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On December 7, Mideast received one more distinction for 2017 as one of the “Best Performing Companies” during the “Treasures of Greek Tourism” ceremony that took place in King George Hotel Athens.

Trisha Dubignon won the prize of the "Face of the Year" at the Swahili Fashion Week in Tanzania. Trisha Dubignon was part of the Joëlle Fabre's Coral Models Seychelles participating in this year's Swahili Fashion Week in Tanzania from the 28 November to the 4 December. 

The pilot issuance of e-visa for foreigners entering Viet Nam started in February 2017 and will continue two years. Initially, a total of 40 countries can apply for and receive Vietnamese visas online and now 6 more countries added to the list.

Winning the lottery is a distant dream for the large majority of us. Whenever anyone's asked the question as to what they'd spend the resulting money on, the resulting answers are notoriously predictable - think new house, car, clothes, holiday, depositing it into a savings account (please note: this last group of people are almost always lying; they'd probably spend it faster than me or you).

And how do you usually spend your holidays? Probably the majority, first of all, is trying to relax somewhere, stay better with friends and travel a bit. You can travel in different ways: just to the excursion or combine pleasant and useful - journeys with study and work. Students have mastered exactly this way of spending holidays.

United Nations designated the year 2017 “International Year of Sustainable Tourism Development” - World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Sanrio signed an agreement that appoints Hello Kitty as Special Ambassador of the International Year. Sanrio's best-known character, Hello Kitty will promote the Year’s campaign “Travel. Enjoy. Respect”.

Le Cordon Bleu, a leading global network of culinary arts and hospitality management institutes, officially launched its "Japanese Cuisine Diploma". The official launch event took place on November 21 at theTokyo institute. During the event, the new course that started in October 2017 was presented.

World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) revealed a new report titled Latin America City Travel & Tourism Impact. The study covers 65 cities, six of which are in Latin America. Here are the details for Santiago, Bogotá, and Lima.

The threat of a major volcanic eruption at Mount Agungin Bali, Indonesia has forced the evacuation of 40,000 people from the volcano's foothills. Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali is currently closed until the next 18 hours. The airport's closure disrupted at least 445 flights and roughly 59,000 passengers.

Florida set another tourism record by welcoming the highest number of visitors of any nine months in the state’s history with 88.2 million visitors - a 3.3 percent increase over the 85.4 million visitors from the same period in 2016.