximately 20000 hotel reservations in Athen have been cancelled since the 5th of May according to sources. The setback in tourism also reflects for the bad situation that is present [...]