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Swiss Re estimates Hurricane Ida claims at $750 million, Europe flooding at $520 million
By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss Re has estimated its preliminary claims burden from Hurricane Ida at $750 million, the reinsurer said on Tuesday, while updating its loss estimate...
Thirteen (13) industry personnel received their certificates of completion last Friday following their participation in a basic on-site tour guide training course; a collaborative effort between the Ministry of Tourism and Investment and Professional Approach Consultancy.
The training course which was conducted in July comprised of participants representing different departments within the Ministry of Tourism alongside representatives of other stakeholder groups. The course was designed to provide the participants...
Statement by the Hon. Gaston Browne at Special Session of the Permanent Council of the OAS
Statement by the Honourable Gaston BrownePrime Minister of Antigua and Barbudaand Chair of the CARICOM Heads of Governmentat a Special Session of the Permanent Councilof the Organization of American...
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G7 finance ministers make some progress on tax deal, UK says
Finance ministers from the Group of Seven said they made some progress on Wednesday at reaching a joint position on a landmark global corporate tax deal, days before it needs to win over a wider...
Facebook says root cause of outage was faulty configuration change
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc on Monday cited faulty configuration changes on its routers as the root cause of the nearly six-hour outage that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its...
Global Tourism Sees Upturn in Q3 but Recovery Remains Fragile
After a weak first half of 2021, international tourism rebounded during the Northern Hemisphere summer season, boosting results for the third quarter of the year, especially in Europe. ...
UK PM Johnson marries in low-key, surprise ceremony
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his fiancee Carrie Symonds at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday, capping a week of political drama with a wedding kept so under wraps...
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Britain strikes tax deal with oil refiner Essar as fuel panic persists
Britain threw refiner Essar Oil UK a lifeline on Tuesday with a phased tax payment deal, allowing it to keep producing just as the country struggles with motorists draining petrol stations in a...
’30 years of blah blah blah’: Thunberg questions Italy climate talks
Greta Thunberg and fellow youth campaigners struck a sceptical tone for this week's climate talks in Italy, saying much has been promised but little done to tackle global warming in almost three decades since the landmark Earth Summit. Fears that...
Analytics firm Amplitude valued at $5 billion as shares jump in Nasdaq debut
Shares of Amplitude Inc opened nearly 43% above their reference price in Nasdaq debut on Tuesday, notching up a valuation of about $5 billion for the Benchmark Capital-backed analytics...
Factbox-Germany’s election in polls, facts and figures
Germany's election produced a narrow win for the Social Democrats over Angela Merkel's conservatives, projections show, but exit polls conducted for broadcasters on Sunday suggested voters had...
Switzerland votes to make same-sex marriage legal by near two-thirds majority
Switzerland agreed to legalise civil marriage and the right to adopt children for same-sex couples by a nearly two-thirds majority in a referendum on Sunday, making it one of the last countries in...
Canadian court discharges Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou as U.S. extradition case ends
A Canadian judge on Friday signed Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou's order of discharge, vacating her bail conditions and allowing her to go free after nearly three years of house arrest as her U.S. extradition case ends. Canadian...
German millionaires rush assets to Switzerland ahead of election
A potential lurch to the left in Germany's election on Sunday is scaring millionaires into moving assets into Switzerland, bankers and tax lawyers say. If the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD),...
The former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, has been arrested in Italy. The leader of the Catalan independence movement is in prison in Sassari (Sardinia). Judges will decide whether or not to extradite him
"The hearing to validate the arrest could be set late today or tomorrow morning, depending on when the documents that the judges and I should consult arrive," said Agostinangelo Marras, the lawyer...
UNWTO Secretary-General: ‘The climate emergency is a bigger threat than Covid’
The head of the United Nations World Tourism Organization has warned that the “climate emergency is a bigger threat than Covid”.The head of the…
Tourism unites behind the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action at COP26
The ‘Glasgow Declaration for Climate Action in Tourism’ was launched today at the UN Climate Change Conference COP26. Some of tourism’s biggest…
Global Tourism Sees Upturn in Q3 but Recovery Remains Fragile
After a weak first half of 2021, international tourism rebounded during the Northern Hemisphere summer season, boosting results for the third quarter of the year, especially in Europe. According to the newest edition of the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer,...
The First World Sports Tourism Congress: the Role of Sport for Tourism Recovery and its Contribution to the 2030 Agenda
Renowned experts and academics in sports tourism debated over two days on current and future trends in the sector and underlined the key role of sport for the development of a more sustainable and inclusive tourism. The first edition of the World Sports Tourism...
New COVID-19 Surges Keep Travel Restrictions in Place
One out of five destinations continue to have their borders completely closed as new surges of COVID-19 impact the restart of international tourism. The latest research shows that still 98% of all destinations have some kind of travel restrictions in place. According...
UNWTO and CAF Boost Sustainable and Innovative Tourism in Latin America
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and CAF, the Development Bank of Latin America, have signed an MOU to strengthen their collaboration to accelerate tourism development through investments. Data suggests that global foreign direct investments (FDI) into tourism...
Spain to Become Centre of World Tourism for Three Days
More than 500 delegates from around the world, including Ministers of Tourism of UNWTO Member States, international organizations, as well as leaders from the private sector and civil society, will participate in the meeting of the supreme governing body...
UNWTO and the Council of Europe to Promote Cultural Routes
United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the Council of Europe will work together to develop the opportunities tourism offers to local communities and to enhance the tourist experience along the European region’s Cultural Routes. The joint actions will be...
Thirteen (13) industry personnel received their certificates of completion last Friday following their participation in a basic on-site tour guide training course; a collaborative effort between the Ministry of Tourism and Investment and Professional Approach Consultancy.
The training course which was conducted in July comprised of participants representing different departments within the Ministry of Tourism alongside representatives of other stakeholder groups. The course was designed to provide the participants with the knowledge,...
WestJet is now back in Antigua and Barbuda, providing Canadian travellers with another means of escaping the cold winter and finding themselves in the sunny twin-island paradise
On Sunday, the Canadian airline resumed service to Antigua and Barbuda, for the first time following over a year’s absence. A symbolic water canon salute showered the WestJet aircraft on touchdown at the V.C. Bird International Airport. Minister of Tourism and...
