More than 551,748 tourists visited Turkey for health-oriented services showing an increase of 27.3 per cent as compared to the last year as per the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) data. While the number of people visiting Turkey for the same purpose in the last 10 years recorded a total of 3.2 million. There has been significant investments in health tourism mainly in hospital and thermal facilities .Ankara Health Tourism Association (ASTUD) Chairman Fatih Somuncu stated that Turkey is ...
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American travelers are continuing to take to the skies in record numbers. According to the annual Airlines for America report, 48 percent of travelers in the United States flew on an airline in 2017 and a total of 88 percent of survey respondents have taken a commercial flight in their lifetime. In 2017, almost every age group and household income level reported taking more trips, especially the travelers earning $75,000-$99,999, who took an average of 5.1 trips in 2017, an increase from the ave...
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Technology company Travelport has signed a new multi-year content agreement with TAP Air Portugal that includes a commitment to deliver NDC standard connections. The news follows the recent announcement that the airline will launch the TAP Content Channel on 1 January 2020, which will allow agents and TMCs to access preferred content immediately. It will also enable the companies to develop NDC distribution capabilities....
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The life of travel influencers looks deluxe on Instagram and Facebook. Their feeds are full of seemingly-impromptu photo shoots in fall foliage or shots with their legs dangling off bungalows in the Maldives. And while we might know that a lot of work goes into these curated snapshots, what about the work that these influencers did before they were famous? How did they jet around the world, eating spaghetti Bolognese in the world’s oldest university town one day only to grab a drink at the...
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Searching for a cruise vessel that can get you off the beaten path? Our latest Cruise Ship Tour, in the carousel above, offers a deck-by-deck look at the 155-passenger Bremen, an icon of "expedition" cruising to far-flung places. Operated by Germany-based Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, Bremen is one of just two western cruise ships to have made a full transit of the Northeast Passage — the icy Arctic route from Europe to the Far East across the top of Russia. It's also one of the few c...
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Luxury cruise line Windstar Cruises has increased its daily Hotel Service Charge by $1.50 per person, per day bringing the total from $12 to $13.50. The new amount is effective as of January it also will apply to booked cruisers who prepaid gratuities for 2018 cruises. Windstar charges one standard daily amount for all passengers, including children. A 15-percent service charge is added to all bar bills. In a statement, Windstar said the new pricing is "more in line with the rest of the cru...
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