Spotlight
When will we travel again?
The new advice is that any travel is advised against for an indeterminate time.
“I am tourism. I am hurt at the moment”
By The Editor
Here is the whole letter, rather plaintive but beautifully written that sums up what tourism is and means and how we are all hurting since we cannot be tourists today.
Don’t travel abroad
By The Editor
What this means is that if you do travel, your insurance policy will almost certainly be invalid and you will not be able to claim on it.
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The economic impact of the shutdown
By The Editor
The closure of so many attractions and events will have a severe economic impact on destinations, local economies and people.
What next?
By The Editor
Mass media is carrying pictures this morning of busy beaches at Bournemouth and people in groups walking up Snowden.
A St Patrick’s Day like no other
By The Editor
Whilst today is St Patrick’s Day it will be quite like any other St Patrick’s Day I have ever known.
Who’d be a travel writer!
By The Editor
It isn’t easy to travel overseas at the moment because all of the popular places have restrictions either on travelling there or because, museums, attractions and galleries have been temporarily closed.
Planning for the future
By The Editor
Have these bookers second sight and know when this outbreak will cease or they are among life’s optimists?
Suspension of our events’ listings
By The Editor
For the foreseeable future – however long that is – we are suspending our events’ column.
A spot of optimism
By The Editor
For travellers and holidaymakers there isn’t a lot of good news at the moment so when any comes our way it behoves us to pass it on.
Check what the Foreign Offfice says
By The Editor
Because of the coronavirus, governments are responding almost on a daily basis so travellers and holidaymakers about to depart need to look daily at what the FCO
Going for a walk
By The Editor
One opportunity widely available to us is to venture into our parks, (although some are closed) open-air spaces and gardens whcih are beginning to burst with new growth.
Holidays in the open air
By The Editor
Walking holidays in the UK, camping, caravanning or taking a mobile home and seeing parts that you’ve not seen before would appear to be the answer for a break.
Direct to the Faroe Islands
By The Editor
As from June 23rd, Atlantic Airways, the Faroese national carrier, will fly direct from Gatwick to Vágar Airport.
Vamos Valencia
By Kaye Holland
Spain’s third city should be your next city break says Kaye Holland
The economic impact of the shutdown
By The Editor
The closure of so many attractions and events will have a severe economic impact on destinations, local economies and people.
On day one of the lockdown
By The Editor
Could it be that Italy has seen the peak? If so ours might be just thirteen days away.
Gold winners from Visit England
By The Editor
Whilst some of these places have open-air facilities, not all are open due to coronavirus so check if you are planning a visit in the next few weeks.
Who’d work for an airline?
By The Editor
Matt’s cartoon on the front page of today’s Telegraph, as one might expect of a master of comic commentary, juxtaposes the current coronavirus crisis with the other crisis of our times – climate change.
