Budapest Airport closes worst year ever in 2020
Budapest Airport, the operator of Budapest's Liszt Ferenc International Airport, closed its worst year on record in 2020, the operator said on Friday.
DK calls on govt to pay for PCR tests required for travels by recipients of Eastern jabs
The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) has called on the government to cover the cost of PCR tests for Hungarians who wish to travel abroad but were inoculated with coronavirus vaccines that are not approved in European Union countries.
MAV: International train services to resume in June
Hungarian railways MAV said on Thursday that significant improvement in the epidemic situation will allow several of its international services to resume from June 1.
Budapest Airport signs sister airport agreement with China’s Pudong
Budapest Airport, which operates Liszt Ferenc International, signed a sister airport agreement with Shanghai Pudong International Airport during a Chinese-Hungarian logistics and e-commerce forum on Wednesday.
Not your average expat
‘All I wanted to do is make a difference’
A foray beyond the environs of Budapest to one of the lesser-visited cities in Hungary offers a glimpse of small-town life that has elsewhere been obscured by urbanisation and a faster pace of living. On leaving the M5 motorway, the bumpy country roads conjure ...
Hungary lifts entry restrictions for travellers from Romania
Following Romania's lifting of entry restrictions for Hungarian citizens, Hungary has reciprocated by lifting restrictions for Romanians who hold an immunity certificate, the foreign minister said late on Saturday.
Travels after the pandemic #4: east Slovakia
’Nowhere’ was undeniably ’somewhere’ for Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol once quipped that he "came from nowhere". While it is simple enough to look up a biography and discover that he actually left the womb in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on August 6, 1928, his parents had lived in the east Slovakian village of ...
Parliament to vote on new accommodation rating system
All tourist accommodation in Hungary will be classified from one to five stars on the basis of uniform criteria, the CEO of the Hungarian Tourism Agency (MTU) said on Saturday, outlining a bill being submitted to parliament.
The capital with the eye of an expat
BBQ at the Kis-Balaton
With the advent of the summer sun, the annual exodus from Budapest is in the offing. Visitors to the city during July and August are often surprised at how empty it is of Hungarians. While Parisians head to the coast and Milanese head for ...
Austria lists Hungary as low-incidence country
Austria has listed Hungary among the countries with a low incidence of coronavirus infections, the operative body responsible for handling the epidemic in Hungary said on Wednesday.
