Canada’s new Electronic Travel Authorisation (apply here) comes into effect from September 30 and is required by all visa-exempt foreign nationals travelling to or transiting Canada by air. It costs CAD$ 7 and is valid for five years. US passport holders do not require an eTA.
Irish visitor numbers to Thailand are up 4.6pc on 2015, and were up a colossal 14.5pc in June. To end July 39,813 Irish people had visited Thailand.
Oktoberfest began in Munich amid heightend security, commencing 16 days of excess in which 6m visitors will drink 6m litres of beer and spend 1bn.
England’s annual Post Office survey named Cape Town as best value of the 34 resorts and cities surveyed for a basket of holiday products.
Four Irish were on a coach which overturned in torrential rain on its way to Barcelona airport injuring 24 trapped tourists.
The design of the centrepiece sculpture in the US $200m public space project at Hudson Yards was unveiled.
The US created the Atlantic Ocean‘s first marine national monument, Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument consists of nearly 5,000 square miles of underwater canyons and mountains off the New England coast, the 27th monument created by Barack Obama.
