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Category - Spain travel news
Brits could spend over £10 billion if Spain introduces Vaccine Passport scheme
If restrictions allow vaccinated holidaymakers to visit Spain, Brits could spend more than £10,882,093,347 in the country this year - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online
Majorca wants European tourists to return
Mallorca is Spains most important travel destinations for many European visitors. The region remains cautious and explains to an audience attending the virtual ITB trade show. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online
How the UN wants the World to reopen for tourism?
Tourism remains in lockdown, at least in 30% of all known tourism destinations. The UNWTO wants travel relaunched in a safe and responsible way - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online
Wine Taxation Without Representation from Tourism or Tourists
A tariff on wine was imposed on imports from several European countries by former President Trump which is affecting the bottom line for tourism and travel-related industries. Continue reading Wine Taxation Without Representation from Tourism or Tourists at eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online.
Spain Tourism getting ready to welcome Chinese outbound travelers
The Spain Tourism Ministry is the first European tourism authority to facilitate a recovery program that caters to Chinese outbound travelers. Continue reading Spain Tourism getting ready to welcome Chinese outbound travelers at eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online.
Spain sets half-century anti-record for the number of tourists in 2020
Foreign tourism to Spain plunged in 2020 due to global COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions enacted by world's governments Continue reading Spain sets half-century anti-record for the number of tourists in 2020 at eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online.
Mask optional: New trend in Spain and for UNWTO?
Only the Egyptian minister of tourism actually traveled Madrid to attend the 113th Executive Council and voted for Zurab Pololikashvili at the Secretary General Election. The rest of the delegates were embassy officials. Wearing a mask as mandated by Spanish law was not important, not even for the high level participant from Spain. Diplomatic immunity is setting a new trend and a possible super-spreader for this UNWTO event. Continue reading Mask optional: New trend in Spain and for UNWTO? at...
Qatar participates in 113th Session of the Executive Council of UNWTO
Qatar was represented at the UNWTO session by Qatar's ambassador to Spain Abdullah bin Ibrahim al-Hamar Continue reading Qatar participates in 113th Session of the Executive Council of UNWTO at eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online.
3 people killed, 6 wounded in huge Madrid explosion
The site of the explosion is not far from Puerta de Toledo, one of the city’s gates and a popular tourist attraction Continue reading 3 people killed, 6 wounded in huge Madrid explosion at eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online.
The UNWTO Election just killed any decency left in the UN System
The UNWTO Executive Council extended the mandate for UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Zurab Pololikashvil until the end of 2025. This is a sad day, and not an evaluation of Mr. Zurab's qualifications or activities. Continue reading The UNWTO Election just killed any decency left in the UN System at eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online.
UNWTO is deaf when it comes to WTTC and the private travel sector
The controversial dinner last night to bribe for Zurab Pololikashvili re-election for UNWTO Secretary General has raised eyebrows all over the world. It’s not clear who ended up attending the dinner, but it is clear WTTC was not invited. The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has long been regarded as the voice for the big private sector. Continue reading UNWTO is deaf when it comes to WTTC and the private travel sector at eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online.
UNWTO disrespect against Bahrain is a violation of JIU Ethic Conditions
Food and wine in politics always had an important role. But violating clear rules by the Joint Inspection Unit of the United Nations in a UNWTO Election dinner is shameful by andy standards. Any country attending the Monday night dinner should be guilty in this conspiracy. Continue reading UNWTO disrespect against Bahrain is a violation of JIU Ethic Conditions at eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online.
Latin America: Spectator or actor in international organizations?
The unjustified advance of the date and the impossibility for many Ministers of Tourism to travel to Madrid, transfers the representation of the member states to their ambassadors in the election of the next Secretary General for the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). With UNWTO headquartered in Madrid, Spain, this favors the current Secretary General, since not all countries have a resident ambassador in Spain, so those that are already in Spain start the voting with an unfair heavy lead...
UNWTO set to bribe 34 Countries over Dinner, Georgia Style
In a top-secret move by the World Tourism Organization, a dinner designed to bribe 34 countries was just added to the official UNWTO Election program yesterday. Spanish celebrity chef Dani García will prepare the bribery dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel in Madrid on Monday paid for by the Foreign Minister of Georgia in an attack against Bahrain. Continue reading UNWTO set to bribe 34 Countries over Dinner, Georgia Style at eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online.
UNWTO election of Secretary General
The campaign for the UNWTO election of Secretary General (World Tourism Organization) is currently underway. Unfortunately, discussions linked to controversial procedures that could favor one of the candidates, especially if their aim is to reach a vote as soon as possible notwithstanding the unusual criticism of their predecessors in office over the last twenty years, have been overshadowed by the concrete proposals that differentiate the two candidates, which have not always received due...
Italy and the election of UNWTO Secretary General
On January 19, 2021, the Executive Council of the UNWTO (World Tourism Organization) should appoint the next UNWTO Secretary General, an appointment that will have to be ratified in October by the General Assembly of the member countries. In Italy, this deadline has not aroused much interest as often happens with the events of the United Nations to whose system UNWTO belongs. Continue reading Italy and the election of UNWTO Secretary General at eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online.
Spain snowstorm: Extraordinary acts of ordinary people
Spain is suffering the effects of a major snowstorm by the name of Filomena, bringing record-breaking low temperatures and mountains of snow. And the worst day is yet to come say meterologists. Through it all, it is the efforts of ordinary people that are getting the country through this winter calamity. Continue reading Spain snowstorm: Extraordinary acts of ordinary people at eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online.
She is Winning the 2021 UNWTO Secretary-General Election
Snowstorms in Madrid, COVID-19 lockdowns in Spain, the “Decency of the UNWTO Election Campaign” by the World Tourism Network signed by two former UNWTO Secretary Generals and hundreds of tourism leaders from more than 100 countries, the fact that some of the voting Ministers of Tourism had already tested positive for COVID-19 – none of this moved the current UNWTO Secretary General Zurab Pololikashvili to reconsider allowing a delay in the upcoming election meeting set to take place in just a...
Filomena dumps heaviest snowfall in Madrid since 1971
Spain has been hit by Filomena with so far 30 hours of snowfall and is the most intense snowstorm in the last 50 years. The city of Madrid is one of the worst-affected areas. The storm was announced days ago with international weather forecasts warning of a kind of snow bomb going down on Madrid and Central Spain, but it arrived even worse than forecasted. Continue reading Filomena dumps heaviest snowfall in Madrid since 1971 at eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online.
Trump lost, but UNWTO election fraud by Georgia candidate may succeed
US President Donald Trump and UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili have something in common. The urge to stay in power no matter how. The master in manipulating elections is from Georgia, this is the country of Georgia Two former secretary generals, one assistant SG and one UNWTO Executive director started the "Decency in Election" campaign with the US based World Tourism Network The 35voting countries remain silent after positioned and UNWTO regional offices were promised in return for...