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From next year, air travel will be at least 20 per cent more expensive than it is today, according to the Dutch daily De Telegraaf. Experts quoted by the newspaper blame this primarily on high aviation fuel prices, the high exchange rate of the dollar and rising airport charges.more

Scandinavian airlines SAS has announced that it is cancelling 1,200 flights scheduled for September and 500 scheduled for October. According to the corporation, a strike by pilots in July contributed to the reduction in the route network.more

Venice City Police determined the identities and detained two men who were rushing on surfboards across the Grand Canal yesterday morning. Mayor Luigi Brugnaro announced on Twitter. As he added, the surfers' boards were confiscated, and they would receive a well-deserved punishment.more

Tourists have returned to Paris en masse, although Russians and Chinese are absent. Europeans have never been so numerous and Americans are spending a lot of money in the French capital because of the strong dollar, the daily Le Figaro wrote yesterday.more

In Greece, the 14 largest regional airports recorded an 11 per cent increase in arrivals in July compared to the same month in 2019, i.e. before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ekathimerini portal reported yesterday. Almost 6 million travellers arrived. As much as a 36 per cent increase in arrivals was at the airport on the island of Santorini, popular with tourists.more

Pollution warnings are in place for almost 50 beaches in England and Wales after a water company discharged untreated sewage into the sea during heavy rain since Monday, Surfers Against Sewage reported today.more

Dublin Airport has revised its advice to passengers queuing for flights after a significant improvement in security screening times.more

Cyanobacteria persist at eleven bathing sites by the sea in the Bay of Gdansk and the water is not fit for bathing. This is the situation at some of the bathing sites in the Tricity, the sanitary service reported yesterday.more

Fans of the "Saw" series of bloody films will soon be able to see for themselves what it means to be part of the murderous puzzle of the mysterious Jigsaw.In October, an escape room inspired by this popular horror series will open in London.more

Tourists from Poland, Romania, Sweden, Spain, Serbia, as well as Italians have been fined for trying to export sand, stones and shells from Sardinia's beaches, Ansa news agency reported yesterday, citing the island's customs service. They control travellers' luggage. Exporting natural treasures there is considered theft and punishable by fines.more

Election campaign under an umbrella on the beach - this is how the media in Italy describes a situation that has never happened in this country before. Parliamentary elections have not been held in the fall for over a hundred years. Before the vote on September 25, the campaign of many parties moves to the seaside, to the mountains, to train stations and to nightclubs.more

This year's vacation is the most expensive in the last 50 years, announced the Italian consumer rights organization Codacons. As she noted, flights on international routes have increased by more than 100 percent, and on average by 33 percent on domestic routes.more

Tourists arriving at Rome's Fiumicino Airport can receive all the necessary information, including transport services, which taxis to use and their rights. There are stewards in yellow waistcoats present in the arrivals terminal who are worth approaching.more

A woman in north London says she feels victimised after dozens of tourists turned up at her home when her private address was placed on the Booking.com accommodation website.more

Tourism Ireland was worried a Lonely Planet article referencing “soaring hotel costs” here and how renting a car would make a “significant dent” would get “amplified” across the world.more

In August, three new routes by Wizz Air will appear in the flight schedule of Wrocław Airport. Passengers will be able to fly to the Albanian capital Tirana, to the Greek island of Rhodes and to Dubrovnik in Croatia.more

Foreign tourists are sustaining France's economic growth, which came in at 0.5 per cent in the second quarter, twice as high as economists had forecast. If this trend continues, GDP growth this year could reach 2.5 per cent, - BFMTV reported yesterday. The pandemic emergency in France will end tomorrow (1 August).more

Colchester has about 120,000 residents and it's one of eight towns that were awarded city status during the Queen 's Platinum Jubilee. It was also the capital of England from the fifth to eighth centuries during the Roman occupation of what would become England - and there's plenty to do in the soon-to-be city. more

Hungary's Wizz Air will launch a service from Warsaw Chopin Airport to Funchal on the Portuguese island of Madeira from 30 October, the carrier announced. The flights will be operated on Wednesdays and Sundays.more

Bhutan will introduce the highest tourist tax in the world from September, informs the local daily "Kuensel". Tourists in the "last kingdom in the Himalayas" will have to pay $ 200 a day per person "for sustainable development."more

The Eurovision Song Contest in 2023 will take place in Great Britain and will be hosted by BBC TV, which will act on behalf of this year's winner - Ukraine - the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) announced. It was previously announced that the event will not be held in Ukraine for security reasons.more

An absolute novelty in tourism in Venice: for the first time, a large passenger ship did not dock in the city, but in the roadstead, from where tourists were transported by smaller vessels to the historic center, reported the local daily Il Corriere del Veneto.more

The capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship is among the "most underrated cities in Europe", and also worth visiting this year, in the list prepared by the luxury travel magazine "Conde Nast Traveler". The list of 22 such places was prepared on the basis of interviews with experts and journalists from all over Europe.more

Many municipalities on the Spanish coast have introduced their own standards for beach use. Some of these provisions seem controversial and the risk of fines in the event of violation of them disproportionately high - assessed the daily "ABC", which presented the most important new rules.more

This weekend will be the busiest summer getaway in at least eight years, drivers have been warned.more