Romania's Competition Council has fined a number of 13 tour operators and the tour operators' organisation ANAT with amounts totalling RON 11.4 million ...

From a Red Light District walking tour of Amsterdam to a foodie and yoga tour in Provence to a helicopter and Harley tour in South Africa, there are new FIT ...

With all the things a travel agent needs to juggle, trying to determine when your commissions will arrive is one less worry if you have a reference list on hand.

TUARAN: A tourism entrepreneur here has urged the state government to put its foot down to curtail the “unscrupulous practices of dishonest tour operators from ...

Interest in Egypt among U.S. travelers, which fell into a long, deep slumber following the Arab Spring unrest of 2011 and subsequent incidents, is With little ...

2018 is an eventful year for travel agencies as a number of small OTAs and brick-and-mortar tour operators as many of them have bid farewell to the business.

The scheme established to compensate holiday-goers when *service* providers go bust has less than half the funding on hand that was required to cover the ...

In the past couple of years, there has been an unprecedented growth in the biking tourism niche in several cities across the world and Barcelona seems to be ...

From sleeping in igloos to living like a local in Vietnam, Collette is embarking on 2019 with a variety of exciting and unique offerings for travelers.

Tour operators have seen minimal impact so far from the lack of staffing in national parks, but they are very concerned about the long-term implications of a ...

A seemingly freewheeling networking event over food and drinks can provide the structure needed to encourage new and lasting connections.

Tour operators are slashing the cost of holidays this summer to lure in early bookings and avoid a repeat of last year's sales slump. January is traditionally a ...

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Tourism, Culture and Environment Ministry is going on full force to catch tourists and tour operators who are engaged in irresponsible ...

TOUR operators are to be instructed on the best practice for promoting marine stinger safety, to better protect visitors to the Great Barrier Reef from deadly ...

On Tuesday, the government issued a “travel and tourism industry communications toolkit” in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

WHY IT RATES: smarTours is making it possible for even more people to participate in a bucket-list around the world journey.—Mia Taylor, TravelPulse Senior ...

LAO and Chinese authorities are drawing up detailed plans for activities during Visit Laos-China Year 2019, the first time Laos has partnered with another ...

A collaboration in Florida has formed to keep national parks there open and clean.

Whether or not the British parliament comes up with an agreement before the country's scheduled departure from the European Union March 29, tourism officials ...

Jan 6, 2019 | Environment & tourism | 0 |. Tour operator pushes tourism growth. Leading Victoria Falls tour operator, Wild Horizons, whose total investments in ...

Fishermen and tour operators are bracing for losses as the Met Office says another four days of rough seas are on the horizon. High winds have battered the ...

DENALI PARK — The Alaska Railroad has installed a winter shelter at the Denali National Park train depot to accommodate winter visitors who end up waiting ...

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – The partial government shutdown means that most workers in Yellowstone National Park were not on the job for 20 days ...

The Champaign County Visitors Bureau, a committee of the Champaign County Chamber, is completing plans to attend the AAA Great Vacations Travel EXPO in ...

BRETTON WOODS — The Omni Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, along with the city of Portsmouth and two other Hampshire resorts, have made it ...

Twelve local guides are the face of a new South African Tourism promotional push. The 'Meet Your South Africa' campaign showcases the wealth travel ...

AGRICULTURE Minister Clarence Rambharat says scarlet ibis numbers have possibly increased in the Caroni Bird Sanctuary but the risk of poachers remains.

Here's one bit of good news for the environment -- and your 2019 travel wish list.

The coalition of businesses that are keeping access to most of Yellowstone National Park open during the federal government shutdown are reaching out for.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — To enhance awareness and advocacy for climate change adaptation in the fisheries sectors of Anguilla and Montserrat, the ...

Awareness of travel programmes can boost your touring sales figures, says Greg Thurston, head of agency sales at Cox and Kings.

Tourism Ireland in Germany kicked off its 2019 programme of promotions at CMT (holiday exhibition) in Stuttgart this week. Tourism Ireland is joined at CMT by ...

Seabourn is ensuring that its 2019 season in Alaska & British Columbia unfolds as an immersive experience and stands out with an impressive offering of ...

About half a million Africans in the Diaspora are expected to arrive in the country to take part in “The Year of Return Ghana 2019”, a historic campaign to mark ...

