Category: Travel News

Sweden’s foreign tourist figures fail to impress

Dan Winther

Back in 2009, the Swedish tourism industry expected turnover from tourists to Sweden would double to 500 billion kronor ($74.4 billion) by 2020. However, lackluster spending by foreign tourists has forced the Swedish Travel and Tourism Industry (RTS) to lower their expectations to 451 billion. “It’s the foreign tourism that’s not growing at the speed we anticipated,” said Jan Lundin of the RTS to Dagens Industi newspaper (DI). “Swedish tourism continues to grow, however”. In fact, tourism in Sweden is continuing to grow as an overall trend, and experts insist…

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Don’t even think about renting a jetski ‎in Pattaya: Kip Keino

Dan Winther

I, for one, will be boycotting Pattaya and Phuket until jetskis are permanently unavailable for rent at those places. Perhaps there are some jetski renters who are not ripping off tourists, but the whole business is under a dark cloud and needs to be completely snuffed out. As a frequent visitor to Thailand since 1984, I advise other visitors to join in the boycott. There are better places to visit, which don’t have police in collusion with extortionists, fleecing tourists for tens of thousands of baht on a daily basis.…

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Dubai Furnished Apartments are now available on Booking.com

Dan Winther

  Dubai Furnished Apartments announces its partnership with Booking.com to enhance the bookings of Dubai hotel apartments/furnished apartments and hotel rooms. Through this partnership, Dubai Furnished Apartments will work with Booking.com to give an opportunity to the customers to explore and choose from thousand of furnished hotel apartments/hotel rooms for their short term rental in Dubai, UAE. This partnership will especially help the tourists to get the complete arrangement of their accommodation in Dubai. This deal will support and address new opportunities to the customers to get a cost effective…

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