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Tourism
TikTok has become an influential force in travel discovery. Selling travel more directly would make it formidable.
Dawit Habtemariam | 2 weeks ago
Cruises
Cruise lines have work to do to prepare for the European Union's new border control measures coming this year and next.
Airlines
As the saying goes about changes to the way Google displays flights, the devil will be in the details.
Dennis Schaal | 2 months ago
Romanians and Bulgarians won't need passports for EU travel when flying or sailing, but they will still need them when using land borders.
Jan Strupczewski, Reuters | 3 months ago
Online Travel
Booking.com's appeal of the adverse European Commission decision on its merger with eTraveli Group will take years to play out. If self-styled "bigger fish" eTraveli is still around for the taking, it would cost considerably more.
Dennis Schaal | 6 months ago
This is might be called Booking Holdings statement of objections to the EC’s statement of objections to the eTraveli deal. This dust-up is heading for the courts.
News Blog
The European Union is on track to ban marketing claims such as "climate neutral" by 2026 that scientifically based certification can't validate. Claims such as "carbon neutral," "environmentally friendly," and "eco" will require companies to verify their products' merits through third-party certification schemes. Travel companies are among the industries that may be affected by the…
Sean O'Neill | 6 months ago
European authorities will seemingly have to find way other ways to reduce the carbon footprint of the airline industry. It's incredibly unlikely much of the European Union will support France's push for minimum pricing on flights.
Reuters | 6 months ago
In the first half of 2023, Europe experienced its highest number of tourist stays in the past decade, according to Eurostat, the European Union's statistics agency. Europe recorded 1.19 billion night stays between January and June 2023, up by 0.9% and 12.9% from the same period in 2019 and 2022, respectively. International tourism gave Europe…
Dawit Habtemariam | 6 months ago
If the European Commission's decision isn't overturned, one implication may be that Booking.com would be precluded in practice from making major acquisitions. Period.
Dennis Schaal | 7 months ago