New Delhi, Jan 16 (KNS): Launching its aggressive marketing campaign, the Department of Tourism, participated in the 3-day South Asian Travel and Tourism ...

Ryanair has discontinued its package holiday *service* known as Ryanair Holidays. A statement on the company website says "Ryanair Holidays is discontinuing ...

Add another operator to the booming expedition cruise market as Scylla today announced it had acquired the Bremen from Hapag-Lloyd Cruises. The...

While welcoming the reduction of GST on Haj travel from 18% to 5%, NGO Haj Seva Samiti president Hafiz Naushad Ahmad Azmi has requested PM Narendra ...

The Bengal Tourism Meet by Confederation of Indian Industry kicked off on Monday on a positive note, pegging West Bengal at the sixth position in term.

Government, will through four campaigns including Twende Uganda, Destination Uganda, Pearl of Africa Tourism and an enhanced Tulambule Drive, seek to ...

Tourism Malaysia Mumbai has conducted a roadshow in Mumbai on January 9, 2019 at St Regis Hotel. A total of 30 participants from 22 organisations from ...

Mark Williams and Philip Edmans of Inflexion Private Equity explain why. The travel sector is coveted by investors because it is growing 50% faster than the ...

After the initial success of the first ever international hot air balloon festival last year at Araku, Andhra Pradesh Tourism is back with.

Seven golf course in central Vietnam have joined together to form a new golf-specific marketing group – the Vietnam Golf Coast – extending from the ...

Thai outbound travel to Japan is set to continue growing this year despite the new departure tax, or sayonara levy, charged to all passengers leaving the country.

Good news for cross-border cruise lovers. Your dream of travelling between Bangladesh and India, while also enjoying the beauty of the mystic Sundarbans and ...

Iceland: While Iceland is a relatively short flight from the East Coast, its pricey reputation has also kept many travelers at a distance. But that should change in ...

From Norway to Australia, and from Japan to Puerto Rico, here's our pick of destinations – enough to keep you busy for every week of the next 12 months ...

John Amaratunga Pic by Pradeep Dilrukshana. Rs.3bn Global Promotion Campaign likely to be launched in Dubai this April; Chinese tourist arrivals to increase ...

Vietnam has been named among the top ten hot destinations for US travelers in 2019 by the US Tour Operators Association (USTOA).

In 2018, around 1.32 million Indian visitors landed in Singapore.

This article was first published in the Itinerary Planning Special Report. All information was correct at the time of printing, but may since have changed. Once a ...

Good Morning! Matthias Alexander. head of the Regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. F. A. Z.. Never change a winning team, is an old coach's ...

Air Canada Vacations has launched a new Flash Sale weekly deals offering travel agents' clients heavily discounted packages on popular destinations in ...

The Turquoise Holiday Company has won the title of best tour operator in the 2018 Telegraph Travel Awards, based on the opinions of almost 50,000 readers, ...

Tour operators are some of the largest contributors to overtourism as they bring busloads of tourists to the world's most popular destinations each day.

Local tourists tour a waterfall in Nyungwe National Park during the Tembera u Rwanda campaign. Faustin Niyigena. Twitter · Facebook · Email · Whatsapp ...

Cox & Kings began offering custom travel in 1758 - nearly two decades before America declared independence. In the 260 years since, the company has carved ...

NDO/VNA – Vietnam has been named among the top ten hot destinations for US travellers in 2019 by the US Tour Operators Association (USTOA).

For lovers of corporate curiosities, Europe offers an unlikely sight: Tour operators that run everything from strip-mall travel agencies to airlines, cruise ships and ...

The Madhya Pradesh State Haj Committee is holding today i.e. Tuesday January 15, 2019 the Haj Qurrah or draw of lots to finalise the list of pilgrims who will ...

After being closed for two years to allow its diminishing golden jellyfish population to recover, Ongeim'l Tketau Jellyfish Lake has reopened.

Vacationers want to experience something new and are tired of the same old tours and activities. While global tour operators are baking more customization into ...

More than 270 passengers on board Royal Caribbean's Oasis Of The Seas have been hit with a highly contagious bout of norovirus since Sunday.

Ikogosi is a town in south-western Nigeria near where visitors come to dip their feet in a confluence created by the meeting of warm and cold springs that flow ...

Last year the tourism industry prospered with an overall increase of 21.5 percent growth from 2016. A total of 254,704 tourists visited the country compared with ...

