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Budapest Summer Festival Offers Complete Packages For Expats' Visitors
- 9 Jul 2015 9:02 AM
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First class tickets to performances at the Open-Air Theatre on Margaret Island, hotel room with breakfast, roundtrip boat transfer and Water Tower admission in one package with significant savings – this is on offer in Budapest Summer Festival’s Sleep in Budapest with a theatre ticket complete package. The Budapest Summer Festival offers 12 summer weekend getaways of exclusive cultural and ...
Video: New Luxury Rail Journey Between Budapest & Venice
- 2 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- travel
Golden Eagle Luxury Trains, a UK-based company, specializes in long-distance rail tours such as its flagship Trans-Siberian Express. They are known for their journeys that take passengers to places that are less explored and also more difficult to access for individual travelers. In the fall of 2014, a new era started when Golden Eagle launched its first rail journey between Budapest and Tehran. ...
Szováta: A Tiny Hungarian Resort Town Nestled In The Heart Of Transylvania
- 4 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- travel
I had the chance to visit Szováta, a primarily Hungarian-speaking resort town located in Romania’s Transylvania region, which is an admittedly off-the-beaten track destination for nearly any tourist who isn’t either ethnic Hungarian or Romanian. Most famous for the thermal salt water Bear Lake, or Lacul Ursu/Medve tó, and for its cliffs made of solid salt, the area around the town also has a ...
CEE Aviation Conference 2015, Budapest, 3 – 4 September
- 28 May 2015 9:00 AM
- travel
Press release: The first annual CEE aviation conference will cover the latest industry news and updates, current technologies and future trends of the aviation sector. We also aim to analyze airline and airport business development strategies in the CEE region, all while providing business networking opportunities for guests, sponsors, speakers and the media.
Taking place 3rd-4th September at ...
Budapest Airport Reports Record Traffic
- 15 May 2015 9:00 AM
- travel
Budapest Airport registered an annual 10.8% increase in traffic last month, with 840,486 passengers arriving and departing from the facility, an all-time high for the month of April. The rise in traffic was twice that of the EU average. In the first four months, passenger traffic increased 12.1% year-on-year, while airlines reported average seat occupancy of 78.8%.
Budapest-Beijing Air Link: Celebration Held In Chinese Capital
- 30 Apr 2015 1:35 AM
- travel
A large-scale celebration has been hosted by Air China and the Hungarian embassy in Beijing to mark the launch of the Chinese national carrier’s new flight to Budapest on 1 May. At the event, Hungary’s Ambassador to China Cecília Szilas said that while the question has been on the agenda for many years, the new air link is the result of dynamically developing relations between the two countries, ...
Former Ballet Institute In Budapest To Open As Hotel
- 20 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- travel
A 168-room, five-star hotel will be opened in the former Ballet Institute across from the Opera House on Andrássy út in December 2017, according to CEO Zaiki el Guiziri of project company QPR Properties. The Dreschler Palace building, which hosted the ballet institute during the Communist era, has been empty for nearly 20 years.
Budapest Hosts Central Europe-China Tourism Cooperation Conference
- 30 Mar 2015 1:00 AM
- travel
The representatives of ministries, agencies and companies in charge of tourism from 16 central and eastern European countries (CEE) met directly for the first time with Chinese tourism business officials at a conference of the industry in Budapest. The Hungarian capital is hosting the China-CEE tourism cooperation conference between March 25 and 27.
Xpat Recommendation: Great Weekend Break In Athens
- 28 Mar 2015 7:30 AM
- travel
Athens is still a really great place for a weekend break, for shopping, sight seeing, relaxing and more. Who hasn't heard of the marvelous Acropolis? Nominated as one of the 7 wonders of our modern world, you can see it from your room if you stay at the Hilton in Athens. The Holy Rock of Acropolis dates back to the 5th BC, today it's still well worth seeing. Athens itself has seen times of boom ...
