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At 2am UK time today the end finally came. The board of Thomas Cook called in the liquidators. The oldest tour operating company in the world had ceased business.

By mentioning the name of the company aren’t I just contributing to the doubts that any readers may have about buying a holiday from them?

Where the Japanese have been clever is that by picking some cities westerners might not know they are widening the knowledge to foreigners about what to see and do.

Thomas Cook Rewards is a scheme whereby customers can earn cash rewards on spending on groceries or clothes which can then be used to go towards their next holiday.

ABTA has launched a campaign on radio and social media to reassure holidaymakers and travellers that flights, ferries and trains will still operate even in the event of a no-deal exit on October 31.

The CMA said that it will be watching to make sure that these major brands stay true to their word.

This year I am pretty sure the promotion has run its course and most readers will find the time restrictions on when you can or cannot travel as being off-putting.

Another way of helping is by continuing to consider holidaying in the Bahamas.

Under the directive, all transactions over £28 must have two-stage authentication. As just about every travel product costs more than that, holidaymakers and travellers will be one of the first groups affected.

Heathrow Pause is treading a fine line. Just one plane crash would remove that any sympathy the group has.

If cinnamon and nutmeg were the reasons that the island of Grenada got its reputation as the spice island of the Caribbean then tourism might be the reason why it thrives in the twenty-first century.

When oh when will we get a minister who knows something of tourism and iwho will stay in the job for a couple of years so that they become of use to the tourism industry?

Last Sunday, Paul Chan, the Financial Secretary for Hong Kong wrote that visitor numbers in August were down by 40% compared to the same time last year.

Reader then beware! As those financial ads say – look at the small print – or, in this case, look to see if the methodology is explained.

More convenient for Britons is Stuttgart and ideal for a city or short break. It also has links with Bauhaus.

No, this isn’t a story about the Loch Ness monster recommending a TripAdvisor rating but you are close.

Both the plane and the ground work in little cocoons. Breaking that, said Gaense, will lead to more personalisation than is currently available.

UK airlines will still be able to operate flights between the UK and the EU until at least October 2020.

Swap seats with someone and it doesn’t matter. Your password is unique to you so the content you receive is tailored to you.

For those who say that the organisation is just being humorous, potentially scaring people about flying is not humorous

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The biggest group of those arrested was at Heathrow which might be explained away by the fact that it is our largest passenger carrier airport with 80 million passengers.

Flight bookings up until 31 July for departures in the next six months (between August 2019 and January 2020) from the UK indicate that key growth destinations include Ecuador (up 25.1%), Dominican Republic (24.1%), Costa Rica (20.3%) and Chile. (8.3%.)

In North America they have launched the Indy Pass which is multi-resort ski pass covering 34 independently owned resorts across the continent.

In Paris the deputy mayor wants to ban tour coaches. In Saudi a theme park is planned and in australia, the Great Barrier Reef’s long term outlook has been downgraded.

Those people with more experience of flying – in this case people who have flown in the last ten years – are almost twice as likely to say that flying is getting better rather than worse.

Uganda has 54% of the population of mountain gorillas most living in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Mgahinga in southwestern Uganda.

Thomas Cook had agreed that its largest shareholder, the Chinese company Fosun would take over the company. What does it mean for holidaymakers?