Paid booking of visits to St. Mark's Basilica in Venice on a selected date and free admission tickets - these are changes announced from spring. The money from the reservation will be used for the conservation of the temple, which suffered as a result of the flood.more
The number of foreign tourists visiting Poland is growing. In the first three quarters of 2019, there were 8.2% more than in the same period of 2018. The highest growth dynamics was recorded on the South Korean market - 67.3%.more
Rome's city council assembly has backed plans to install a barrier around the famed Trevi Fountain to protect the Baroque monument from hordes of tourists.more
Spain hit a record of tourist arrivals for the seventh year in a row, Industry and Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto said on Monday, adding that she was optimistic about 2020, but without providing any specific forecast.more
Spain's Balearic Islands banned pub crawl tours and happy hours in three holiday hotspots on Friday in a string of new measures to crack down on binge-drinking tourists. The new regulations also outlawed "balconing", where revellers jump off balconies, often into hotel swimming pools - a practice that has killed dozens of drunken visitors over the years.more
Photographs of a foreigner selling bracelets in Sri Lanka cause a debate among internet users and journalists about the begging of Western tourists. Some of the participants express outrage at this phenomenon in social media.more
More and more tourists from the United Arab Emirates report near Giewont. They feast, visit, spend money ... sometimes they will even buy real estatemore
A day after rumbling to life, the Taal Volcano in the central Philippines began to spew lava on Monday - and officials warn that eruptions could last months or even years. The volcano is located in the Batangas province and is the country's second most active volcano.more
The small medieval village of Corenno Plinio, a hidden gem overlooking Italy's Lake Como, is set to charge visitors a daily entrance fee in a bid to make it a tourist hub, dividing opinion among the tiny local population. more
A motorist drove into a large tour group in the Italian city of Luttach, killing at least six people and injuring others. It was unclear what caused the incident, but authorities believe it was not intentional.more
The Polish consulate in Milan informed Polish tourists staying in Italy about the high avalanche risk in the Italian Alps. In recent days, four people died in avalanches in this country.more
Workers at Portway, which provides ground handling to airport passengers, began a three-day strike today in protest at what they say is a freeze on career progression and other rights. more
During the Christmas and New Year period, Poles are most likely to go to Egypt, which has 40% market share - the Polish Chamber of Tourism reports.more
Long ago there were not so many free places for New Year's Eve in the Polish mountains. The number of reservations has dropped by as much as a quarter.more
The Empire State Building was been named by the ride-hail app service as the number one tourist attraction in the world that its users traveled to in 2019.more
Come to Venice, the city is alive - mayor Luigi Brugnaro encourages tourists after the recent flood in response to the cancellation of hotel reservations. The city is visited by 20 million people every year.more
For the first time, Venice has been "abandoned" by tourists on a scale that has not been recorded there before, according to data from hotels. It is - as you can see - the result of the record flood that hit the city in November.more
In coastal areas, 5 million 346,000 tourists used accommodation facilities in 2018, i.e. more by 9.4 percent than in 2017, when 4.9 million people came to the sea - according to data from the Central Statistical Office (GUS).more
French hotel owners assailed Airbnb on Wednesday over its new partnership with the International Olympic Committee, warning they would stop working on the planning for the Paris 2024 summer Games to protest against what they call an unfair competitor.more
Venice sought to return to normal life on Monday after a week of unprecedented flooding that devastated the city, submerging homes, business and cultural treasures.more
Venice was hit Sunday by a record third exceptional tide in the same week while other parts of Italy struggled with a series of weather woes, from rain-swollen rivers to high winds to an out-of-season avalanche.more
