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Businesswoman Jamie McCourt has been nominated by US President Donald Trump to become the new US ambassador to France. It was declared by the White House on Wednesday. The nomination is remarkable for the fact that the president has already announced his intention to appoint McCourt as US ambassador to Belgium. The proposal to nominate […]

The 4G coverage in Belgium has improved significantly in the last three years, writes TechPulse. In Wallonia, there are there some areas that still only support outdated 3G technology, according to the FPS Economy’s Information Society Index, which maps changes in the Belgian information society annually. The index reveals Belgium’s digital strengths and weaknesses and […]

This summer Brussels hotels, museums and tourist attractions in the capital have more visitors than in past years. The tourism sector appears to have rebounded from 2016, when tourist numbers took a nose dive following the March terror attacks. According to the Brussels Hotel Association (BHA), the 70% occupancy rate for the month of July […]

Brussels has launched the regional portal website opendatastore.brussels with cultural agenda of the Brussels-Capital Region The project is a collaboration between the Brussels Regional Informatics Centre and tourism information desk visit.brussels. For the website agenda.brussels, visit.brussels collects more than 20,000 events, exhibitions and concerts annually. The information has now been made available as open data […]

Next month Belgium will start building of an artificial reef at the Belgian coast in De Panne. Only natural materials will be used for the 100-square-metre test project, including mussels, tube worms and seaweed. The idea is to see how well it protects the coast from erosion that is caused by heavy storms. On Thursday […]

Tomorrowland music festival has started on Friday and Brussels Airlines has launched new ‘party flights’ concept, just in time for the festival. Specially painted plane Amare was used for this occasion. In total, Brussels Airlines brought more than 10,000 passengers to Belgium for this year’s festival, via 236 flights from 79 cities. It is not […]

There’s no better place to spend hot summer days than at the Belgian coast. Up to 400,000 visitors are going to attend Belgian coast during Belgian national holiday weekend Tourist office Westtoer says hotels by the seaside have reported a 95% occupancy rate this weekend – with the hope of further last-minute bookings if the […]

Management of Brussels Airport have reported that Airport served a record number of passengers in the first half of this year 11.55 million people used Zaventem terminal between January and June of this year and it’s up 6.3% compared with the same period in 2015. “This is an absolute record,” the airport said in a […]

€42.4 million will be funded for thirteen of Brussels’ 19 communes to improve public spaces, sports and cultural facilities by 2020. The money will go towards 70 projects and has been distributed among the municipalities based on population figures, average income levels, unemployment rate and the age of existing infrastructure. In the past, only seven […]