#travel

Straws in the wind: recently I ran across a post by the CEO of a nationwide professional association in Canada. People like him are used to hopping across the US ...

Large numbers of Cypriots are spending the Easter holidays abroad, data from the travel agents’ association showed on Tuesday. The picture emerging from the first four months of the year, ...

By Brendan Canavan A town in the US state of Vermont closed its roads to tourists in September 2023 after a social media tag sparked a swarm of visitors that overwhelmed ...

Holiday travel by Cypriots for Christmas and New Year are on the rise, mirroring the trend seen during the summer months, and is expected to surpass 2019’s record numbers. According ...

The foreign ministry on Sunday reiterated a warning against travel to southern Lebanon. Cypriot nationals are advised to avoid non-essential travel to south Lebanon, to areas south of the Litani-river, ...

In a ten-day tour of China, Jonathan Shkurko welcomes the serenity efficiency brings, and the outstanding flavours of its rich and varied cuisine In the grand mosaic of China’s ...

Fifteen per cent of Cypriots never leave the island! And Cyprus tops the list of EU countries from which people rarely travel abroad. ALIX NORMAN asks why Only 40 per cent ...

Limassol mayor Nicos Nicolaides this week spoke on the city’s efforts to prepare for a busy tourist summer season, particularly in terms of visitors arriving on cruise ships. According ...

The island’s airports saw the best February ever, with passenger numbers up 10 per cent over the pre-pandemic month in 2019, operating company Hermes said on Friday. According to Hermes, a ...

A passenger died onboard a plane travelling from Cyprus to London on Thursday afternoon, British media have reported. Concern spread among passengers of the EasyJet flight over the man’s ...

The cabinet on Wednesday approved the €165 million incentive plan for airlines for the period 2023-2027 to bring in up to 13.7 million visitors, which had been proposed jointly by the ministries ...

As chaos continues at airports around Europe, the Consumer Protection Service on Friday outlined travellers when they are able to claim compensation for delayed or cancelled flights. Those who have ...

Travel company executive Akis Kelepeshis expects the airport and airline chaos gripping Europe to subside in the coming weeks as thousands of flights have already been cancelled and more people ...

The United States will drop from Sunday a 17-month-old requirement that people arriving in the country by air test negative for COVID-19, an official said, a move that follows intense ...

Cyprus ranked sixth among the most popular countries in the world where Britons are likely to travel to in 2022, according to a survey carried out by UK search engine for ...

The Council of Ministers has decided that the new action plan for the smooth operation of flights and airports will enter into force from February 21, instead of March 1 as initially ...

Vaccinated passengers and those who have recovered from Covid-19 will be exempted from travel regulations based on the epidemiological categorisation of their country according to the new national travel regulations ...

The health ministry has reclassified three countries on its list of colour-coded destinations for Covid-19. The changes, which take effect from Thursday December 30 included moving New Zealand from orange to ...

The consumer protection service on Friday fined a travel agency €50,000 for violating travel laws. The company Love Island Travel & Tours Ltd received an administrative fine for violating a number ...

European Union countries are expected to agree to limit to nine months the duration of COVID-19 certificates for travel around the bloc, three EU sources told Reuters, but some states ...

Omicron travel ban has separated families and disrupted business Like dozens of South African Cypriots, Michalis Polyviou was appalled by the government’s decision last Friday to ban all flights ...

Britain will scrap tough COVID-19 quarantine requirements for 47 destinations including South Africa on Monday and make it easier for people to arrive from countries including India, Brazil and Turkey in ...

The health ministry on Monday issued new country guidelines for travel, downgrading Sweden and Belgium from Orange to Red, among others, and Austria, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and Norway from Green to ...

The number of Cypriots travelling abroad this year is low, according to the Association of Travel Agents President Vassilis Stamataris. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency on Friday, Stamataris said ...