This Aviation.Direct section deals with tourism-related topics.
This Aviation.Direct section deals with tourism-related topics and also gives Tips on interesting excursions, destinations, hotels, airports and much moreVarious special offers from airlines, tour operators and so on can also be found in this section, always critically examined, of course.
Tip: Under Travel Tips Here you will find some advice that can be helpful when planning your trip, but also if something goes wrong.
The British shipping company Cunard has announced the planned cruises and transatlantic crossings of its three Queen-class ships for the 2023 summer season. A total of over 150 tours are to be offered. Sales are scheduled to begin in early February 2022. The three cruise ships are expected to carry around 23
The private railway company Regiojet wants to expand more in the area of night trains. Germany and Austria also play a key role in this. For example, in December 2022 they want to start a connection from Berlin via Prague, Vienna and Graz to Zagreb and Ljubljana. According to the company, the necessary routes have already been signed up with the
The shipping company MSC has now released the Caribbean cruises of the new MSC Seascape for the 2022/23 winter season for sale. This is the second ship in the so-called Seaside Evo class. It is scheduled to set sail from Miami in December 2022. Two routes through the Caribbean are offered, which include
The shipping company Tui Cruises has decided that fewer passengers will be allowed on board the cruise ships in the future. The departure of the Mein Schiff 19, scheduled for January 2022, 1, is directly affected. The decision has caused anger among customers who are not allowed to travel. Just on Monday, another
Last year, significantly more travelers traveled internationally, but the figures from the World Tourism Organization UNWTO show that there can be no talk of a real recovery. There were 415 million overnight stays, 72 percent fewer than in 2019. Compared to the first year of Corona, there was an increase of four percent,
The first year of the coronavirus (2020) hit the cruise industry particularly hard. Only around 530.000 passengers were transported across the EU, 93 percent fewer than before the crisis. This is according to figures published by the German Federal Statistical Office. Before the pandemic, the industry had around 7,4 million travelers, achieving
He is a familiar face for the sales partners in the travel agencies: Jörg Lilienthal is moving to the field sales department at Schauinsland-Reisen from February 1st. Before that, he worked for many years as a field sales representative at DER Touristik. Jörg Lilienthal will be the new regional manager north at the Duisburg-based travel provider from February. “We are delighted to have a well-connected
Following Italy, France is also making it difficult for unvaccinated people to use long-distance trains and planes. The 2G rule is being introduced, which means that people without a recovery or vaccination certificate are not allowed to use rail or air connections. In contrast to Italy, however, local public transport is not (yet) affected. In France, some
Ultra-short-haul flights are always under fire and are being taxed particularly heavily by more and more countries. For understandable reasons, islands can usually only be reached by sea or air. It is therefore in the nature of things that there must also be particularly short flights. So short,
For cruise operators, corona cases on board are becoming an increasingly serious problem, which has already repeatedly led to the cancellation or termination of trips. But disembarkation of those who have tested positive is not easy either, because many countries do not want to import cases this way. Most recently, it hit
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