Thursday, Mar 17, 2022

* * *Food prices in Egypt were already climbing before Russia invaded Ukraine and now bread, a politically symbolic staple on which many Egyptians heavily depend, is also becoming more expensive as ex...

Tuesday, Mar 15, 2022

Malta Airport sees 24% rise in traffic over January, with healthy seat-load factor of 70% showing improved demand for travel from UK *Passenger traffic into Malta International Airport registered a se...

Tuesday, Mar 15, 2022

* * * The Malta Business Bureau (MBB) believes in the added value that diversity brings within companies, including at Board room levels.* The EU Council today adopted the proposal for a Directive on ...

Sunday, Mar 13, 2022

*As forecasted, a weekend of heavy snowfall sweeps over part of Turkey and Greece causing disruptions and travel chaos.* Four lorries and a clearing vehicle crashed into each other on a motorway in Is...

Sunday, Mar 13, 2022

*The corporate travel sector is struggling to recruit and retain staff as business recovers after losing up to 60% of staff at the high point of the pandemic.* Pat McDonagh, chief executive of Clarity...

Friday, Mar 11, 2022

*ACI EUROPE (Airports Council International) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) called for all remaining COVID restrictions applying to intra-EU and Schengen area travel to be drop...

Wednesday, Mar 09, 2022

*During the fourth quarter of 2021, there were 34 cruise liner calls in Malta. Transit passengers accounted for the absolute majority of total traffic, reaching 42,166 passengers. On average, every ve...

Wednesday, Mar 09, 2022

*Turkey's airports hosted 9.4 million passengers in February, the country’s air travel authority announced Tuesday.* The figure was 74% higher than that of February 2021 when the number of air passeng...

Wednesday, Mar 09, 2022

*For the athletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, travel entailed ... robots. Everywhere. These machines prepared and served noodles, rice and burgers, and roamed hallways to take the temperat...

Tuesday, Mar 08, 2022

*Jordan has removed the need for arrivals into the country to take PCR tests before departure and on arrival – regardless of vaccination status.* The change of rules came into effect on March 1, and t...

Tuesday, Mar 08, 2022

*The strongest recovery in business travel since the start of the pandemic in March 2020 has been claimed.* Data compiled for the Business Travel Association suggests that traveller confidence has ret...

Tuesday, Mar 08, 2022

*Ireland has dropped all Covid restrictions for travellers to the country.* The relaxation of rules came into force from Sunday 6th March, including the removal of the need for travellers to fill in t...