Spanish Tourist Office in the UK announced the appointment of José Manuel de Juan González as the new Director and Isabel Alonso Piñar as the new Deputy Director in London, who take over from Manuel Butler and Pedro Medina respectively. González joins the London office following a distinguished career with Turespaña. He has previously headed Turespaña’s overseas offices in New York...

Germany as a tourist destination continues to show positive growth in international tourism: at the start of the peak holiday season in July, the number of overnight stays by foreign visitors in Germany increased by 3.2% year-on-year to 10.8 million, according to provisional figures from the Federal Statistical Office, against a backdrop of market volatility...

StayVista has announced the addition of former India Test captain Ajinkya Rahane’s RAAYA Estate to its portfolio, with the property set to be available on the platform from September 11, 2026. Nestled amid the rolling hills of Igatpuri, the five-bedroom private retreat joins Vieda, StayVista’s uber-luxury collection featuring some of India’s most distinctive private villas and holiday homes...

Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority (MTPA) deepens its engagement with India through a four-city initiative across Pune, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad, its third marketing operation in the country since January 2026, reaffirming the country’s importance as a key tourism market and strengthening the longstanding cultural and people-to-people ties between Mauritius and India.

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) warns that plans to give mayors in England the power to impose uncapped overnight visitor levies risk making the UK less competitive as a global destination, with higher costs threatening to divert visitors, spending, and future investment to competing markets...

Visa and the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) announced their intent to explore collaboration aimed at enhancing tourism discovery and digital commerce experiences in India at the Global Fintech Festival, 2026. The proposed collaboration seeks to bring together Visa’s expertise in trusted digital commerce and intelligent discovery experiences with ONDC’s open network infrastructure...

SITA has unveiled Border Flow Lane, a new border processing solution designed to shift airport immigration from a traditional, reactive ‘stop-and-check’ model to a proactive, data-driven experience. The solution aims to resolve one of the aviation industry’s most pressing challenges, managing fluctuating traveller demand without the need for extensive and expensive infrastructure expansion...

Yousuf Khalaf Al Mujaizi, Assistant Director of Business Development, Tourism Promotion Directorate, Ministry of Heritage and Tourism, Oman, said resilience comes from having a destination proposition that is genuine, differentiated and built for the long term.

Malaysia Airlines is deepening its tourism partnerships across Asia-Pacific, reinforcing its role as a catalyst for connectivity and tourism growth. Through partnerships with tourism boards and destination marketing organisations across Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia, the airline will support joint marketing and...

For decades, India’s international tourism ambition has been framed around a deceptively simple question: How many foreign tourists can the country attract? And if India has everything the world says it wants from a destination, why isn’t the world coming in greater numbers?