From 12 October, Member States will start introducing Europe’s new digital border system, the Entry/Exit System (EES), across their external borders. As of this date, Member States will start electronically registering the data of non-EU nationals crossing the EU’s external borders for short stays (90 days in any 180-day period). They will do so progressively, […]
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EU tourism nights up by 2.3% in first half of 2025
In the first half of 2025, there were 1 279 million overnight stays in tourist accommodations across the EU, a 2.3% increase compared with the first 6 months of 2024 (1 249 million). At country level, Malta (12.7%), Latvia (8.6%) and Poland (8.5%) had the highest increases in the share of overnight stays in tourism accommodation in the […]
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Code of Conduct for the reliability of online reviews of tourist accommodation approved
On 1 September, various stakeholders in the EU tourism ecosystem took an important step towards ensuring that online reviews and ratings of hotels and other types of tourist accommodation are reliable, by approving the “Code of Conduct for Online Reviews and Ratings for Tourist Accommodation”. The new Code aims to achieve greater transparency and reliability […]
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