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Research Claims Americans Plan to Visit Europe Despite Ukraine Conflict

2022-05-25 by Phil Butler

Ukraine conflict

MMGY Travel Intelligence says most Americans intend to follow through with their travels despite the war in Ukraine.

Tags: American opinions, American tourists, American travelers, American visits, MMGY, travel intelligence, Ukraine, Ukraine conflict, Ukraine war

Crimea’s Scythian Treasures Become Political Football

2016-12-14 by Phil Butler

Scythian gold

News that a Dutch court has decided to turn over Crimea’s Scythian gold collection to Ukraine has many outraged. The fate of a vast treasure awaits a court appeal by Crimean officials.

Tags: Allard Pierson Museum, Crimea, Crimea's Scythian gold, Euromaidan, Kiev, Royal Scythians, Sarmatians, Scythian gold, Scythians, Ukraine

Odessa Welcomes MedCruise General Assembly

2016-04-20 by Delia Gavrilescu

48th MedCruise General Assembly

More than 100 participants are expected at Odessa during the 48th MedCruise General Assembly at Hotel Bristol, a round table meeting dedicated to cruise and yacht tourism.

Tags: Black Sea, cruises, MedCruise, Odessa, Ukraine, Ukraine travel

To have, or have not & Russian Tourists in 2015

2015-03-09 by Phil Butler

When Russia’s influence on the Ukraine government of Viktor Yanukovych got challenged by a kind of rampaging western hegemony, all Europe should have studied more closely these relationships. Now, over a year in, the 2015 summer tourist season will probably be a disaster. Regardless of who we lay the blame on for the current west-east detente disaster, […]

Tags: Crete hotels, Cyprus travel, Europe hotels, European commission, Greece tourism, hotel revenue, NATO, rouble, Russia sanctions, sanctions, Ukraine

A Look at Crimea and Ukraine in a European Time Capsule

2014-09-01 by Liliana Steffens

Islam invades Spain

To better understand eastern Europe, one has to understand how the whole continent of Europe developed over the centuries. As the world watches events in Crimea and Ukraine develop today, it’s important that we understand the nature of conflict and society, and of borders.

Tags: conquest, Crimea, East Europe, Europe, poland, Rus, Russia, Ukraine

Bulgaria’s 2014 Tourism Boom: Help Wanted

2014-06-02 by Liliana Steffens

Balchik Botanical garden

With the summer season in full swing now news from Bulgaria’s tourism industry tells of Black Sea resorts there in dire need of skilled workers to meet demand. According to the director of labor there, Dobrich Vasil Sivkov, there’s hundreds of vacancies in the industry.

Tags: Balchik, Bulgaria, Bulgaria jobs, Bulgaria tourism, Odessa tourists, Ukraine

Weight of Ukraine Unrest, Sanctions, Threaten EU Economies

2014-05-07 by Phil Butler

Jean Claude Juncker

The Ukraine unrest unfolding, US and NATO versus Russia challenges and sanctions, threaten to unravel any hope of continued EU economic recovery. This, according to an ITAR-TASS report, must be weighed against European Commission contentions. Whatever the case for western EU nations, tourism and other sectors in eastern Europe will certainly be stifled.

Tags: banks, EU, EU elections, European commission, IMF, ITAR-TASS, Jean Claude Juncker, Luxembourg, NATO, Russia, Russia sanctions, Siim Kallas, Ukraine, Ukraine unrest

Germany’s Steinmeier Warns of War in Ukraine

2014-05-06 by Liliana Steffens

Steinmeier

The situation in Ukraine has the world on pins and needles as chaos prevails almost nationwide there. Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has gone so far as to warn that the crisis may turn into war in eastern Europe.

Tags: Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany politics, Kiev, Odessa, travel warnings, Ukraine, Ukraine unrest

Bad News For Croatia Tourism: Dead Last Economics

2014-05-06 by Liliana Steffens

Croatia

In Croatia, not many people or officials could have predicted finally achieving EU member status would find the country worse off. This Reuters report shows the ugly side of today’s European Union economics, Croatia and other states wallowing at the bottom of the coalition’s heap.

Tags: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia tourism, Kosovo, macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, slovenia, Ukraine

Russia’s Foreign Ministry Issues Travel Warning

2014-04-29 by Liliana Steffens

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

A spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry has cautioned Russians intent on traveling abroad about possible detentions. While Alexander Lukashevich issued a statement earlier in the week about how to avoid problems with US law enforcement agencies when traveling.

Tags: Alexander Lukashevich, Russia travel, travel bans, travel warnings, Ukraine, US travel

Moldova Gets Visa Free Status: NATO Gets Ally?

2014-04-28 by Phil Butler

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius with Moldova's Iurie Leancă

The European Commission has granted Moldovan citizens no visas travel to the EU beginning on today. In a move the EU says will deepen the relationship with East European nation in “defiance of Russia”, Moldova would seem to be a pawn in a much larger NATO game. In this report from Reuters, it’s made clear Moldova, […]

Tags: Containment Theory, Moldova, Moldova economy, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, visas

Croatia Set to Welcome More Russian Tourists

2014-04-24 by Liliana Steffens

Croatian Tourism Minister Darko Lorencin

Darko Lorencin, the Croatian Tourism Minister revealed this week Croatia is set to welcome more Russian tourists for 2014. Last year’s visa regime caused a drop in visitors from Russia of some 60%, a catastrophic drop for a country so dependent on tourism. This year Croatia intends to issue Russians visas for six months, the minister told RTL TV.

Tags: Croatia, Croatia tourism, Croatia travel, Croatia visits, Darko Lorencin, Russia tourists, tourism 2014, Ukraine

A New Cold War Nightmare: The Big Tourism Slump to Come

2014-04-21 by Phil Butler

Russia tourism report

Already the conflict between west and east over Ukraine is having its negative effect on travel. 2014 was shaping up as a very positive year for Europe travel, but with fewer Russians planning trips abroad, the upcoming May holidays will be the first tourism casualties of a new Cold War detentes. A just now emerging travel industry, can ill afford a slippage of bookings.

Tags: CIS, Cold War, Europe travel, Putin, Russia, Russia tourists, Russia TV, Russian bookings, Sights of Athens, Ukraine, WTM

Albania: A Look at Peripheral #Ukraine Effects

2014-03-08 by Phil Butler

Edi Rama

The crisis in Ukraine now threatens western Balkans nations like Albania with further stalled economies and more. Even despite the recent announcement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Urban Development and Tourism of Albania to commit to working together to promote tourism in Albania, the gridlocked detentes in between the US, EU, Britain, and Russia over Ukraine may well spell disaster for all Balkan’s travel.

Tags: Albania growth, Albania Tourism, Albania Travel, Balkans, Edi Rama, EU, Europe crisis, Obama, Putin, Russia, Ukraine

Koktebel & Maximilian Voloshin House & 2013’s Night at the Museum

2013-05-15 by Delia Gavrilescu

Book signing at the museum

This Saturday evening in Koktebel the Museum of Maximilian Voloshin will host an international event, “Night at the Museum”, which will commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the poet’s house. Each year in this part of the Crimea, museums all celebrate International Museum Day, a festive program with readings, exhibits and special programs for visitors.

Tags: Koktobel, museums, Ukraine, Ukraine events, Ukraine poets, Ukraine travel

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