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The tourism is going to grow for the whole year 2016 Domestic tourism has grown much more in 2015 than it was expected. According to the estimation, there were more than one million more tourists coming to Czech than how many were predicted by the CzechTourism agency. There were eight …

Number of passengers increases, hotelkeepers ease the euphoria Passengers‘ interest in the Moscow – Prague airline is rising again after last year’s downturn. This is evident in the latest statistics from the Prague Airport, which were collected in the end of February 2016. Nevertheless, the hotelkeepers stay careful, because the …

Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic, invites visitors to a range of exciting Easter events. The annual Easter markets which take place on three of Prague´s most famous squares – Old Town Square, Wenceslas Square and the Square of the Republic – are the most popular of them …

According to the view of legal interpretation, Uber or its drivers are violating the Road Transport Act, Trade Act and the Civil Code in the Czech Republic. The Magistrate of Prague is leading several administrative procedures against them. However, the managers of Uber are not worried: they say they aren’t …

The taxi drivers will most likely lose one of their most advantageous “stepladders”. The government of the capital wants to prohibit them from entering Pařížská Street and the Old Town Square. That is one of the riskiest spots – the taxi drivers pick up tourists there and often charge them …

More than a quarter of the accommodation in the Czech Republic takes place in private due to dedicated web portals, and this fraction continues to grow rapidly. For the state, it means the risk of tax evasion. The price of a room for two people in a three-star guest house …

By 2025, the transport company must build lifts in nineteen metro stations. It does not have the money yet. More than 100,000 suitcases have already been carried by porters from the station hall of the Nádraží Veleslavín Station to the bus stop of the same name during 2015. And their …

The editors of the newspaper MF DNES, along with magistrate officials, conducted checks of taxi drivers on 26 January 2016 at night. Eleven out of the fifteen tested drivers cheated. At first glance, it seems that the situation in Prague is getting worse instead of improving despite all the different …

The ill-famed taxi driver Aleš R., a member of the gang from around the Prague Ruzyně Airport, attacked in August 2011 again. This time there were no pleasantries and he beat his client, who refused to pay CZK 500 for a journey of less than four km. It is the …

It cost billions of crowns but there was not enough money for an escalator? This question will come to mind of the passengers at the metro station Veleslavín, who will need to change from subway to an airport-bound bus. In the area where we can expect constant movement of people …