Eastern and Central Europe

Wizz Air had a rather good year in 2023. Passenger traffic for the Hungarian-born airline reached more than 60 million passengers in the fiscal year. And this trend is set to continue, with average aircraft load factors expected to reach 90% for the current year. Wizz Air has made a speciality...

With Covid out of the picture, the MICE business in Prague picked up again in 2023. The reopening of air services to the United States, Asia and the Middle East have contributed in particular to the good attendance of conferences and major international congresses, with the Czech capital also benefiting from the good performance of its main markets. In other words, Germany, the United States and...

With its selective development strategy, the opening of a Sofitel Legend is almost as rare as a leap year. The last - and sixth to date - took place early last year in the historic heart of Panama City, reinventing a building with colonial architecture into a glamorous and elegant place to live. The...

For over fifteen years now, the Radisson Blu brand has enjoyed a strategic location in Marseille, on the emblematic Vieux Port. Next door to two local institutions, the Bar de la Marine and the Théâtre de la Criée, this top-of-the-range establishment, which has been awarded the Clef Verte label, embarked last October on a complete renovation of the entire...

It's rather surprising for one of the world's leading hotel groups, but IHG has not had a presence in one of Northern Europe's major markets, Sweden, for some time. A temporary incongruity, since the British group will be making its comeback at the end of 2024 with the opening of the Voco Stockholm Kista. A top-of-the-range...

The next two Aviation-Event conferences will be held on 15 March in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, followed by Chisinau, Moldova, on 30 May. The first will focus on the environment and, above all, the integration of AI into airport services. The second will focus on Moldova as an aviation market and the future of aviation in the Balkans...

On 31 March, Bulgaria and Romania will finally join the Schengen area, after years of negotiations. For travellers, this decision will mean the abolition of border controls, which are still in place for the time being. However, the inclusion of the two Balkan states in the Schengen area is not complete. Austria and the...

After Miami, Stuttgart is the second city in the world to see a Porsche tower rise into the sky. A logical privilege for the birthplace of these top-of-the-range cars. Located in the north of the city, in Pragsattel, and linked to the business district of the Baden-Württemberg metropolis by numerous...

France is well and truly back on the road to business travel. The latest GBTA study bears this out: according to the GBTA Business Travel Index Outlook report, by the end of the year the French market should have recovered 96% of business travel expenditure compared with 2019, the reference year. The...

Deprived for two years of its key asset for hosting events, Belgrade was ranked 70th in the latest ICCA rankings. Serbia was ranked 70th in the country rankings. But a new dynamic should soon give the destination a boost, and enable it to regain market share in the international...