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Happy Christmas to all our readers wherever you are in the world.

All-in-all I’d book with a competitor that does try to stimulate my interest in a holiday which is what Gibraltar, Ireland and Virgin Atlantic manage with their more direct ads!

The spontaneous reaction of many Moroccan’s in decrying the terrorist atrocity and coming out for the vigil suggests that there is anger and shame at the murders.

Edinburgh needs to decide whether it wants tourists or not.

The campaign has been re-ignited to remind us that irresponsible passenger behaviour can exist at any time with Christmas being no exception.

It is the implications of this attack that I find are the most worrying.

Should you or should you not wrap Christmas presents if you are flying out of the country?

Wherever you are going – and particularly those using Gatwick – good luck!

On Tuesday as I returned, there they were – gone! And I was £5.60 better off and a lot happier than whenever I had crosses the bridges before!

There must be attractions that don’t appeal to everybody. Stonehenge and Blackpool Tower could be two of them in which case no amount of clever marketing by the local tourist board would persuade some to travel there.

British citizens wanting to travel to EU countries will have to apply for something called an ETIAS which will cost €7 every three years.

Tomorrow, 17 December, the Fundació Miró Mallorca – the museum which honours the life and work of artist Joan Miró– will re-open the famous ‘Taller Sert’ (Sert workshop)

TUI’s annual report says that it is a “challenging environment in the traditional tour operator business” For us holidaymakers there is little clue as to what destinations will be the hot spots.

It will either be Durham Tees Valley Airport or the old name which was Teeside International Airport. You can vote

Christmas may be a little muted in the French city of Strasbourg after what seems to be another terrorist attack on a Christmas market.

The top five cities were Hong Kong, Bangkok, London, Singapore and Macao with Paris coming 6th, Dubai in 7th position, New York in 8th, Kuala Lumpur in 9th and the Chinese city of Shenzen in 10th.

It appears that tourism this year wasn’t quite as good as in 2017. Having said that it looks like growth will be up by about 5%.

Do you visit pantos for the “names” or the stalwarts who make the shows hum? It doesn’t matter as long as you enjoy them. Christmas wouldn’t be the same without visitig at least one.

Fifteen years ago Qatar was pretty much unknown. To the vast majority of holidaymakers I would say that is still the case.

Despite what trendy management gurus say, there is still a big demand for package holidays – it is just not as big as it was.

Here is a list of some of the pantomimes this festive season. The legendary Berwick Kaler make shis final appearance this season (after 40 years) at the Theatre Royal York.

Passengers walking normally through security would no longer need to take off coats and jackets, or remove personal items such as phones.

What we don’t know is whether guests actually stole these items or whether they just “walked.” That we will probably never know.

This morning I am giving you a year’s notice of what will potentially become one of the Australia’s top tourist attractions. Today booking opens for a brand new luxury holiday.

If the big companies, those with huge IT budgets cannot manage to keep our data secure should we continue to trust them with our information?

Readers may be bored if I mention it again but how can rail fares continue to rise when the service is so lamentable?

The Austrian capital city, Vienna, has campaigned in the UK (actually just London) to convince visitors to forget selfies and take fewer photos while in the city. But isn’t that what visitors do? Take pictures. Hundreds of them!

According to the flight delay compensation recovery law firm, Bott and Co, some of the UK’s biggest airlines are ignoring passengers’ flight delay compensation claims.