https://travelmarket.org Travel Market en https://travelmarket.org/bulgaria-euro-sofia-visitors/ Bulgaria became the 21st country to use the euro on January 1 2026. The lev, pegged for years, was converted at a fixed 1.95583 to the euro. For a traveller it's simple. No more exchange booths at Sofia airport, no more mental division by two, and the same card works in Bulgaria and Greece without a currency fee. currency Bulgaria Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/bulgaria-euro-sofia-visitors/ https://travelmarket.org/catania-la-pescheria-fish-market/ Walk out of Catania's cathedral square, past the elephant fountain, and look for the stairs going down by the fountain of Amenano. The noise reaches you first. Then the wet stone and the smell of the sea. This is La Pescheria, 'a Piscaria in Catanese, and it's been the city's fish market for about two hundred years. food markets Sicily Italy Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/catania-la-pescheria-fish-market/ https://travelmarket.org/centre-pompidou-closed-until-2030/ If Paris is on your list for the next few years, cross one thing off. The Centre Pompidou is shut. Its modern art collection closed to the public on March 10 2025, and the whole building followed on September 22 2025. The plan is to reopen in 2030. museums art Paris France Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/centre-pompidou-closed-until-2030/ https://travelmarket.org/cite-du-vin-bordeaux-ten-years/ La Cité du Vin opened on the Garonne in June 2016 and turns ten this year. The building by XTU, the practice of Anouk Legendre and Nicolas Desmazières, is meant to look like wine swirling in a glass. Locals call it other things. It cost about €81 million before tax, and since opening it has passed 3.5 million visitors. wine museums Bordeaux France Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/cite-du-vin-bordeaux-ten-years/ https://travelmarket.org/cruise-passenger-taxes-europe-2026/ Cruising has never been bigger. The industry body CLIA counted a record 37.2 million ocean cruise passengers in 2025, up from 34.6 million the year before, and an earlier CLIA outlook put 2026 at around 39.6 million. Most of those ships stop in the same handful of European ports, for a day, and the ports have started sending the bill. cruises tourist taxes overtourism Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/cruise-passenger-taxes-europe-2026/ https://travelmarket.org/eu-air-passenger-rights-reform-cabin-bags/ After about ten years of talks, the EU has a deal on updating its air passenger rules, the regulation everyone calls EU261. Parliament and the member states reached a provisional agreement on June 15 2026, and the European Parliament approved it in plenary on July 7 with 646 votes in favour. The new rules apply from 2027. passenger rights airlines travel rules EU Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/eu-air-passenger-rights-reform-cabin-bags/ https://travelmarket.org/guggenheim-bilbao-2025-visitors-economic-impact/ Every city that wants a museum to fix its economy ends up pointing at Bilbao. Nearly thirty years after Frank Gehry's titanium building opened in 1997, the numbers are still the strongest argument for the idea. museums Bilbao Basque Country Spain Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/guggenheim-bilbao-2025-visitors-economic-impact/ https://travelmarket.org/holiday-booking-fraud-scams/ Every summer, British fraud reports follow the holiday calendar. Action Fraud, the UK's national fraud reporting centre, logged 6,066 holiday fraud reports in 2024 with losses of £11,183,957. That's an average of £1,844 a victim. In 2023 the figures were 6,640 reports and £12.3 million lost, peaking in July and August. Those are only the people who reported it. scams short-term rentals hotels EU Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/holiday-booking-fraud-scams/ https://travelmarket.org/italy-key-box-ban-short-term-rentals/ If you've rented an apartment in Italy in the last few years, you probably met the key box. A small grey safe bolted to a railing or a door frame, a code sent by text, no host in sight. It made short-term rentals cheap to run. It's now on its way out in the big cities. short-term rentals travel rules Italy Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/italy-key-box-ban-short-term-rentals/ https://travelmarket.org/lisbon-tourist-tax-4-euros/ Lisbon charges every overnight guest €4 a night. It used to be €2. The city council voted to double it in July 2024 and the new rate started on September 1 that year, so anyone booking Lisbon now is paying the higher figure whether they notice it or not. tourist taxes Lisbon Portugal Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/lisbon-tourist-tax-4-euros/ https://travelmarket.org/mont-saint-michel-visitors-parking-shuttle/ Mont-Saint-Michel had 2,793,985 visitors in 2025, up 3.1% on the year before. On the busiest days more than 30,000 people squeeze up one narrow street on a granite rock in the bay. The abbey at the top took about 1.62 million of them, up from 1.48 million in 2024. overtourism landmarks France Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/mont-saint-michel-visitors-parking-shuttle/ https://travelmarket.org/notre-dame-paris-free-entry-11-million-visitors/ Notre-Dame reopened on December 8 2024, five and a half years after the fire. In its first year it took in about 11 million visitors. Before 2019 the figure was roughly 8 to 9 million. People who'd watched it burn on television wanted to see it standing. entry fees landmarks Paris France Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/notre-dame-paris-free-entry-11-million-visitors/ https://travelmarket.org/oktoberfest-2026-beer-prices-record-visitors/ The 191st Oktoberfest ended last Sunday, October 4, after 16 days on the Theresienwiese. Munich's mayor Dominik Krause tapped the first keg at noon on September 19, and by the city's preliminary count about 7.4 million people came through. That's a record, up from 6.5 million in 2025, a jump of around 14%. festivals beer Munich Germany Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/oktoberfest-2026-beer-prices-record-visitors/ https://travelmarket.org/porto-chestnut-carts-autumn/ Mid-October in northern Portugal means smoke. The castanha carts come out, the little steam-engine roasters start puffing, and the smell of burnt shells drifts down the quays. Castanhas assadas, quentes e boas. Hot and good. street food tourist taxes Portugal Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/porto-chestnut-carts-autumn/ https://travelmarket.org/sintra-traffic-rules-pena-palace/ Sintra is half an hour from Lisbon by train and it feels like every visitor to Lisbon goes there on the same day. The palaces run by Parques de Sintra took about 3.4 million visits in 2024 and roughly 3.1 million in 2025, with Pena Palace and its park alone taking 1.9 million last year. The dip in 2025 wasn't a policy win. Several days were lost to storm and fire-risk closures. overtourism travel rules Sintra Portugal Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/sintra-traffic-rules-pena-palace/ https://travelmarket.org/taormina-white-lotus-effect-hotel-rates/ Taormina was famous long before television found it. Goethe came through, D.H. Lawrence lived here, the Greek theatre has framed Etna for two thousand years. But the second season of The White Lotus, filmed at the San Domenico Palace and set around this hill town, did something a century of guidebooks didn't. It made Taormina a luxury price point. hotels overtourism Sicily Italy Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/taormina-white-lotus-effect-hotel-rates/ https://travelmarket.org/temple-of-debod-madrid-free-entry/ There's an Egyptian temple in a Madrid park, and it costs nothing to see. The Temple of Debod stands in the Parque del Oeste, a few minutes' walk from Plaza de España and the Royal Palace, and on a clear evening half the city seems to come here for the sunset. landmarks history Madrid Spain Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/temple-of-debod-madrid-free-entry/ https://travelmarket.org/time-out-market-lisbon-food-hall-chain/ In May 2014 a city magazine took over half of an old market hall at Cais do Sodré and filled it with chefs. The other half stayed a working market, selling fish, fruit and flowers to people who'd shopped there for decades. The Mercado da Ribeira became Time Out Market Lisboa, and within a few years it was one of the most visited places in Portugal. food markets Lisbon Portugal Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/time-out-market-lisbon-food-hall-chain/ https://travelmarket.org/vasa-museum-stockholm-visitors-tickets/ On August 10 1628 the warship Vasa left Stockholm on her maiden voyage, heeled over in a gust and sank about 1,300 metres from where she started. She was the pride of the Swedish navy for about twenty minutes. Three centuries later that disaster is Sweden's most visited museum. museums history Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/vasa-museum-stockholm-visitors-tickets/ https://travelmarket.org/venice-access-fee-2026/ Venice ran its day-tripper fee for the third year in 2026, and by now it's simply part of the trip. Sixty paid days this year, up from 54 in 2025 and 29 in 2024. The window ran from April 3 to July 26, mostly weekends, public holidays and the long bridges around them. entry fees overtourism Venice Italy Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://travelmarket.org/venice-access-fee-2026/