Year: 2017

Cost of holidays to Spain ‘could go up by 10%’, warns Thomas Cook

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Spanish holidays could become more expensive as the value of sterling remains weak, travel operator Thomas Cook warns. Thomas Cook has said it expects the price of holidays to Spain to go up by around 5% to 10% due to the fall in the value of the pound following the Brexit vote. The travel company told Sky News this was also in part due to intense competition and higher hotel costs at popular Spanish island resorts as they take advantage of a buoyant market. Holidaymakers have been flocking to the…

UNHCR praises UAE’s role in humanitarian work worldwide

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TUNIS: The Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Tunisia, Mazin Abu Shanab, hailed the role played by the UAE in the humanitarian aid field and its support for refugees around the globe. While meeting with GCC journalists as part of UNHCR’s tour in North of Africa, Abu Shanab praised the significant role being played by the UAE to support refugees, especially its humanitarian efforts in Yemen. Nasir Abel Fernandes, UNHCR’s Senior Emergency Coordinator in Libya, said that the number of people in need of aid in…

Libyan delegations to join dialogue over deal amendment

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A delegation from Libya’s Higher Council of State and representatives of the House of Representatives on Monday have left for neighboring Tunisia to participate in a UN-sponsored political dialogue meeting. The meeting, backed by the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), will be held on Tuesday. Ghassan Salame, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UNSMIL, said the meeting aimed to introduce amendments to the current political agreement. Amendment of the political agreement is the first stage of a roadmap proposed by Salame on Wednesday at the…

Electronics now permitted on UK-bound flights from Turkey and Tunisia

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Restrictions on hand-luggage for most UK-bound flights from Tunisia and Turkey have been lifted. Large phones, laptops and tablets are now permitted in the cabin on flights departing from Turkish airports Antalya, Bodrum, Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen and Iszmir, and from Tunisia’s Tunis-Carthage International. Restrictions on carrying large phones, laptops, tablets and accessories into the cabin of UK-bound flights from Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon and Tunisia were introduced in March. However, after working with the aviation industry and international partners to introduce tough additional security measures, the UK government…

Emirates to increase flights to Tunis as tourism recovers

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Emirates is increasing flights between Dubai and Tunis from six to seven a week starting from the end of next month. The additional Dubai to Tunis flight will be operated every Monday with an Emirates Boeing 777-300ER aircraft offering eight private suites in First Class, 42 lie-flat seats in Business Class and 310 Economy Class 310 seats. The added flight will give passengers in Tunis greater access to Emirates’ global route network, particularly destinations in the Middle East, GCC, West Asia, Asia Pacific region and the US, with just one stop in Dubai,…

Greece tourism film wins at the 2017 World Tourism Organisation Awards

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 Greece has been honoured at the recent United Nations World Tourism Organisation’s (UNWTO) 22nd general assembly in Chengdu, China on 15 September. Greece – a 365 Day Destination has won the top prize in the European category of the UNWTO international video competition. The film was submitted by the Greek National Tourism Organisation (GNTO) and was directed by Andonis Theocharis Kioukas, who has masterminded numerous documentaries and videos about Greece in recent years. Neos Kosmos caught up with the talented Mr Kioukas in July at Cine Manto in Mykonos, just before…

17 ISIS Fighters Reported Killed as US Ends Lull in Libya Airstrikes

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The United States military said on Sunday that it had conducted drone strikes on an Islamic State training camp in Libya, killing 17 militants in the first American airstrikes in the strife-torn North African nation since January. A half-dozen “precision strikes” on Friday hit a training camp about 150 miles southeast of Surt, from which militants were moving fighters in and out of the country, stockpiling weapons and equipment, and plotting and conducting attacks, the Pentagon’s Africa Command said in a statement. Three vehicles were also destroyed. Between August and…

Angela Merkel: You deserve being a prominent leader despite pain

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Angela Merkel is set for a fourth term as Germany’s chancellor after her centre right CDU/CSU won a projected 33% of the vote in federal elections, making it the largest party in the Bundestag with an estimated 218 seats. An article broadcast on December 22, 2016 by Ben Rhouma Chedly supported Angela Merkel, after the terrorist Christmas attack in Germany that undermined her popularity.  Here follows the article: “Angela Merkel: You deserve being a prominent leader despite pain As Tunisian citizen reared on coexistence and respect for others whatever the…

Dutch tourists arrive to Enfidha-Hammamet international airport as travel ban to Tunisia lifted

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Some 191 Dutch tourists arrived on Sunday to Enfidha-Hammamet International Airport, as the travel to Tunisia’s destination was lifted by Britain and Holland by late July. These tourists have chosen to spend their holidays in hotel units in the city resorts of Sousse (El Kantaoui), Hammamet and Monastir, Sousse regional tourism delegate told TAP. This first flight organised by the Belgian-Dutch tour operator “Corendon” will be followed by five more flights by “TUI” World Towers every Sunday in October to land in the international airport of Enfidha-Hammamet.. The number of…

Climate models point to water stress as a result of glacier disappearance in Asia

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Even if the planet only warms up by 1.5°C—which is what the signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement are aiming for—one-third of all Asian glaciers will have melted by 2100, according to results of a study by Dutch researchers, published in Nature recently. The melting of the glaciers constitutes a serious problem, since millions of people are partially dependent on the melt water. The researchers used results from 110 different climate models for four different climate change scenarios. The results are alarming. If the planet warms up by just 1.5°C,…