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Tomorrowland’s double weekend is boosting tourism in Brussels, with hotels in the capital expecting a record 60,000 overnight stays during the popular techno music festival.
The Brussels government is simplifying rules for renting out a home or room on Airbnb by removing the requirement for an urban planning certificate from 1 January 2027.
Any visitor to Brussels hoping to find a map or person to tell them what to do or see in the city is heading for a disappointment.
Not only are they do they share the honour of being Belgian icons, the landmark Atomium and comic-strip heroes the Smurfs both date from 1958.
Visit.brussels will have to cut 37 staff members, or almost a quarter (23%) of its 159 employees, in the face of budget slashing from the capital’s new government.
Some 40 stately homes across the country open their doors to the public in the third edition of the Vestalia festival from 6 to 14 June.
Two hundred years after the inauguration of the Lion’s Mound, the ultimate symbol of victory of the history-changing Battle of Waterloo has undergone a €665,000 renovation project.
The Belgian coast welcomed 50,000 day-trippers and 525,000 overnight visitors over the long and sunny weekend, when temperatures climbed to 30°C.
The Visit.brussels tourist office quietly closed its information desk at the BIP on Place Royale on 3 April due to budget cuts.
