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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...

Mike Horn becomes first man to cross Antarctic solo

Mike Horn, the explorer with strong links to Monaco, has succeeded in his solo Antarctic crossing. He achieved this remarkable feat in 57 days, travelling 5,100 kilometres. He passed the South Pole...

Tourism picks up in France

Tourist numbers in France rebounded in the last quarter of 2016, exceeding the number of visitors in the autumn of 2014, before the terror attacks of 2015 and 2016. Nights spent in hotels and at...