Service industries

Ljubljana – Having completed the takeover of Serbian bank Komercijalna Banka, Slovenia’s largest bank, NLB, will start eyeing potential new acquisition opportunities next year with CEO Blaž Brodnjak offering Albania as one potential new market.

Gunfire broke out in a metro train carriage at the Sofia metro Airport station.

Several teams of police and emergency services have been sent to the scene.

If you choose to travel in these uncertain times, you should be prepared to deal with everything that stems from this uncertainty.

The ongoing pandemic has changed the way we travel (if we travel at all) and the way we're booking our vacations.

Bulgarian airports of Varna and Burgas became the first in the country to be awarded health accreditation by the International Airport Council, according to the press office of the operator Fraport Twin Star Airport Management AD.

Almost a third of the world's destinations are currently completely closed to international tourists because of the pandemic, the UN tourism body said.

Britons eager to travel amid promising vaccination efforts against the coronavirus are expected to visit one of their favorite destinations - Turkey. 

"Last year, Turkey's tourism sector saw a fall in tourist demand from the EU, but the UK remained out of this picture," Firuz Bağlıkaya, the head of the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies (TÜRSAB), said Monday.

Women are putting their mark on Istanbul's public transportation, as the number of women drivers working at the Istanbul Metro has risen to 99 out of the total 772.

Carrying commuters all day and working underground in different shifts, women metro drivers strictly oppose being called "vatman," a word of French origin, which means tram drivers, representing male workers.

Brnik/Ljubljana – Some 180 passengers are due to fry to Tenerife from Slovenia’s main international airporton Sunday, as the first charter flight this year is to be operated from Ljubljana airport by Croatian air carrier Trade Air. Slovenian tour operators say that despite the coronavirus pandemic, interest in tourist travel is increasing.

As he says, it was not done because there is a huge pressure from the public - people who live from the work of winter centers and the population that wants to return to normal life before the pandemic, because all this is taking too long.

German logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL Group will continue its strong growth in Turkey, its CEO has said.