Celestyal Cruises Offers Complimentary Travel Insurance

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To provide guests with additional peace of mind as they look towards to returning to cruising, Celestyal Cruises will provide complimentary travel insurance for new, individual bookings made through to November 30. The travel insurance will be valid for sailings during March-June 2021. The included policy is provided by Allianz Global Assistance and offers coverage of

Heathrow Airport Introduces Pre-flight Covid-19 Testing

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Photo Source: Heathrow Airport London’s Heathrow Airport is the first to carry out rapid one-hour Covid-19 tests before passengers board for travel, authorities announced this week. Passengers through Heathrow terminals 2 and 5 will be able to be screened for Covid-19 with pre-booked tests costing 80 pounds ahead of check-in. Results are made available in […]

Greece on High Alert After Covid-19 Cases Soar

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Photo Source: @EODY Greek authorities are urging the use of mask at all times and strict adherence to hygiene rules after the country announced a record 667 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24-hour period. Deputy Civil Protection Minister Nikos Hardalias appealed on Tuesday to residents in Thessaloniki, Ioannina and Kastoria, to follow measures and […]

Katerini Municipality Looks to Build Successful City Brand

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Photo Source: Municipality of Katerini – video The Municipality of Katerini in northern Greece is aiming to create a successful city brand to attract travelers in the post-Covid-19 era. The city’s new destination branding strategy was discussed during a recent meeting of the Municipality’s Committee for Tourism Development in the presence of Deputy Mayor for […]

Greece’s Small Accommodation Facilities Face Liquidity Troubles

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Impacted by the ongoing coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, occupancy levels at Greece’s small accommodation facilities this year stood at only 25 percent, which in turn led to reduced revenue, according to the Greek Confederation of Tourist Accommodation Enterprises (SETKE). In statement issued this week, SETKE said this year’s “lost” tourism season had come to an end […]

GNTO Promotes Athens and Pelion to French Market

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Travel editor Sarah Chevalley in Portaria on Mount Pelion. The Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) presented the tourism offerings of Athens and Mount Pelion to French journalists who visited the two destinations earlier in October. During the past week, the organization hosted “Le Figaro Magazine” travel editor Sarah Chevalley and photographer Laurent Fabre, who

ITB Asia Kicks Off 1st Virtual Event: Reinventing Travel in the New Normal

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The ITB Asia 2020 virtual travel trade show kicked off today with ITB Community, MICE Show Asia and Travel Tech Asia. ITB Asia 2020, Asia’s leading travel trade show, today opened its virtual doors for the first-ever virtual event. Over the course of the next three-days, almost 900 buyers and 400 exhibitors from all over […]

WTM Virtual Platform is Now Live

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WTM Virtual, the new digital platform for this year’s WTM London and London Travel Week, is now live and open for all registered delegates to create professional and business profiles; connect with exhibitors, trade, media and buyers; pre-schedule meetings; and select unmissable conference sessions. WTM Virtual will take place during November 9-11 with the aim to […]

Greece Still Attracting Travelers in October

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Mandraki harbour, Rhodes. Travelers are still visiting Greece in October with the airports of Rhodes, Kos, Santorini and Mykonos welcoming a total of 130,614 visitors so far this month, said the South Aegean Region, citing data of regional airport manager Fraport Greece. More specifically, a total of 130,614 foreign tourists traveled to Greece on 869 […]

Qatar Airways: 99.988% of Passengers Flown COVID-19-free

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Photo Source: @Qatar Airways Qatar Airways recently reported extremely low numbers of coronavirus cases on board its aircraft after operating more than 4.6 million passenger flown sectors and over 33 billion revenue passenger kilometres on more than 37,000 COVID-19-free flights across the globe since February 2020. “The success of the airline’s COVID-19 monitoring,