Day Headlines in Travel News: 2025-01-04

  • Taiwan Welcomes Over 7.85 Million Visitors in 2024 (Breaking Travel News 2025-01-04 06:47:07)
    Taiwan welcomed over 7.85 million visitors in 2024, driving tourism growth with new markets, iconic festivals, and global visitor centers in key cities.Chou plans to develop tourism markets within a four- to eight-hour flight radius of Taiwan in 2025, prioritizing India, New Zealand, and Australia. To enhance accessibility for foreign travelers, tourism information centers are set to open in Sydney and Mumbai this year, according to CNA.
  • Low-cost airline Wizz Air to resume flights between Israel and various European destinations (Breaking Travel News 2025-01-04 06:45:36)
    The low-cost Hungarian airline company Wizz Air will resume flights between Israel and mainly 10 European destinations beginning Jan. 15, the Israeli business daily Globes reported on Tuesday. The airline company will reportedly offer flights between Ben-Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv to Rome, London, Milan, Vienna, Krakow, Bucharest, and Athens but also the Middle Eastern hub Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
  • Airlines get onboard with Apple share location feature for AirTag (Breaking Travel News 2025-01-04 06:42:03)
    In recent years, many major airlines have improved their ability to track checked bags throughout the travel journey using technology like NFC scanning. But the process of finding mishandled bags did not keep pace. That changed in late 2024 when a number of carriers rushed to be the first to adopt Apple’s recently released option to share the location of AirTags and other Find My network devices.
  • China Southern Airlines Expands Horizons With New Shenyang to Dubai Route (Breaking Travel News 2025-01-04 06:39:55)
    China Southern Airlines unveils a new Shenyang-Dubai route with a Guangzhou stopover, delivering seamless travel, modern services, and enhanced connectivity.
  • Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines to offer new routes connecting Istanbul Kahramanmaras and Izmir Agri (Breaking Travel News 2025-01-04 06:36:07)
    Pegasus Airlines has announced the reinstatement of two domestic flight routes during the Northern summer of 2025, reconnecting Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport with Kahramanmaras and Izmir with Agri. These routes, which were last operated in early 2022, aim to meet the growing demand for domestic air travel and provide a vital boost to regional connectivity. The timing aligns with the peak summer travel season, when domestic and international visitors increasingly explore Turkey’s diverse destinations.
  • Singapore Airlines launches new amenity kit in partnership with Le Labo (Breaking Travel News 2025-01-04 06:34:22)
    Singapore Airlines has launched a new business class amenity kit in collaboration with New York-based Le Labo Fragrances.The pouch is made of waxed cotton canvas, which SIA said had been inspired by Le Labo’s “iconic lab aprons”, and has been designed for use as a travel document holder after the flight.