Travel news

I was drawn to a competition being run by the Camping and Caravanning Club where the price was a £49,000 Swift Edge motorhome complete with thirty nights camping

If these are ultimate wishes then more easily found wishes are likely to be found from the 200 or so travel companies exhibiting at Manchester.

Today might reveal whether I have been wrong over the years and that the exchequer will agree to remove the tax without having a revenue source to replace it!

Flybe fulfils more of a role than just being an airline. It is a transport link. And that is going to have to make the government think hard about whether it should step in.

Over a third of those in the 18-24 age group claimed that their choice to book a staycation was due to Brexit.

Those that only deal with the company at Travelex implant stores at airports and on the high street are unaffected.

Jet2.com was the UK’s most punctual airline in eight of the eleven available monthly OAG reports in 2019.

The government has decided that if an airline goes bust those airline passengers trapped abroad will be repatriated to the UK in the same manner that those who were ATOL bonded have been.

The CAA is concerned that the airport might move the burden for paying for this cost by charging passengers

Some reasons for holidaying in the same place more than once might surprise a few destinations which think that local charms should be enough to lure us there!

Today there are any number of light shows that you can visit during the darker nights of autumn and winter.

If the FAA has been slipshod in its monitoring of the Max, can we really trust it on other planes that it certifies?

From tomorrow morning there will be a strike which will cover all means of transport to and within France.

The fallout from the collapse of Thomas Cook keeps on coming.

Admittedly, tourism and travel won’t be a major issue in this election – when is it ever – but here is what the parties say about tourism

Tourism and panto go together. The pull for aduts and children takes them out and into nearby – or even not so nearby – places

Scotrail has decided to convert some carriages on five trains to be able to carry up to twenty bicycles at a time.

Scoring the top tourist attractions in the world is always going to be a thankless task.

Much more interesting than the Engine study is that by Awario which aseesses customer satisfc ation in a non-traditional way.

Is O’Leary thinking that cheap fares will overcome any doubts passengers have about the Boeing 737 Max?

Buses are a significant means by which visitors get the opportunity to visit places that are inaccessible by trains.

The much anticipated exhibition Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh opens today in the Saatchi Gallery. Presented in London by Viking Cruises, the exhibition will display more than 150 pieces from Tutankhamun’s tomb – with 60 on their first journey outside Egypt – until May 3, 2020. Then the treasures will return to Cairo to be permanently housed with Tutankhamun’s full collection at the Grand Egyptian Museum which is currently under construction.  The legend of Tutankhamun captured imaginations globally when, in 1922 his tomb was unearthed
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In another decade, who can say whether the seven or fourteen day holiday will still be even available as more of our holiday habits change?

More to the point, will UK and other European airlines copy Delta’s move?

Saying that 95% do recognise that London is the capital is to put a positive spin on what surely every child should know?

It emerged this morning that John and Irene Hays, the founders and owners of the independent travel agency chain, Hays Travel, has bought all 555 Thomas Cook shops from the receivers.

Today almost the last of the Thomas Cook holidaymakers that were left in their resorts after the company’s collapse arrived home

If parliamentarians take such little notice of customer service (other than in individual speeches) to support a committee is it any wonder that industry at large takes just lip-service about it?