Budapest Summer Festival Offers Complete Packages For Expats' Visitors
- 9 Jul 2015 9:02 AM
- travel
First class tickets to performances at the Open-Air Theatre on Margaret Island, hotel room with breakfast, roundtrip boat transfer and Water Tower admission in one package with significant savings – this is on offer in Budapest Summer Festival’s Sleep in Budapest with a theatre ticket complete package. The Budapest Summer Festival offers 12 summer weekend getaways of exclusive cultural and ...
Video: New Luxury Rail Journey Between Budapest & Venice
- 2 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- travel
Golden Eagle Luxury Trains, a UK-based company, specializes in long-distance rail tours such as its flagship Trans-Siberian Express. They are known for their journeys that take passengers to places that are less explored and also more difficult to access for individual travelers. In the fall of 2014, a new era started when Golden Eagle launched its first rail journey between Budapest and Tehran. ...
Szováta: A Tiny Hungarian Resort Town Nestled In The Heart Of Transylvania
- 4 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- travel
I had the chance to visit Szováta, a primarily Hungarian-speaking resort town located in Romania’s Transylvania region, which is an admittedly off-the-beaten track destination for nearly any tourist who isn’t either ethnic Hungarian or Romanian. Most famous for the thermal salt water Bear Lake, or Lacul Ursu/Medve tó, and for its cliffs made of solid salt, the area around the town also has a ...
CEE Aviation Conference 2015, Budapest, 3 – 4 September
- 28 May 2015 9:00 AM
- travel
Press release: The first annual CEE aviation conference will cover the latest industry news and updates, current technologies and future trends of the aviation sector. We also aim to analyze airline and airport business development strategies in the CEE region, all while providing business networking opportunities for guests, sponsors, speakers and the media.
Taking place 3rd-4th September at ...
Budapest Airport Reports Record Traffic
- 15 May 2015 9:00 AM
- travel
Budapest Airport registered an annual 10.8% increase in traffic last month, with 840,486 passengers arriving and departing from the facility, an all-time high for the month of April. The rise in traffic was twice that of the EU average. In the first four months, passenger traffic increased 12.1% year-on-year, while airlines reported average seat occupancy of 78.8%.
Budapest-Beijing Air Link: Celebration Held In Chinese Capital
- 30 Apr 2015 1:35 AM
- travel
A large-scale celebration has been hosted by Air China and the Hungarian embassy in Beijing to mark the launch of the Chinese national carrier’s new flight to Budapest on 1 May. At the event, Hungary’s Ambassador to China Cecília Szilas said that while the question has been on the agenda for many years, the new air link is the result of dynamically developing relations between the two countries, ...
Former Ballet Institute In Budapest To Open As Hotel
- 20 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- travel
A 168-room, five-star hotel will be opened in the former Ballet Institute across from the Opera House on Andrássy út in December 2017, according to CEO Zaiki el Guiziri of project company QPR Properties. The Dreschler Palace building, which hosted the ballet institute during the Communist era, has been empty for nearly 20 years.
Budapest Hosts Central Europe-China Tourism Cooperation Conference
- 30 Mar 2015 1:00 AM
- travel
The representatives of ministries, agencies and companies in charge of tourism from 16 central and eastern European countries (CEE) met directly for the first time with Chinese tourism business officials at a conference of the industry in Budapest. The Hungarian capital is hosting the China-CEE tourism cooperation conference between March 25 and 27.
Xpat Recommendation: Great Weekend Break In Athens
- 28 Mar 2015 7:30 AM
- travel
Athens is still a really great place for a weekend break, for shopping, sight seeing, relaxing and more. Who hasn't heard of the marvelous Acropolis? Nominated as one of the 7 wonders of our modern world, you can see it from your room if you stay at the Hilton in Athens. The Holy Rock of Acropolis dates back to the 5th BC, today it's still well worth seeing. Athens itself has seen times of boom ...