January 8 will forever mark yet another tragic day in Ukraine’s history: a Boeing 737 belonging to Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) crashed soon after taking off...
Tag - Travel & Tourism
If Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, was hoping to make a dent in Georgia’s booming tourist industry when he introduced a ban on Russian airlines flying to...
Did you know you can ski in Hungary? Until recently, I didn’t. And quite frankly, I had always made fun of Hungarians due to the fact that every hill over 200 metres in...
There was a time not so long ago when few people travelled to emerging Europe for the food. Great restaurants were thin on the ground and service was invariably...
Can I have a soya cappuccino, please? I am placing an order in one of the many Coffeesta coffee shops in the Georgian capital Tbilisi. This one is on the city’s main...
Few real estate investment sectors across Central and Southeastern Europe, Russia and the CIS are currently attracting as much attention as hotels. Emerging Europe...
One of the joys of life in most parts of emerging Europe has long been a guaranteed white Christmas. Not this year. The vast majority of the region has recently...
Croatia must use the presidency of the Council of the European Union to further promote tourism in the country, says the Minister of Tourism Gari Cappelli. This come...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
A quick headcount of passengers on a midnight plane to Georgia – the 00:40 flight from Bucharest to Tbilisi – provides a glimpse at the problems facing...
Revenues in the Georgian tourism sector reached 3.05 billion US dollars between January and November, 1.1 per cent (35.4 million US dollars) more than during the first...
Wizz Air, emerging Europe’s largest low cost airline, has signed a preliminary agreement with Abu Dhabi Development Holding Company (ADDH) to form a local carrier...
Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia have jointly opened the Multinational Special Aviation Programme at a ceremony in Zadar, north-western Croatia. The training...