Thomas Cook

The number of passengers passing through the airport in the Bulgarian capital increased by 14 % in the first two months of this year.

A total of 641 807 people were serviced at Sofia airport, daily Dnevnik informs.

German tour operator TUI will increase by 35% its charter flights from Germany to Varna and Burgas, on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, in Summer 2016 compared with last year, Bulgaria's Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has said.

Greece boasts over 2,000 islands, so making a decision on which one to visit might be a little daunting, Thomas Cook says.

Therefore, to help its customers to make the right choice and enjoy wonderful holiday, it picked the best 5 Greek islands for every taste and presented them:

Best for beaches: Kefalonia

With good bargains, many renovated hotels and a number of events Bulgaria "has turned professional" as a tourist destination, a German weekly media outlet writes.

Touristik Aktuell, which is specialized in writing about travels, events and destinations, quotes [DE] an official for German travel agency Schauinsland-Reisen as saying: "It smells like a Bulgarian summer."

Now that Christmas holiday period is over, travelers are starting searching for their summer destination.

“January bookings are a weather vane for the travel industry – early indicators of customer confidence and popular destinations” Mirror says in an article on top Google’s travel-related searches.

A string of British airlines have again delayed the resumption of regular flights to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh following a plane crash earlier this year.

The airlines first suspended flights after the crash of a Russian airliner near the Red Sea holiday destination on Oct. 31 in which all 224 people on board died.

A Thomas Cook flight with 231 holidaymakers on board travelling from Newcastle, England to Dalaman in Turkey had to be diverted to Bulgaria's capital Sofia after an allegedly drunk woman passenger became abusive and disruptive, British media outlets have reported.

Strong summer holiday demand offset the impact of the Tunisian beach massacre for TUI which said annual profit would come in at the upper end of its forecast range.

An escalating debt crisis that may force Greece?s banks to shut next week has only slightly dented tourists? appetite for island holidays in the country, with advance demand for package tours still robust, travel operators said this week.

An inquest by Wakefield Coroner’s Court into the deaths of Bobby and Christi Sheherd, aged six and seven when they died while on a holiday to Corfu, found that tour operators Thomas Cook “breached their duty of care.” The children died from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty boiler while on holiday in 2006.