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Turkey to benefit from rise in budget-conscious travelers

April 7, 2022520 Views

With traveler confidence taking yet another hit amid the rising cost-of-living across Europe, Turkey will emerge as the destination of choice for budget-conscious travelers in 2022, finds GlobalData, the leading data and analytics company. Research from GlobalData’s Traveler Spending Patterns database shows that in-destination spending is relatively low in Turkey, despite the average stay for inbound tourists (9.7 days) being the second-longest in Europe in 2021. Compared to average inbound expenditure in popular leisure destinations such as Spain and Portugal, travelers could potentially save anywhere between $230 and $770 per trip if they travel to Turkey instead of these destinations. FILE PHOTO: A man sits in an area marked by cordons of ropes and wooden stakes to enforce social...

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Advancing harmonized travel protocols and financing tourism’s survival

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April 10, 2021786 Views

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has again convened its Global Tourism Crisis Committee to lead the sector in harmonizing travel and health protocols and securing vital financing for businesses struggling to survive an historic crisis. The ninth meeting of the Crisis Committee advanced solutions to the biggest challenges standing in the way of international travel returning. Committee members, drawn from political leadership, international organizations, including UNWTO’s sister UN agencies, finance and the private sector, discussed the Crisis Committee’s Recommendations, which focus on four core areas: the resumption of safe, cross-border travel; promoting safe travel at all points of the tourist journey; providing liquidity to tourism businesses and protecting jobs, and rest...

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65% Indians intend to travel for leisure in 2021

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April 2, 20211070 Views

InterMiles Consumer Sentiment Index reveals people are craving to break away from monotony In times of current pandemic things are changing very fast and even when we are going for vaccination at rapid pace, increase in numbers of active infections over the last fortnight has caught everyone by surprise. But it has been quite a long past 12 months and people are eager to break free. They are craving for travel. We have already passed the first quarter of the calendar year and time for traditional summer vacations is very close. Therefore—although in uncertain terms—but it is time to see what people expected of a new year. A survey has revealed the travel wishes of the travellers. InterMiles, a leading loyalty and rewards programme, has published results of their second travel...