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Passenger numbers at Liszt Ferenc International reached 538,074 in July, double the number measured in June and close to the total number in the first half of this year, operator Budapest Airport said on Wednesday.

Russia's Ural Airlines will launch a direct flight between Yekaterinburg and Budapest on September 5, the carrier said on Tuesday.

Domestic tourism has been properly restored since the stoppage caused by coronavirus, while the return of international visitors to Hungary is slowly under way, the head of the Hungarian Tourism Agency said on Sunday.

“Why did you come to Istanbul if you don’t want to buy a carpet?” Several carpet-shop touts had already approached me in the streets to invite me to see their wares in my few days in Istanbul but I politely declined, even avoiding gritting ...

Can there be many finer views from a hotel’s front rooms than the immense eye-popping panorama deep down into the immaculately laid-out valley that spreads out for kilometres and kilometres before the Grand Hotel Kempinski High Tatras in Slovakia? Well, perhaps there is, guests ...

Apart from Košice, Slovakia's second main city, and Prešov, a university town, one could say that almost everywhere further eastwards in Slovakia, from a tourist perspective, still remains relatively off the beaten track. There are a few exceptions, most notably the out-of-the-ordinary locales of ...

If certain authors are forever linked with certain places – Joyce/Dublin, Dickens/London, Hardy/”Wessex”, Kafka/ Prague, Hugo/Paris and so on – the works of Hungary’s most internationally known writer, Sándor Márai, found their wellspring in Košice, Slovakia, or Kassa as it was named when in ...