Hawai'i Ecotourism Association (HEA) celebrated its Annual Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, at the Hilton Waikīkī Beach Hotel. The event honored ...

If there were a competition to find the word of the year in the tourism sector, there'd be only one serious contender for 2018: overtourism. From Barcelona to Bali, ...

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PHOENIX -- The tour operator sector has grown 26% over the past two years to become a nearly $19 billion industry, according to a new PwC survey released at ...

Cox & Kings, which bills itself as the oldest tour operator in the world, doesn't want to over-promise the celebrities and heads of state ...

Licensed tour operators are crying foul over increasing illegal activities in the N.W.T.'s tour industry. Meanwhile, the territorial government says it has fined one ...

Tour operators are furious at a ban stopping them driving near Rome's ancient monuments, fearing for their businesses. But the city's mayor is refusing to back ...

There can be a tendency, in this quick-click age of travel, where many breaks can be booked online in a matter of minutes, to see every holiday operator as a ...

The 40th annual conference of the United States Tour Operators Association (USTOA) in Phoenix is taking place at a time when the industry is booming, ...

Sabre (NASDAQ:SABR) and Edgewater Technology (NASDAQ:EDGW) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will ...

With all the things a travel agent needs to juggle, trying to determine when your commissions will arrive is one less thing to worry about, if you have this handy ...

Eight tour operators including AMA Waterways and Discover Egypt have joined the Specialist Travel Association (Aito) alongside two agencies and two affilates.

KOTA KINABALU: Six tour operators who have been offering illegal fishing packages to tourists within the protected Tunku Abdul Rahman marine park here ...

Small tour operators are on the verge of collapse as market demand in the tourism sector took a hit among Western visitors, as bookings for the impending peak ...

Our readers told us they loved our recent compilation of fam trip policies for the top cruise lines in the market, so we've done the research again and here we ...

Periods of prolonged hot weather can hurt tour operators with potential customers staying at home or booking a domestic trip instead. However, it shouldn't be ...

This article is from TMR's Escorted Tour Operator Report Card for Travel Agents. The report is the fourth in a series of supplier policy report cards designed as a ...

It's January, the month we laugh in the face of Christmas overspending and skip all the way to the 2019 holiday sales. Lured by big seasonal discounts, millions ...

As Myanmar looks to repair its international reputation after the Rohingya crisis, tour companies argue that a strategic plan will help attract an increasing amount ...

From finding back-door entrances into famous sights to encouraging extra-early wake-up calls, tour operators are trying to alleviate overcrowding and create ...

FF TD says tourists are 'stranded' in Ireland after Exploring Vacations ceases trading.

NEW DELHI: Inbound tourists to India crossed the 10 million threshold for the first time last year but overseas inflow of tourists into the country for leisure travel ...

Tour operators in Tanzania are losing hope on the government's delay to enforce the import duty exemptions on tourist vehicles ...

NEW DELHI: Beware of handing over your money to tour operators without checking credentials. A Karol Bagh-based businessman learnt it the hard way when ...

A role reversal of sorts has been afoot in the hotel sector: as global brands shed owned assets, traditional tour operators are stepping in to become hotel owners.

NEW DELHI: Tour operators and OTAs are expecting a bumper quarter this festive season as bookings for festivals like Dussehra, Durga Puja and Diwali ...

Dublin, Nov. 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Travel and Tourism: Travel Agencies, Tour Operators and Related Services in South Africa 2018" report has ...

Britain's biggest and most influential tour operators have signalled their support for Telegraph Travel's family safety campaign by agreeing to share their data ...

The minister responsible for tourism in the Northwest Territories says the government is doing more to combat illegal tour operators, but insists the problem is ...

Travel Market Report heeds the call from its travel agent advisory board with the fourth in a series of scorecards intended to enhance the sales process.

Leading German tour operators, including Thomas Cook, DER Touristik and Alltours, have opened up large parts of their summer 2019 programmes for ...

A trickle of cruise ship passengers, many in their 70s and using canes and other walking aids, disembarked Wednesday from Holland America's Amsterdam ...

Tour Territory is an ongoing series looking at tourism in the Northwest Territories. This story is part two of Monday's story. Unlicensed tour operators that are ...

More than 100 Haj pilgrims from Marathawada region scheduled to return from Jeddah on Sunday were stuck in the holy city of Medina after alleged differences ...