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Monaco set to spend big on rail to ease its busiest commuter corridor
Monaco is investing €67.9 million in four new TER trains — with the goal of running a service every 10 minutes between Nice and Monaco at peak hours, carrying 20,000 passengers daily – up from around 12,000 today.
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“See and be seen” at Metropole, hotel ranks Top Ten worldwide
Flight Network, the US-based travel company, has chosen Hotel Metropole Monte-Carlo as one of the top ten luxury hotels worldwide. Located in the Golden Square of the Principality of Monaco, Hotel...
Italian, French strikes threaten commute
A strike by Italian rail workers will result in no trains running between Ventimiglia and Menton on Wednesday, March 8, from about 8:50 am until 5:37 pm. Since the stoppage is not due to start until...
18 new destinations from Nice Airport
Both Ryanair and British Airways have added London Stansted as a destination from Nice-Côte d’Azur Airport from March 26. The route is already served by easyJet. Seventeen other routes have been...
Multiple strikes hit air travel
Strikes will hit European air travellers hard from Monday, as French air traffic controllers start their first grève of the year. British Airways has cancelled at least 40 flights on Monday, plus a...
Tourists look further east, Monaco’s GoFast reports
Monaco’s Tourism Office reports in its GoFast newsletter of major tourism news that the number of tourist overnight stays in the European Union were slightly up, by two percent, in 2016. A Eurostat...
France’s tourism rebounds
“Between 82.5 and 83 million foreign tourists visited France in 2016,” Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on February 10. This is down from the record of 85 million recorded in 2015, but...
