The U.S. Travel Association's latest Travel Trends Index (TTI), projects a slowdown in both international and domestic travel growth, as both segments could continue to feel the effects of rising trade tensions, volatile financial markets and weakening business and consumer confidence.
The U.S. National Travel and Tourism Office announced a record-setting 93 million departures in 2018, a six-percent increase over 2017. 45% of the 93 million Americans (41.8 million) traveled outside the United States flew to overseas destinations, a 9% increase from 2017.
During the first 11 months of President Trump's travel ban, the U.S. only granted waivers to 6 percent of visa applicants from countries on the list, according to a new report.
Arrivals from the Middle East to Egypt are expected to increase 50% from 1.49 million in 2018 to 2.23 million in 2022 with visitors from Saudi Arabia driving this growth.
The 2019 China-New Zealand Year of Tourism is officially kicked off with an aim for China and New Zealand to strengthen economic ties through tourism.
Enterprise Rent-A-Car UK has signed an agreement to acquire Romsey-based SHB Hire, an award-winning family-owned vehicle hire and management business.
Hawaii Tourism Authority announced tourism statistics for February 2019.
Netflix’s supernatural thriller, “Stranger Things” returns to “Halloween Horror Nights” 2019 at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort, debuting all-new mazes inspired by seasons 2 and 3 of the critically-acclaimed series.
Turkish Airlines will launch flights from Istanbul to Mexico City and Cancun in August. The flights expect to increase tourist flow to Mexico not only from Turkey but from Europe, Middle East and Africa since the Turkish carrier flies more international destinations than any other carrier on earth.
As Dubai targets 20 million annual visitors by 2020, plus an additional five million between October 2020 and April 2021 for Expo 2020 – 70% of which will come from outside the UAE – a number of initiatives to increase stopover tourism have been introduced including new transit visas and dedicated tourism packages.
