The first in a new series of pieces from our correspondents throughout Central and Eastern Europe taking a tongue-in-cheek look at life in the region. I have trouble...
Tag - Travel & Tourism
This year has been declared the Year of Rail by the European Commission in order to highlight train travel as one of the most “sustainable, smart and safe means of...
Romania’s Transfăgărășan Highway is one of the most celebrated roads in Europe. Open for just a few months each year, it attracts tens of thousands of visitors...
It takes five and half hours to cross Hungary’s border with Serbia. Why? I never intended to go to Switzerland again by bus. Once, twelve years ago, when I was but...
Open borders in the Western Balkans need infrastructure that allows everyone – tourists, citizens and businesses – to make the most of them. The subject of borders in...
A walk around the superb medieval city of Kotor in Montenegro suggests it’s business-as-usual for the country’s lucrative tourism sector. But for how long? ...
Remote working – already a trend long before the Covid-19 pandemic – is here to stay. The number of people eschewing the office in favour of working from...
The Baltic Sea may not be as warm as the Med or the Aegean – to say the very least – but the thousands of beaches in the region are amongst the widest...
Belgrade is a city of many impressive landmarks. From the classical grandeur of the Victor Monument overlooking Great War Island to the bold, brutalist, and strange...
While a new wave of Covid-19 could hamper the economic recovery across Central and Eastern Europe, societies and economies in the region are now more resilient, having...
Bulgaria is hoping that an initiative offering free holidays to schoolchildren will relaunch its tourism industry. But for the sector to fully recover, foreign tourists...
With more than half of its population now vaccinated with at least one dose of a Covid-19 jab, Hungary says the time has come to switch responsibility from the state to...
