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If you're on holiday in Dubai, sometimes only a delicious Turkish meal will do. If you’re on the hunt for some much-needed home comforts, you can rely on this article to help you explore the latest and best Turkish food trends in the City of Gold.

Tourism New Zealand and New Zealand Winegrowers have joined forces to support the wine industry. According to a new research in the country, around 25% of international tourists visiting New Zealand now seek out a “wine experience”, visiting our beautiful wineries, cellar doors and vineyard accommodation.

According to a new consumer holiday travel survey, 40% of Americans – or 99.8 million people – plan to travel over the course of the 2017 holiday season. Millennials plan to travel more than any other age demographic (48%) and those with children are the segment most likely to travel at 54%.

Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) announced that Tokyo has been selected as the Number 1 Asian/Middle Eastern city to visit for 2018, based on a survey results of over 160,000.

The Mata Tourism Authority (MTA) announced inbound tourism results to the Maltese Islands. According to the October 2017 report of National Statistics Office, Malta achieved increase in total inbound visitors (12%), total nights spent (6.2%) and total tourism expenditure (10.2%).

Online travel retailer Travelstart says it exceeded Black Friday sales targets despite the practices of unscrupulous travel agents who bought their travel deals, marked up the prices and onsold them to unsuspecting consumers. Travelstart’s founder Stephan Ekbergh said, “it happens often when we run campaigns. The sad thing is that unwitting consumers end up paying a lot more for travel than they should."

Following the negotiations between Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko, the two countries have agreed upon a visa-free regime.

The British Pound has fallen as much as 22 percent since the referendum on leaving the European Union. This has been good for the tourism industry in Britain, as it’s now cheaper to visit the country for tourists from abroad. But what about outbound tourism? The rest of the world is now more expensive for outbound British tourists.

A new study titled 'The Power of Travel' uncovered the impact of travel on young travelers. Contiki commissioned the study, advised by leading social psychologist Adam Ganlinsky, PhD, Columbia Business School, surveying 3,000 18-35 year olds around the world.

The Kigali Global Shapers has partnered with National Aviation Services (NAS), the fastest growing aviation services provider in the emerging markets, for an exclusive sponsor of #VisaFreeAfrica (VFA), a global campaign to facilitate mobility in Africa.

So far, 2017 has been a very good year for travel and tourism in Europe with very good growth in outbound trips and good performances by many destinations across the region over the first eight months of the year. City trips are continuing to boom and beach holidays have grown much more strongly than in 2016 but long-haul travel by Europeans has slowed down, including a downturn in trips to the USA from some European source markets. Looking ahead, another good year is forecast for 2018.

With total outbound spending of US$24.2 billion in 2016, Hong Kong ranked World's 10th  / Asia 3rd largest market, according to the UNWTO Tourism Barometer. But Hong Kong is No.1 among these 10 largest markets by per capita spending of US$3285!

The American Bus Association (ABA) – the industry leader advancing the North American motorcoach, travel and tour industry – urged school groups of all ages not to cancel educational field trips around the country out of fear of traveling in and around the United States.

The National Tour Association has openings. While NTA isn’t doing the hiring itself, the association of packaged-travel experts has launched the NTA Career Center, an online interactive job board.