Budapest Airport starts maintenance work on 2nd runway
Renovation work on the second runway of Budapest's Liszt Ferenc International Airport will start on Monday, and will be carried out by Budapest Airport in a single phase.
10 percent of the hotels in the survey were still closed in September
Association projects 70 percent revenue loss at Budapest hotels this year
For most hotels in Budapest, the loss of revenue this year may exceed 70 percent from last year, while hotels outside of the capital are expected to see their revenue fall by 20-40 percent due to the coronavirus crisis, according to a representative survey ...
2020 hosts Rijeka, Galway may extend into 2021
European Capitals of Culture set to adjust to pandemic
The coronavirus crisis has hit culture sideways everywhere and two places in particular that deserve some sympathy are Rijeka in Croatia and Galway in Ireland, which had planned hard and then looked forward to a whole 12 months in the spotlight as the European ...
New line would be suitable for trains up to a speed of 350 km/h
High-speed rail link next top Slovak-Hungarian transport project
The next most important joint Hungarian-Slovak transport project is the construction of a high-speed railway connecting Budapest, Bratislava and Warsaw, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said.
Wizz Air to open base in Catania
Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air will open a base in Catania, on Sicily's east coast, in October, the company told MTI.
Record-breaking plans halted by pandemic
Budapest Airport expects 5.5 million passengers this year
Due to the flight cancelations and drop in passenger traffic expected during the remaining months of this year, Budapest Airport has recalculated its annual forecast issued 3 months ago. According to the new projection, the annual passenger number will be no more than 5.5 ...
Millenáris Széllkapu Park opens
New urban green space by Mammut mall
Where once stood two catastrophically ugly buildings – the cheapest of office blocks and a massive rotting concrete factory – now can be found the beautiful Millenáris Széllkapu Park, a green space with a lake, a grove of cherry trees, water spouts and a ...
Vienna's Sigmund Freud Museum reopens after EUR 4m refit
Private rooms accessible for first time
Vienna’s Sigmund Freud Museum reopened on August 29, 2020 following a rebuild (which took longer than planned due to COVID-19) in which it was renovated, expanded and made wheelchair accessible. Sigmund Freud and his family lived at this historic address, Berggasse 19, which was ...
OK, so Vienna is a river city: Hilton Vienna Danube Waterfront
Going with the flow
This is a side of Vienna that we hadn't seen before. On half a dozen previous visits we had been in the iron grip of the Ringstrasse: staying at hotels there and following the sightseeing flock to the opera house, the cathedral, the palaces, ...
An ambitious family holiday drive to the Baltics
Time to take the high roads
How to overcome the plague for a quick getaway and a desirable change of scenery in these close-to-home times? After all, the odds are stacked decidedly against general travel arrangements and summer holidays. Finally, though, the Visegrád Four and Baltic State borders re-opened recently…
