While Austrian Government is still struggling with a smoking ban in restaurants, the chairman of the Hotel Association on Wednesday hurried ahead with the proposal to introduce a general smoking ban in all Austrian hotels. The idea was immediately citisized by the tourism section of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, not only representing hoteliers but […]
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According to the EU Press Room, “The European Commission has released a comprehensive compilation of existing studies on external costs in the transport sector. This handbook, jointly prepared by several transport research institutes, summarises the state of the art as regards the valuation of external costs. The Commission intends to make use of the handbook
As stated by the EU Press Room, “Today, the European Commission has adopted an agenda for general and business aviation in Europe. For the first time since the creation of the EU internal aviation market, the Commission has studied this sector, quantified its value and identified the challenges that it is facing. The Commission now
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As reported by Ed Perkins, at the Chicago Tribune, “The law requiring surviving airlines to carry travelers with tickets on any failed line expired and Congress did not extend it. If you hold a ticket on a line that fails, you can usually get your money back. But other airlines are no longer required to
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According to iafrica.com, “Rwandan companies using the country’s famous mountain gorillas’ image for marketing purposes will have to pay a tax aimed at financing the endangered species protection, officials announced this week.’We are launching this campaign to generate income earmarked for the species’ protection,’ said Fidele Ruzigandekwe, in charge of conservation at the Rwandan Office
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As reported by Hemendra Singh Bartwal, of the Hindustan Times, “Rising Incidents of crimes against foreign tourists has pushed the Tourism Ministry to send a communication to all states asking them to speed up the process of creating a special tourist police force.The urgency was highlighted by an incident in Mumbai earlier this week where
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As reported by Colin Brown, at The Independent, “Airlines should be forced by a change in the law to provide two inches more leg room on board passenger jets, a cross-party committee of peers said in a report on air travel.The Lords committee on science and technology accused the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of ignoring
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As stated by the EU Press Room, “Today, the European Commission adopted a regulation allowing air passengers arriving from Singapore and transferring at an EU airport to take duty-free liquids on-board their connecting flights. When changing planes in the EU, these passengers will no longer be obliged to abandon liquids bought at Singapore airport and
Organized by IBCDTur – the Brazilian Institute of Tourism Sciences and Law, next week in Piracicaba SP, will take place the 5th Editur and the 1st Ibero-American Seminar of Tourism Law that will deal with the “Propedeutics and Tourism Law: epistemological foundations”. Sponsored by the Brazilian Ministry of Tourism, this event counts with the participation
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now collecting additional fingerprints from international visitors arriving at Washington Dulles International Airport (Dulles). The change is part of the department’s upgrade from two- to 10-fingerprint collection in order to enhance security and fingerprint matching accuracy.Department of State (DOS) consular officers and DHS Customs and Border Protection
