Press Releases Refund policy for visitors unable to travel to Europe: Private Sector Shows Most Flexibility Brussels, 30 March 2026 Find out more ETOA strengthens leadership with seven new Advisory Council appointments Brussels, 13 March 2026 Find out more ETOA and Trippz Announce Strategic Partnership on Tourism Taxes in Europe Brussels, 20 February 2026 Find out more ETOA and New Deal Europe Announce Strategic Partnership Covering South-Eastern, Central, and Eastern Europe Brussels, 19th November 2025 Find out more ETOA launches SHOP – Shoulder & Off-Peak Marketplace 2026 23rd October 2025 Find out more Travel and tourism sector raises concern over proposed ETIAS fee increase 24th July 2025 Find out more Negative impact on Spain’s competitiveness of Royal Decree 933/2021 10th July 2025 Find out more ZEERO GROUP Announces ETOA as First Contributor to Sustainable Fuels Initiative 27th June 2025 Find out more ETOA announces partnership with Auxilia Networks 16th May 2025 Find out more ETOA appoints new members of Board and Advisory Council 26th February, 2025 Find out more Demand for Summer Travel in Europe Fully Recovers to Pre-Pandemic Levels 28th May, 2024 Find out more EURO-EMOTUR Project Announces Launch Date for Euro-Emotur Hub Brussels, 16th April 2024 Find out more TURISMO: SIGLATO PROTOCOLLO D’INTESA TRA FTO E ETOA Roma, 11th March 2024 Find out more Tourism: Memorandum of understanding signed between FTO and ETOA Rome, 11th March 2024 Find out more ETOA appoints new members of its Board and Advisory Council Brussels, 6th March 2024 Find out more ETOA launches Adventure Europe 28th February, 2024 Find out more New Deal Europe Successfully Concludes ‘Essential Balkans’ Campaign 29-12-2023 Find out more ETOA and ETC launch joint initiative on China 06-12-2023 Find out more ETOA and Excursions™ join forces to deliver two days of unrivalled group travel and travel trade networking opportunities 22-08-2023 Find out more Partnership between ETOA and ELTA 03-07-2023 Find out more ETOA Launches Destinations Exchange Europe 13-06-2023 Find out more Industry Day 2023 – European Tourism Association AISBL (ETOA) 28-02-2023 Find out more New B2B travel trade workshop launched: Destinations Exchange Europe 18-01-2023 Find out more Record breaking summer for flights to Greece and Turkey 7 September, 2022 Find out more New Deal Europe forms partnership with ETOA 27 April, 2022 Find out more Schengen and North American Market in 2021 09 February, 2021 Find out more Latent demand for travel to Europe is strong, ETOA discovers as it launches first online B2B event, City Fair, 20 July 2020 2 June, 2020 Find out more Tourist businesses worth billions may close because they are excluded from Government’s Coronavirus tourism and leisure rate relief scheme 29 April, 2020 Find out more ETOA’s new Coronavirus Hub provides vital business resources 20 April, 2020 Find out more US travel ban will have detrimental implications on European and American tourism 12 March, 2020 Find out more ETOA Calls on Italian Governments to respond now to support cultural tourism 9 March, 2020 Find out more ETOA calls on Governments to take measures to halt the economic impact of Covid-19 and restore confidence 6 March, 2020 Find out more ETOA calls for evidence-based response to COVID-19 26 February, 2020 Find out more ETOA’s first conference & B2B marketplace for the Italian market: VIVA 10 February, 2020 Find out more Last ‘Britain & Ireland Marketplace’ before Brexit reports overall positive outlook for 2020 5 February, 2020 Find out more ETOA Brexit Seminar for the Travel & Tourism Sector 16 October, 2019 Find out more Positive trends from major long-haul markets for European tourism 15 October, 2019 Find out more ETOA Summit in the Alps 2019: Tourism in Transition 4 October, 2019 Find out more Leading European travel trade association, ETOA sets up Iberia working group 19 September, 2019 Find out more ETOA’s 2019 review of European tourism taxes calls for destinations to recognise the value of the visitor economy and risk to competitiveness 12 September, 2019 Find out more ETOA celebrates 30 years in Brussels as new European Parliament opens 5 July, 2019 Find out more ETOA City Fair Conference 2019: Smart data, great leadership and destination management strategies key to solving visitor capacity issues 19 June, 2019 Find out more New partnership to focus on sustainable tourism in Europe 29 May, 2019 Find out more ETOA celebrated its 30th anniversary year with its members and partners at a networking cocktail in Paris 28 March, 2019 Find out more ETOA appoints President of Tauck and VP of Leisure Sales at Accor Hotels to board 23 March, 2019 Find out more ETOA partners with CELTH on ‘overtourism’ and sustainable destination management 5 March, 2019 Find out more 121 European travel industry companies come together to promote Europe as #1 tourism destination at Los Angeles travel & adventure show 15 February, 2019 Find out more ETOA calls for urgent reciprocal agreements to prevent airport queues 23 January, 2019 Find out more Rome’s Chaotic Coach Plan to Go Ahead 14 December, 2018 Find out more Plans to reduce coaches by 65% in Rome will inflict body blow to group leisure tourism sector 12 December, 2018 Find out more ETOA urges European Parliamentarians to rid Schengen visa processes of pointless red tape to boost tourism from long haul markets 29 November, 2018 Find out more ETOA welcomes 43 new delegates to its Britain & Ireland Marketplace (BIM) 29 November, 2018 Find out more Tourism bodies call on Irish Government to suspend plans to raise VAT on hotels by 50% on 1 january 2019 19 November, 2018 Find out more ETOA calls for suspension of new coach restrictions in Rome due for implementation 1 January 2019 07 November, 2018 Find out more ETOA highlights need for collaborative destination marketing campaigns as multi-destination travel trends revealed at Summit 10 October, 2018 Find out more Visas cost European tourism industry $1 billion 10 October, 2018 Find out more Immigration changes will be a bureaucratic nightmare for skilled EU workers, says Tom Jenkins, ETOA 25 September, 2018 Find out more Freedom of Movement leads agenda at ETOA European Tourism Summit 2018 10 September, 2018 Find out more ETOA membership reaches 1000, putting product diversification in the spotlight 30 July, 2018 Find out more ETOA welcomes Schengen Visa reform and urges swift progress 20 March, 2018 Find out more
