Saturday, May 28, 2022

Establishments encouraged to seek STAR Journey certification, a new quality assurance standard that seeks to incentivise industry players at all levels to up their game. *Malta is the first European c...

Friday, May 27, 2022

*The Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association welcomes the news announced by Minister for Tourism Clayton Bartolo, that Carlo Micallef has been appointed as new Chief Executive Officer of the Malta To...

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

*Turkish airports hosted about 11.6 million passengers in April, up 88.1% from last year, the country's air travel authority announced.* Some 5.4 million passengers took domestic flights last month, ...

Saturday, May 07, 2022

There is a sad story behind the Mother's Day we know today, one that starts with a mother's campaign to prevent premature deaths and ends with regret *Mother's Day, perhaps the most precious of days, ...

Saturday, May 07, 2022

*Malta will from Monday scrap its red and dark red travel lists, Health Minister Chris Fearne announced on Friday.* Speaking in a comment to state broadcaster TVM, Fearne said that as from Monday trav...

Saturday, May 07, 2022

Tourists spent €167 million while on holiday in first quarter of the year *Malta received more than 235,000 tourists in the first three months of 2022, more than seven times as many as the same period...

Wednesday, May 04, 2022

*As shoppers pay more for anything from coffee to ketchup, some retailers have started to cut or cap the price of hundreds of products as they compete for customers and set themselves up to do battle ...

Wednesday, May 04, 2022

*A flock of tourists from Europe, particularly Germany and Britain, two of the markets the Turkish tourism sector missed during the coronavirus pandemic, has provided encouragement for an industry wor...

Tuesday, May 03, 2022

*Italy has removed the requirement for international visitors to complete a Passenger Locator Form (PLF) to enter the country.* As of May 1, Britons travelling to Italy have been able to enter without...

Saturday, Apr 30, 2022

* * *Turkey is seeing a significant rebound in its crucial industry as foreign arrivals continue to gain pace and income continues to surge, as traces of the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic con...

Friday, Apr 29, 2022

EasyJet has started selling flights from the UK to four Greek island destinations – Kos, Kefalonia, Corfu and Chania in Crete – and the French city of Nantes. The budget carrier now claims to be the l...

Friday, Apr 29, 2022

Starting this Monday, May 2, the monthlong daylight fast of Ramadan will be celebrated with the three-day Eid al-Fitr, which in Turkish is colloquially referred to as Şeker Bayram, or the holiday of s...