Travel news
Jan 20th, 2021 |
By The Editor
In terms of selecting a destination, 44% said that they would select a destination based on its safety in terms of the pandemic.
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Tags: AllClear travel Insurance, coronavirus safety measures, holiday safety, passenger confidence
Jan 12th, 2021 |
By The Editor
With the no-overseas travel rules in the UK and countries blocking British visitors because of the new strain, cruising seems on a backburner for another few months.
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Tags: Carnival, cruises, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, Saga Holidays
Jan 9th, 2021 |
By The Editor
From next week all passengers coming into the UK will be required to have had a negative COVID test taken within 72 hours of your arrival in the UK.
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Tags: Angola, Botswana, Common Travel Area, COVID- 19 negative tests, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Scotland entry rules, Seychelles, South Africa, UK entry rules, Welsh entry rules, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Jan 5th, 2021 |
By The Editor
With a goal of fourteen million people being vaccinated by February, will other countries allow us to travel without having had the booster jab?
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Tags: travel lockdown
Jan 1st, 2021 |
By The Editor
May 2021 be as enjoyable – and as different as possible – from 2020.
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Tags: Happy New Year
Dec 26th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Boxing Day is traditionally the day that the tour operators and airlines press the buttons on their latest campaigns.
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Tags: British Airways, easyJet holidays, Emirates, Expedia, Inspiring Travel Company, Jet2.com, Titan Travel, TUI
Dec 19th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The announcements tonight by three of the four UK governments have ended hopes for many people of a Christmas break.
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Tags: coronavirus lockdown, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, UK, Wales
Dec 5th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Heathrow will charge a fiver for drop-offs and pick-ups.
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Tags: airport drop-off/pick-up charges, Heathrow
Dec 3rd, 2020 |
By The Editor
“Our new policy will improve boarding and punctuality.” Believe that if you will.
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Tags: ancillary revenue, easyjet, hand luggage charges, Ryanair
Dec 2nd, 2020 |
By The Editor
Avanti West Coast announced that they would suspend peak travelling fares during the Christmas travel window.
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Tags: Avanti West Coast, Christmas 2020 travelling problems
Dec 1st, 2020 |
By The Editor
Tour operators and airlines still face a fight to convert the intentions of people into hard reality.
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Tags: battleface, travel intentions 2021
Nov 25th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The testing change might make it easier this end of the journey but we still have all the hurdles getting into the destinations we would like to visit.
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Tags: PCR testing, quarantine times
Nov 23rd, 2020 |
By The Editor
JetBlue has a good reputation and regularly beats the other airlines in surveys of customer satisfaction and service.
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Tags: JetBlue, low-cost Atlantic travel
Nov 17th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The significance is that the airline doesn’t see any upturn in air travel in the early part of the year.
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Tags: coronavirus impact, easyjet, flight forecasts, holiday forecasts 2021, Ryanair
Nov 16th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Many of us will have made countless telephone calls, queued at airports and generally made nuisances of ourselves in an attempt to get a seat on a flight home.
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Tags: International Code for the Protection of Tourists, UNWTO
Nov 15th, 2020 |
By The Editor
On Friday, news broke that John Hays, one of the best known names in travel, had suddenly died
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Tags: Hays Travel, Irene Hays, John Hays, Sunderland, Thomas Cook
Nov 12th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Now people in the south west will see the service and solid customer satisfaction levels for which the airline and holiday company has become well known
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Comments Off on Bristol Airport must be cock-a-hoop
Tags: Bristol Airport, Cardiff Airport, Jet 2, Jet 2 Holidays, TUI
Nov 9th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Up until yesterday you might have guessed that at some time in 2021 there would be a small increase in holiday numbers.
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Tags: coronavirus vaccine, PCR testing, Pfizer, World Travel Market
Nov 9th, 2020 |
By The Editor
the concern of voters wherever they live seems to be growing and the cruise industry needs to come to terms with a change in the air.
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Tags: Key West, limits on cruise ship travel, Sydney, Venice
Nov 1st, 2020 |
By The Editor
Will December be a dawning of a travel age or just more of the same?
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Comments Off on Who knows?
Tags: coronavirus lockdowns. winter 2020 ski season, winter sun holidays 2020/2021
Oct 30th, 2020 |
By The Editor
As AllClear point out, “consumers need simpler, clearer guidance” and that has not been the case for much of the time.
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Tags: AllClear, FCDO, travel advisories
Oct 26th, 2020 |
By The Editor
International holidays continue to blow domestic getaways out of the water… putting promises that the UK could become a “staycation nation
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Tags: IATA, lastminute.com, Overseas Holidays, staycations, TUI
Oct 21st, 2020 |
By The Editor
Passengers could pay the money across and find they will still not gain entry.
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Tags: antibody testing, antigen testing, Heathrow, Italy, PCR testing
Oct 16th, 2020 |
By The Editor
This will be the last weekly update on holiday possibilities just because it is looks irrelevant for the foreseeable future.
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Comments Off on Weekly holiday review: 16th October 2020
Tags: Antigua and Barbuda, Cape Verde, Crete, France, Germany, Italy, Jamaica, Latvia, Mykonos, Slovenia, South Korea
Oct 14th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The annual prize has been a muted affair this year with probably very few people even aware that it was still running.
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Tags: Aberdeen Art Gallery, Art Fund, Gairloch Museum, Science Museum, South London Gallery, Towner - Eastbourne
Oct 9th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Following is news from some destinations Britons and Irish visit Cyprus – The authorities in the north of Cyprus are allowing arrivals from the UK. You must show a negative COVID-19 PCR test result (done between 0 – 120 hours prior to the time of the flight) on arrival. You must then enter authority-assigned quarantine facilities for 7 days. A second PCR test will be carried out at the end of the quarantine period. All travellers should be aware that if other passengers on your
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Tags: Cyprus., Czech Republic, Denmark, Faroe Islands, France, Italy, Latvia, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, South Africa, St Vincent and the Grenadines
Oct 7th, 2020 |
By The Editor
At present the airport – and all airports – ought to dreaming up ideas to encourage us to use them not trying to drive us away.
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Tags: airport drop-off charges, Gatwick
Oct 4th, 2020 |
By The Editor
There are thousands of Victorian buildings, and thousands more of buildings from previous times but are they worth saving?
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Tags: heritage buildings at risk, Victorian Society