TTC Special: The strange success of travel bubbles

Photo: Pixabay By Frank Martin Some of the so-called Trave Bubbles that financially speaking helped tourist destinations around the world, including some Caribbean islands during Covid-19 epidemic. This is a somewhat strange mechanism that demonstrates the human (and enterprise) tendency to seek innovations. That kind of search is crucial in nowadays tourism visibly destructive stage. Like other countries and regions, the Caribbean island of Barbados used “bubbles" it to limit without quarantine tourists from countries considered important. The Barbados s clients offer is to enjoy certain vacation time without risking the tedium of prolonged confinements with no risk for stability of tourist destinations. Nevertheless, Barbados since Wednesday September 8 has "discontinued" the travel bubble. "The decision to interrupt it was due to the increase in positivity rates and cases in many of our sister countries in the Caribbean," Barbados Medical Director Dr. Kenneth George told reporters. He explained that [...]

By |2023-02-13T16:47:42-04:0010 de September de 2021|Specials, Tourism|0 Comments

Point of View: Italy Considers Opening Safe Travel Corridors

While travel agent associations are on the warpath to draw the Italian Tourism Ministry’s attention in order to get some help from a newly installed dicastery (abolished in the 1990s following a really insane referendum), newly-appointed Tourism Minister Massimo Garavaglia is moving someway

By |2021-09-03T20:53:12-04:003 de September de 2021|Outstanding news, Tourism|0 Comments

WTM London will be platform for exhibitors from across the globe

Together, the exhibitors represent a wide range of tourism companies and organisations, including tourist boards, hotel chains, cruise lines, DMCs and major attractions

By |2021-09-02T18:09:58-04:002 de September de 2021|Business, Events|0 Comments

Two major airlines resume their flight routes to Cuba this Autumn

Cuba's average temperatures for October are in the late twenties and early thirties, making the long, white sandy beaches and crystalline seas the perfect setting for a luxury getaway

By |2021-08-30T18:03:17-04:0030 de August de 2021|Outstanding news, Transportation|0 Comments

TTC Special: Tourism industry still waiting for the “good old days”

UNWTO data shows that, during the first five months of 2021 global destinations recorded 147 million fewer international arrivals compared to the same period in 2020

By |2023-02-13T16:48:50-04:0030 de August de 2021|Outstanding news, Specials|0 Comments

Costa Rica seeks to attract more airlines to connect the country to more US cities

The Minister of Tourism, Gustavo Segura, made the remarks last Monday morning on the Nuestra Voz radio program, where he announced that they are holding talks to establish a direct connection with at least six new cities

By |2021-07-26T15:57:27-04:0026 de July de 2021|Tourism|0 Comments
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