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Berlin hotels are lacking guests. It is expected that pre-pandemic level of tourists will return not earlier than in 2024 - "Tagesspiegel" reports. more

15 cities in Italy have gone through the heat alert today and 17 tomorrow - this is the weather that accompanies the weekend, which is the culmination of summer holidays. About 13 million Italians are going on the journey. In historic cities, tourists find it difficult to explore monuments.more

Life-size copies of 20 famous paintings at London's National Gallery were exhibited in Trafalgar Square yesterday as part of an effort to bring people back to the heart of the British capital. They will hang there until the beginning of September.more

Dodgem cars at Somerset House and free art classes in Trafalgar Square and Tate Modern are among the events being promoted to encourage families to spend the summer in central London.more

The Irish low-cost airline Ryanair will launch from October 31 a new connection from Krakow to Ancona located in central Italy on the Adriatic Sea. Flights will be operated twice a week - on Thursdays and Sundays.more

British holidaymakers to Europe will be forced to pay €7 in order to be allowed in under plans from Brussels. more

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have reportedly opted for a UK-based summer holiday this year with a staycation in the southwest of England. more

28 percent European Union citizens, i.e. over 35 million people, cannot afford a week's vacation away from home, according to a study published by the European Trade Union Association (CES). The largest number of people who could not afford to leave was in Greece, Romania and Croatia. In Poland, there are over 3.1 million people in this situation.more

Fans of a festive night out will be delighted to hear that Hyde Park's Winter Wonderland will be making a welcome return this year.more

At least five people have been wounded and holidaymakers evacuated after wildfires devastated a pine wood near a beach in Pescara, Italy, as one of the worst heatwaves in decades swept across south-east Europe.more

Tourists hoping to visit the Marble Arch mound won’t have long to wait – as ticket sales have already restarted for August 9 onwards.more

An inner city oasis of lush green foliage with panoramic views of the capital were what Londoners were promised from the much-anticipated Marble Arch Mound.more

More countries warned against travel to Spain due to their rising Covid infection rates. In Spain the infection rate is now 702 cases per 100,000 residents.more

Cornwall tourism bosses urged staycationers to bring Covid tests on holiday with them as 2.3million hit the road on Friday.more

70 percent of non-chain hotels in Paris face closure due to the low number of tourists coming to the French capital during the coronavirus pandemic, according to forecasts by the National Group of Independent Hotels and Restaurants (GNI).more

Fully vaccinated Brits could soon have to quarantine when coming back from Greece or Spain as Covid cases continue to rise in both countries.more

39 percent of Poles surveyed will travel around the country during the holidays, 11 percent will spend their free time abroad - the survey shows. Every third respondent considers going on vacation with a rented car.more

A new riviera was born in Italy. It is called San Bartolo and covers the stretch of the Adriatic coast from Gabicce Mare and Gradara to Pesaro in the Marche region. It is a spectacular 12 km long stretch of wild beach, mountain slopes and beautiful towns.more

He was beaten to the ground and kicked in the head and was one of a group of five Dutch visitors - another of whom was left unconscious - who were attacked by a gang of thirteen, also Dutch. Aged between 18 and 20, they had been ejected from a Playa de Palma club and then went on a violent rampage, attacking people at random.more

Hikers looking to summit Scotland's highest mountain and other peaks in the area are being sent up "potentially fatal" routes by Google Maps, the region's mountaineering organizations have warned.more

In Greece, new restrictions entered into force yesterday due to the fact that the country is struggling with an increase in the number of coronavirus infections. Only people with vaccination certificates may be served inside restaurants, bars and cafes. The new rule does not apply to outdoor spaces.more

The Eiffel Tower has reopened to the public, informed the French agency AFP yesterday. The metal structure, the best known symbol of Paris, has been inaccessible to tourists since the end of October last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.more

Croatia, Bulgaria, Hong Kong and Taiwan have been added to the green list in the latest review of the government’s traffic light system for international travel.more

Malta has abandoned its plan to close its borders on Wednesday to travellers that have not received the COVID-19 vaccine. On Friday the government announced that from July 14, travellers would have to prove they had been vaccinated, which led to criticism from the European Commission.more

"The attacker simply emerged from behind my back and started stabbing him," reports Jacek Kolankiewicz, who was attacked in Tbilisi on 5 July.more