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Holiday firm Lastminute.com has agreed to repay more than £7m owed to customers whose package holidays were cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis.more

President Emmanuel Macron announced "restrictions and deterrents" against French people wanting to ski abroad on Christmas Day. Prime Minister Jean Castex announced a 7-day quarantine for people returning from foreign resorts.more

The domestic airlines have announced resuming mountain view flights from next week after eight months of closure, as economic activities have started to pick-up again and return to normal, including all tourism-related activities.more

Some large hotel chains in Spain and Portugal have offered hotel stays paid monthly at a price lower than the cost of renting an apartment in these countries, the Spanish daily "El Mundo" informed yesterday.more

A new £55m cruise terminal is set to open in the port of Southampton, despite the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the travel industry.more

Germany announced Wednesday that it will push for Europe to ban ski holidays in a bid to curb coronavirus infections, while cases of Covid-19 reached a new peak of more than 60 million globally.more

People arriving in England will be soon able to reduce their quarantine period by more than half if they pay for a Covid test after five days, the transport secretary has announced.more

Compulsory mask on the slope, 50 percent of the seats in the roller coasters, the limit of skiers - such a plan for the ski season during the epidemic was developed by experts in Italy. It is intended to cover areas in the yellow and orange zones with lower risk of infection.more

Greece ordered a nationwide lockdown on Thursday for three weeks to help contain a resurgence of COVID-19 cases. “I’ve chosen to take drastic measures sooner rather than later,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said.more

The announcement of the yellow zone across the country has frozen tourism. In the first week after the announcement of the restrictions, the number of bookings fell by more than 40% compared to the end of September - according to the report of the Noclegi.pl platform. The mood in the industry is getting worse.more

Canary Islands authorities have introduced a ban on smoking in the streets. The new law, which has been in force in the Spanish archipelago since yesterday, is justified by the possibility of coronavirus contamination through nicotine smoke.more

The governments of the autonomous communities of the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, the most touristic regions of Spain, will cover tourists leaving these archipelagos with the cost of coronavirus testing, according to an agreement between the authorities of both these regions with the government of Pedro Sanchez.more

15 kilograms of sand and pebbles from the beaches of Sardinia were sent back to the island by a resident of Tuscany after 40 years, since she took this peculiar holiday souvenir from there. She found sand in her basement.more

Even several hundred Polish tourists were put under compulsory quarantine after their arrival in Egypt, the media reported, citing, inter alia, to signals from tourists. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs ensures that the matter is known to the consular services.more

Travellers returning from the Greek islands of Lesbos, Tinos, Serifos, Santorini and Zakynthos will no longer need to self-isolate.more

For a week now, a new refund policy for a trip unrealized due to COVID-19 applies. Travelers have already submitted over 26,000 applications - the Polish daily "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" reports.more

The collapse in aviation caused by the coronavirus pandemic could wipe out 46 million jobs worldwide, according to new research that highlights just how damaging a prolonged downturn in air travel and tourism is for the global economy.more

Only in shorts and sneakers, the young Briton wanted to climb Mount Kehlstein (1,834 m above sea level) near Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps. He fell from a height of one hundred meters. He survived, but is seriously injured - informed the daily "Bild".more

The shrinking list of countries to which you can leave Great Britain without the need to undergo a 14-day quarantine after returning, makes the interest in traveling there is growing significantly. This is especially true of Italy, Turkey and Poland, notes The Times.more

EU Member States may introduce restrictions on the provision of short-term rental services, ruled the Court of Justice of the EU. "The Polish government is delighted," assesses Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.more

Due to the coronavirus epidemic, the inauguration of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, scheduled for 2026, will be delayed, the temple construction council and the investment architect announced yesterday.more

Popular among tourists regions of Spain yesterday announced restrictions on the use of public space. Among them is the Autonomous Community of Madrid, as well as the Balearic island of Ibiza and the main city of Majorca - Palma.more

Despite the pandemic, Poles went on holiday in large numbers this summer. The tourist industry could not complain about the lack of tourists in the season, e.g. in Zakopane, Świnoujście or Giżycko - sums up today's "Rzeczpospolita".more

Travellers from mainland Portugal to England will have to quarantine from 04:00 BST on Saturday, just weeks after the country was put on the safe list.more

Many parents cannot use their children's travel voucher because they have problems with its activation. So far, the Polish Tourist Organization has received 20,000 appeals in this case.more