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An Icelandic adventure tourism company offers trips combining sailing and running in Greenland and Iceland.

Rising costs including labour, fuel and infrastructure are biting into margins right across the board, IATA says, with European airlines suffering too.

Hard Rock has set an opening date of October for the world’s first guitar-shaped hotel, which will be part of its Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.

The scuba diving craze has become big business, helping small coastal communities in countries like the Philippines and Indonesia.

Revenue levels at many of Europe's hotels are in decline, and Stockholm is experiencing the same trend.

The technology provider Cvent has unveiled its lists of top meeting hotels in the US, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific for 2019, and Copenhagen has made the list in Europe.

With an emphasis on celebrating the local cultural heritage, Hotel Pacai in the Lithuanian capital attracted 25,000 guests in its first year.

After offering flights between Stockholm and Shanghai during summer 2018 and then suspending the service, the airline will now also operate the route in winter.

With Banksy and dinosaur exhibits as well as a new hotel, summer 2019 is filled with news for the Swedish city and its visitors.

An interactive history museum is to be built near Turku's medieval castle by 2029, and the city says it will be a "museum of the future."

As in the capital Copenhagen, the hotel and venue boom of 2018 is continuing across Denmark into 2019 and beyond, and there is no sign of it slowing down.

Flybe chief executive Christine Ourmieres-Widener will step down from her position on July 15.

Passengers at Stansted Airport experienced the longest delays compared to 24 other airports in the country, according to new analysis.

KLM has announced a commitment with partners to produce and purchase sustainable aviation fuel manufactured at a new plant in Europe.

Though responsible agencies claim tourists are still welcome in the Netherlands, the country's most popular city would rather cut the numbers instead of plot future increases.

The first charter flight from Seoul, Korea to Riga, Latvia arrived on Friday carrying a group that will travel around the Baltic countries.

The Danish hotel and venue boom of 2018 is continuing into 2019 and beyond, and there is no sign of it slowing down.

Consumer group Which? is warning that travellers should be wary of the crafty sales tactics of hotel booking websites.

Hotel giant InterContinental group has announced the promotion of Joanna Kurowska to director of operations for luxury and managed hotels in Northern Europe.

An Italian manufacturer has won a contract to produce seats for new A320 aircraft across the group's airlines.