In a rather backward turn of events, many travellers planning to visit Puerto Rica this season are choosing to forego purchasing travel insurance – and this is less than two years since Hurricane Maria ripped across the island.
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International travel-related news all in one place – travel trends, traveller statistics, and worldwide issues affecting travel patterns.
10 June 2019
Israel recorded an impressive 440,000 international tourist arrivals in May this year, an 11.1-per-cent rise compared with May 2018 and a 26.8-per-cent rise compared with May 2017.
07 June 2019
The latest edition of the monthly Global Catastrophe Recap Report has been released by Aon Plc, and in it, the company evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide during May 2019.
07 June 2019
German airline Lufthansa has become the first airline in the world to equip all of its long-haul aircraft with CardioSecur, a mobile electrocardiogram (ECG) system.
05 June 2019
International SOS has issued some up-to-date advice for US hurricane season.
04 June 2019
According to the 19th Annual Holiday Barometer from Europ Assistance, despite the number of people planning to go away on holiday remaining more or less the same as previous years, some countries are actually decreasing their holiday budgets in 2019.
31 May 2019
As the number of people travelling by air increases exponentially, it is gratifying to note that, according to a new study from J.D. Power, passenger satisfaction levels are at record highs – at least in North America.
30 May 2019
Allianz reveals that younger generations are increasingly likely to take a trip lasting no longer than four nights (also known as a ‘micro-cation’).
29 May 2019
The public health service in one of Spain’s leading holiday regions billed some €51 million last year for treatments given mainly to visiting tourists, 16 per cent more than in 2017.
28 May 2019
The unprecedented number of deaths that have occurred atop Mount Everest this climbing season has drawn attention to a distressing problem with overcrowding, and bad management on the part of trekking companies.
24 May 2019
Having surveyed 200 UK travellers, Allianz Assistance reveals what UK holidaymakers most commonly consider to be their nightmare scenarios when it comes to planning a trip.
