Tourism
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Tourism: What did you see in Auschwitz?
26 January 20121617 Télérama Paris -
Spain: Glass almost empty for binging Brits abroad
31 August 2011190 The Independent London -
Romania: The totalitarian tourist trail
18 August 201131PresseuropRomânia libera -
A town in Europe: How Palomares survived the bomb
28 February 201177 Público Madrid -
Tourism: Chinese are the new Americans
25 January 2011285 La Repubblica Rome -
Spain: Barcelona, 7 million visitors can't be wrong
20 December 2010PresseuropEl Periódico de Catalunya -
Travel: Krakow and Warsaw, sibling rivals
2 November 201050 Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Warsaw -
A town in Europe: Berlin, the new Tel Aviv
7 September 2010150 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Tourism: Kosmopolitan Kaliningrad
19 November 200914 Cafebabel.com Paris -
Germany: Cologne is not just a perfume
23 October 2009Cafebabel.com Paris -
Tourism: Don’t celebrate, escalate
20 July 2009Der Spiegel Hamburg -
Memory Lane: Bussing to the new frontier
16 July 200914 Lidové noviny Prague -
Price wars: Shopping without borders
20 May 20092 Respekt Prague
Every year more than a million people visit Auschwitz. In the run-up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the liberation of the camp on 27 January, Télérama wonders: Is this mass tourism not to some extent a profanation of memory? 
Following riots on the Costa Brava, and hotel balcony deaths in Majorca, the Spanish authorities are increasingly looking at ways to crack down on alcohol tourism. 
Victim of the accidental fall on its soil of four American nuclear bombs in 1966, Palomares in Spain is trying to make a fresh start and to get back onto the tourist trail by opening a museum. But a question remains: what to do with the irradiated earth? 
Buoyed by the emergence of China’s middle class, the growing wave of travelers from China could revitalise the European tourist industry. But businesses in the sector have yet to adapt to their new customers. 
The eternal rivalry between Poland’s former and the current capitals has lead to intense competition in the field of tourism. It is a hard-fought battle in which visitors to the two cities will be the main winners. 
"You’ve never experienced a city like this one before,” they say. Berlin is the European city of choice for Israelis. Above and beyond bitter remembrances of expulsion and extermination, what they seek there now is, first and foremost, fun. 
Sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland, the once forbidding Russian exclave of Kaliningrad now benefits from federal money and oil revenues. Cafebabel.com reports from a city that now offers that familiar mix of Moscow trash and flash. 
It’s no happy coincidence - Eau de Cologne, or cologne, world renowned for centuries, has benefitted from the ideal geographical location of the city that gave it a name. Cafébabel reports from the town that is not just about your granny's 4711. 
Every year, tens of thousands of German secondary school graduates descend by the busload on the beaches of Southern Europe to party, now that they are done with their finals: both a bonanza and a poisoned chalice for the towns hosting these binging teens. A report from the Spanish Costa Brava. 
In 1989, after the collapse of the communist regime, Czechoslovakian buses trundled out to the four corners of Europe...and its shopping centres. Lidové Noviny remember a time of adventure galore round the corner from every car park. 
Slovakians increasingly travel to neighbouring countries where basic supermarkets items are markedly cheaper. The advent of the euro goes some way to explaining this new economic tourism, but not only.