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Ryanair has launched the Price Checker tool and Verified Seal, two new initiatives on the Ryanair website/app to protect customers against Online Travel Agent’s (OTA’s) who may be overcharging customers, providing incorrect customer details and preventing Ryanair from dealing directly with passengers.
The ‘Price Checker’ tool will allow cu… read more
Accor has reported consolidated first-quarter revenue of €361 million for 2021. The figure is down 53 per cent on a reported basis against last year, and down 57 per cent when compared to pre-Covid first quarter of 2019.
RevPAR at the French hotel giant fell by 64 per cent versus quarter one of 2019, reflecting an environment that r… read more
he airline industry’s revenues are expected to take longer to recover
from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic than previously envisaged,
according to the International Air Transport Association.
Industry revenue this year is only likely to recover to 43 per cent
of 2019 levels, compared with a previous forecast in December of 55… read more
Unilabs, the leading European diagnostic services provider, and the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the trade association for the world’s airlines, have signed an agreement to incorporate Unilabs’ worldwide Covid-19 testing network into IATA Travel Pass.
The agreement will make Unilabs one of the first major l… read more
SWISS is to become the first airline in the Lufthansa Group to trial IATA’s new Travel Pass app, which it will do on its Zurich-London Heathrow route from 22 April onwards. The trial marks a major further step in making travel simple and reliable again during the current COVID-19 pandemic. SWISS has also been testing further such concepts… read more
The vaccination is not mandatory travelling, but it should be. Most people are educated enough to make good decisions now. Do you think that should they make vaccination obligatory for travelling?
During the analysis below are some of the key findings of the survey by SchengenVisaInfo:
- The majority of travellers (95 per cent) wo
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Turkey’s central bank on Friday prohibited the use of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin for purchases, citing transaction risks. The ban would be effective as of April 30, the central bank said in legislation published in the Official Gazette.
The new regulation prohibits transfer of cryptocurrencies for purchases or services.
The cen… read more
There has been plenty of positive news for the travel industry globally over the past weeks. With vaccination rates in key outbound tourism countries such as the UK and the USA increasing, the implementation of travel corridors for Israeli and Australian travellers, as well as the relaxing of quarantine measures in popular destinations su… read more
Speaking to the UNWTO Global Tourism Crisis Committee and Commission for the Middle East, ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu noted that ongoing pandemic impacts on international mobility reveal that the world is “back to 2003 levels in terms of global seat capacity.”
“Here in the Middle East, passenger totals dropped by over 70% an… read more
Only with strong and coordinated political action can Europe reopen
to tourism in time for the peak summer season. The World Tourism
Organization (UNWTO) has again stressed the importance of collaboration
as it welcomed European Commission Vice-President Margaritis Schinas to
Madrid for a high-level meeting focused on the joined-u… read more
Ryanair launches new price checker and verified seal to further protect customers from OTAs
Accor preparing for strong rebound this summer
IATA and Unilabs partner to help passengers manage Covid-19 tests
SWISS to trial IATA Travel Pass app
95% of travellers eager to travel abroad as soon as travel bans are removed
Transformation and solidarity key to post-pandemic recovery, ICAO tells Τourism Crisis Committee
UNWTO welcomes EU support and urges Europe to lead the restart
