Travel/Tourism news & information for Basque Country

PROPERTY prices, housing quality, healthcare and education, living costs and the job market are among the factors that determine where the happiest locations in Spain are, according to research by a leading national...

MADRID'S Adolfo Suárez-Barajas airport has been named number one in Europe in terms of services, efficiency, complaints handling, and quality of its shops and restaurants, and Bilbao airport has come second.

ONE THING is for everyone who visits your town, province or country to tell everyone else how wonderful it is and to give it lots of stars on TripAdvisor, but quite another is when the European Union itself endorses a...

SET A TOURIST to catch a tourist is, in these days of social media and online reviews, a holiday destination's best marketing strategy – although a few million euros' worth of publicity helps, too.

CLEAN AIR is an underrated commodity, but one that keeps rural tourism en vogue and goes hand in hand with the war on climate change – as well as CO2 and NOx emissions trapping heat into the earth's atmosphere,...

SOME restrictions are expected to continue in place even after Spain's 'State of Alarm' ends on Sunday, May 9, but in most cases, those limiting freedom of movement and trade will be considerably relaxed or...

A 'QUALITY of life' survey among residents in Spain's biggest cities shows attitudes have changed since the start of the pandemic, according to national consumer organisation OCU, which conducted the...

'WINDSWEPT' might be a way of describing one of Spain's oddest-looking beaches, or perhaps 'ploughed' – but the Sakoneta, as well as a photographer's and social media-user's dream, is also...

IS THERE anywhere in Spain that can compare to the volcanic Lord Howe Island with its gigantic coral reefs, the vast tundras and mountain wilderness of Alaska's Katmai National Park, the Caribbean paradise of...

A BEACH in the Basque Country has been voted the sixth-best in the world, beating others in the Seychelles, Sydney and Cape Verde, whilst Madrid's El Prado art museum has squeezed into the global top 10, according...