Freezing Weather in Europe Affects Tourism

Transport hubs in Central and Eastern Europe have been forced to close amid the biggest freeze in decades, which has claimed more than 200 lives. According to BBC, dozens of flights were delayed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol and London’s Heathrow cancelled 30% of flights. Ukraine has been hardest hit, with at least 122 deaths over the past week, most of them homeless people.

Hundreds of heated tents have been set up around the country to provide food, drink and shelter as the country suffered temperatures as low as -38C. Poland has lost at least 45 people in temperatures as low as -27C, while Romania’s death toll has reached 28. The cold snap has also killed people in Bosnia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Italy, Slovakia, France, Austria and Greece, the AFP news agency reports.

The Italian capital Rome saw its heaviest snowfall in more than 25 years, which brought transport to a standstill and left some motorists stranded for hours. Some canals in Venice have begun to freeze over.

Source: Travel Daily News