Covid-19 impacts entertainment industry
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UK, Italy remain most popular markets
Air-France-KLM warned Tuesday the coronavirus outbreak will hit its business harder in coming months after February passenger numbers fell 0.5% overall as flights to China were cut. The slowdown in February "essentially reflects the cancellation of all...
'Considerable number' of flights to and from Malta cancelled
Egypt’s Coptic monks have cared for fortress-like monasteries for centuries
Airline says passengers will not pay penalties if they rebook flights
Air Malta reports fall in demand since outbreak
Air Malta will be allowing travellers to change their travel dates and destination to ease some of the impact that coronavirus concerns are having on both the airline and its customers. Customers who booked an Air Malta flight on Go Light and Go Smart...
Britannia Services Ltd has inaugurated a new head office in Ħamrun, which will centralise all the main operations of the company. Managing director Noel Farrugia said that, in the 38 years since its inception, Britannia Services Ltd has evolved from a...
Affected customers will be advised of changes 14 days in advance
A diploma on climate friendly travel - the first of its kind globally - will start being offered in Gozo in September. The announcement was made by Institute of Tourism Studies Professor Glen Farrugia at a press conference on the Tourism Ministry's...
Consumers’ rights in case of package holiday or flight cancellations
Emirates has picked up ‘Best Airline in the World’ and ‘Best First Class’ at the prestigious 2019 ULTRAs. Voted by the readers of The Telegraph’s luxury travel magazines Ultratravel UK and Ultratravel Middle East, the awards are the industry hallmark...
Air traffic strike called off
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We remember the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Wall in Berlin and of the Iron Curtain in Europe. The Wall around West Berlin was 3.60 metres high and 160 kilometres long. Its appearance and location changed over the course of time: the barbed-wire...
Four people survived a month adrift in the Pacific by eating coconuts and drinking rainwater in an ordeal that claimed the lives of eight of their companions, including a baby, reports said Wednesday. The group, from Papua New Guinea's Bougainville...
Andreas Reuterswärd, winner of the Good Earth Peel and Win promotion, was presented with his grand prize – a travel voucher – by FCM Travel Solutions corporate manager Fleur Spiteri and Good Earth’s marketing manager Conrad Mifsud. Reuterswärd and his...
Bad weather has caused air travel havoc
Extra flight on Monday
Emirates, the world’s largest international airline, is offering Maltese travellers special fares to Dubai as well as a complimentary ticket to La Perle – a show that takes entertainment to a new level. Fares in Economy Class start from €549, Business...
The Institute for Tourism, Travel and Culture at the University of Malta has launched a mobile app allowing travellers to explore Unesco World Heritage Sites featured in films, TV and online series in an easy-to-use and fun way. The app guides...
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Many travellers are asking about cancellations and putting off China trips
Timeframes to be finalised at the end of 2020
Updated Foreign airlines began suspending flights to and from China on Wednesday as global fears mounted over a coronavirus epidemic that has killed 132 people and infected nearly 6,000. The announcements came hours after countries began airlifts to...
Despite their venerable age and hard labour, the vintage vehicles at the Moscow Transport Museum are in good condition, says Joseph Busuttil from the Old Motors Club. When the Knights of St John were expelled from Malta by Napoleon in 1798, many of...
Medical doctor Georgiana Farrugia Bonnici spent some time in India doing voluntary work at an orphanage. She shares her thoughts and feelings with the aim of encouraging others to follow suit. I always had this wish to do voluntary work around the...
A Hong Kong airline forced a Japanese woman to take a pregnancy test before allowing her on a flight to a Pacific island popular with mothers seeking US citizenship for their babies. Midori Nishida, 25, was escorted to a public toilet at Hong Kong...
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