Rocky Mountaineer has announced the company’s international sales teams in Australia, the UK and China will be aligned under the newly created role of Managing Director, Sales – International.

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) and the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) will expand their ‘Flugzug’ (‘airtrain’) rail services, which currently operate between Zurich Airport and the SBB stations in Basel and Lugano, to further routes in the course of next year. The focus will be on connecting other major Swiss cities and tourist destinations with the SWISS route network.

Rail Europe has announced its €500 million revenue target for the next two years, in a push to strengthen its position as the number-one global provider of European train tickets. The company is backed by 80 years of experience and e-voyagers, SCNF.

South Africa’s The Blue Train has announced two unique departures in 2020 that will include an entire day exploring Kruger National Park as part of the three-day journey.

Tauck has added a new eight-day European itinerary to its product line-up in 2020 that includes a three-night rail journey on The Golden Eagle Danube Express, bookended by two-night stays in Vienna and Milan.

Irish chef, cookbook author and broadcaster Clodagh McKenna has been named as the host and curator of a two-night “Taste of Ireland” journey aboard the Belmond Grand Hibernian, departing on 28 September 2019.

Belmond has revealed it will create three new Grand Suites for the legendary Venice Simplon-Orient-Express for the 2020 season. The new suites, Vienna, Prague and Budapest, are named after iconic European cities the train travels to every year.

The hotly anticipated annual Swiss Travel Pass SuperStar Program has kicked off and will run for three months ending 27 September, 2019.

Rocky Mountaineer is abandoning its tourist rail service between Seattle and Vancouver in 2020 due to underwhelming patronage.

Eurostar marked the introduction of a third daily service between London and Amsterdam on 12 June, ahead of the opening Van Gogh’s sunflower exhibition in the Dutch city on 21 June.

Railbookers is offering a unique new Around the World by Rail holiday, encompassing the USA, Europe, Russia, Mongolia, China and Australia.

Rocky Mountaineer is set to add seven newly built GoldLeaf Service rail cars on its Western Canadian rail routes for the 2019 season. The world’s largest privately owned luxury train company will add four rail cars to its fleet in April, with three additional cars coming later in the season. The bi-level rail cars feature oversized glass-dome windows and a separate dining area for guests traveling through the Canadian Rockies.