Category: Aviation

Turkish airports hosted about 11.6 million passengers in April, up 88.1% from last year, the country’s air travel authority announced. Some 5.4 million passengers took domestic flights last month, with 6.2 million traveling on international flights, the State Airports Authority General Directorate (DHMI) said Sunday in a statement. The figure was 73% of the pre-virus […]

Malta will from Monday scrap its red and dark red travel lists, Health Minister Chris Fearne announced on Friday. Speaking in a comment to state broadcaster TVM, Fearne said that as from Monday travellers coming from any country will no longer require a period of quarantine. As things stood, those coming from a country on […]

Tourists spent €167 million while on holiday in first quarter of the year Malta received more than 235,000 tourists in the first three months of 2022, more than seven times as many as the same period last year, but still far off pre-pandemic levels. Tourists spent more than €167 million while on holiday in the […]

A flock of tourists from Europe, particularly Germany and Britain, two of the markets the Turkish tourism sector missed during the coronavirus pandemic, has provided encouragement for an industry worried about the potential impact of the war in Ukraine. Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine is expected to hit the arrivals from Turkey’s top tourist sources, just […]

Croatia has dropped all Covid-19 entry requirements, according to the destination’s tourist board. A statement from the Croatian National Tourist Office on Tuesday (May 3) said: “This is to inform you that from 1 May 2022, Croatia has dropped all Covid-19 entry requirements. “All travellers entering Croatia can now do so under the same conditions […]

Greece will remove its entry restrictions on May 1, following confusion over its the relaxation of its Covid rules. Earlier this month, health minister Thanos Plevris announced Covid protection measures would be suspended from May 1, which many understood to mean entry restrictions would be lifted. However, there was confusion in recent days after the […]

Turkey is seeing a significant rebound in its crucial industry as foreign arrivals continue to gain pace and income continues to surge, as traces of the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic continue to fade. Still, Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine is expected to impact the arrivals from Turkey’s top tourist sources, just as the sector continued […]