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Slow recovery of tourism in Bruges

02-02-2022

The city of Bruges in West Flanders, which is called Venice of the North, was visited by 4.5 million tourists in 2021, more than three quarters of whom were residents of Belgium

A disastrous summer for tourism in Brussels

09-15-2021

The tourism sector of Brussels lost more than 70% of revenue compared to the summer of 2019

Belgium opened a "hotel" with walruses

08-05-2020

While much of Western Europe is suffocating from the heat, visitors to the Belgian wildlife park Pairi Daiza are given an exclusive opportunity to admire the floating walruses from the "underwater hotel"

Belgium for the first time opened its beach for dogs

07-08-2020

In the beach area of the Belgian resort town Middelkerke, located in the сentral part of the North sea coast, in this season for the first time opened a bathing area for domestic dogs

The Belgian province of Liège will allow its locals to visit tourist attractions for free

06-29-2020

As part of the tourism recovery plan, the government of the province of Liege, one of the ten provinces of Belgium, and its Tourism Federation offer locals to visit tourist attractions for free

In Belgium the salary supplement is paid by eco-checks

01-22-2020

Owners of small and medium-sized businesses in Belgium are  allowed to pay employees a surcharge in the form of so-called eco-checks, which they can use to pay for environmental goods and services

2019 was a record year for tourism in Brussels

01-17-2020

A record number of overnight stays were registered in 2019 in Brussels – about 9.4 million against about 8.5 million nights in the previous year

Hotel in Bruges is recognized as the most romantic in the world

10-28-2019

Heritage hotel in Bruges, Belgium, won the prestigious World Luxury Hotel Awards 2019 in the category of the best "Luxury Romantic Hotel (Global)".

Spain's Wamos buys Thomas Cook retail business in Belgium

10-16-2019

Spanish travel company Wamos decided to acquire 62 of the 91 points of sale in Belgium owned by the bankrupt company Thomas Cook. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed, but it is already known that the Thomas Cook offices in Belgium from October 21 will start working under the sign of Neckermann and the management of Wamos Benelux.