LONDON, United Kingdom — Fresh booking statistics show Americans are turning European trips into a near-year-round ritual, with the United Kingdom, Germany and France topping a list of 10 European destinations that welcomed the largest share of U.S. travelers in 2024.
ROME — Travelers with Italy on their weekend itinerary should brace for a rare double whammy of disruption: a nationwide transport strike that begins late Thursday and a series of demonstrations expected to clog Rome’s historic core on Saturday.
ROME — Holiday‐makers eyeing a weekend escape between the United Kingdom and Rome, Milan or Venice may want to pack a healthy dose of patience. A new round of industrial action by flight and ground crews in Italy is scheduled for Friday and threatens to ground or delay more than 100 departures and arrivals, placing as many as 20,000 seats in limbo.
ROME — Italy’s shoulder-season travelers can expect a flurry of changes this autumn, from fresh air links and nostalgia-rich railway journeys to a calendar of transport strikes and a looming biometric border system. Here is what to know before you pack for Rome, Milan, Naples or beyond.
Italy’s main gateways are adding point-to-point service just in time for cooler weather and smaller crowds.
ROME — A warning from Italy’s data-protection regulator has travelers worldwide rethinking the age-old ritual of handing over a passport at hotel check-in. According to a recent advisory from the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali, several hotel information-technology platforms were breached, exposing high-resolution scans of guests’ passports and national ID cards.
Italy’s private beach clubs—those neat rows of umbrellas and loungers you see from Liguria to Puglia—are posting another year of price rises. Altroconsumo’s 2025 audit of 213 lidos across ten destinations found average prices for one umbrella and two loungers up about 5% versus last summer and roughly 17% higher than in 2021.
A fresh set of numbers from vacation-rental marketplace HomeToGo points to a banner year ahead for Greek tourism, and Athens officials can hardly hide their excitement. The platform’s annual travel-trends report shows that search interest from U.S. users for Greece vacations in 2025 has rocketed so sharply that the country now ranks No.
ROME — Booking a hotel in the Eternal City has always meant toggling through tabs, battling pop-ups and second-guessing neighborhood names. That ritual may be fading. A recently released autonomous version of ChatGPT has proved it can translate a vague request—“find me a place to stay in Rome”—into a confirmed reservation in just minutes, according to a commentary published on industry site Hospitality Net.
ROME, Italy — The height of the European summer getaway could be jolted next week when thousands of aviation workers across Italy walk off the job for part of the afternoon. The coordinated industrial action, scheduled for July 26, is expected to touch virtually every corner of Italy’s air-travel network and may ripple out to airports far beyond Rome and Milan.
