BREAKING NEWS: collapse of Europe’s third largest tour operator FTI

The UK economy is poised for a significant boost as fans prepare to spend big during the Summer of Sport. According to Experian Economics, the European Championships in Germany and the upcoming Paris Olympics are expected to drive an additional £233 million in spending over the next three months.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Thursday, June 20, 2024. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Flying to Europe just got cheaper thanks to a new flash sale by low-cost Play Airlines, with 25 percent off routes to Dublin, Paris, and beyond.

An early taste of zero-emissions air travel is coming to European skies this summer – and it’s available to book from just €120 ($129).

A rise in dengue fever cases across Europe isn’t the most comfortable pre-holiday news but there are ways to reduce the risk of infection. 

Regulators from the European Union are poised to approve the takeover bid by German national carrier Lufthansa of Italian airline ITA.

A version of this article originally appeared in Glamour.

Cruising down a quiet, traffic-free river, surrounded by scenic riverfront views is an ideal way to see Europe. You can sip your wine while watching picture-perfect scenery breeze past – taking in castles, medieval villages and fields of flowers. 

Boasting the country's national colors of black, red, and gold on the fuselage and wingtips, the German Air Force, or Luftwaffe, has received its third and final fully-equipped governmental A350-900.

Anna Pagani is no stranger to long journeys. She has spent thousands of euros and countless hours criss-crossing Europe’s train tracks since pledging not to take flights a couple of years ago.

Go City—the world’s leading sightseeing pass brand—launches its first pass in Eastern Europe, the All-Inclusive Prague Pass. The Go City All-Inclusive Prague Pass enables travelers to experience a selection of the city’s best sights—all handpicked by a local destination expert—at the best price.

It’s a boiling summer’s day in Prague and I’m staring into the austere face of Franz Kafka. Not the real Kafka, of course – he died exactly a century ago, which is why I’m here – but a cast-iron plaque on the wall of his birthplace. The house, a replica as it turns out, sits pretty much on Old Town Square, which as usual is thronged with tourists snapping pics of its fairytale architecture, sipping drinks on terraces and gawking at its 15th-century astronomical clock. It’s impossible to imagine Kafka – 6ft tall and skinny, with dark, intense eyes – in this vibrant, carefree milieu. But then the Prague that Kafka was born into, in 1883 – the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, part of the Austro-Hungarian empire – was a very different city. And Kafka himself, alienated both as a Jew and a minority German speaker, had a sensitive imagination that interpreted the city’s narrow, winding streets as claustrophobic and its looming spires as threatening.