Travel news

In a busy week, a beaututiful garden re-opens in Spain, a museum in London is open for just tomorrow and yet more news about travel insurance fraud.

The government announced that there will be a Travel Protection Bill which, it says, will improve protection for holidaymakers by updating the UK’s financial protection scheme for holidays.

Apart from the fact that heritage railways are popular in their own right, a link to the Harry Potter stories makes them doubly interesting as visitor attractions so the railway is celebrating the anniversary as well.

In the week that roaming charges ended in EU countries, Adrian also wonders if APD in Northern Ireland might end soon.

Dublin Airport has now become the biggest economic powerhouse in the whole of Ireland.

Maybe the evidence from TUI and Travelodge just shows that we are unsure about the future. As are the tour operators and, incidentally, the politicians!

Ireland and the USA are seeking more British holidaymakers. Would you consider a summer holiday there?

The awards are the idea of Pembrokeshire Tourism and Burns Pet Nutrition and reward those organisations in Pembrokeshire, a county where tourism and staycations have a more than average importance.

Tourism will not win or lose elections nor will it ignite passions in the hearts of politicians so that they will refuse to join a government or bring it down.

About four years ago I wrote a story about the fad of travel stories being based on choosing only the top five or top ten ideas. My objection was that I wanted to know what was number six or number eleven because those were the ones that people wouldn’t see so there would be fewer crowds around. There is the other extreme. It was fashionable a decade ago to wrote books about 1,000 places to see before you die. They can still be seen in
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To suggest that householders are discriminating whether it be blatantly or unintentionally is galling and insulting to the vast majority of people who place their accommodation for others to rent.

Britons seem to be holidaying further afield. Peru, Costa Rica and Nicaragua all saw more British visitors. And in a week where airline customer service has been to the fore, Adrian has some stories about our rights.

Volunteers’ Week started on June the 1st and the purpose is to celebrate the difference volunteers make to every community across the country! Just about Travel salutes you

It is claimed that the world’s largest gathering of traditional river craft will be at Henley on Thames this year at the Trad – Thames Traditional Boat Festival. It will over the weekend starting Friday, the 14 of July.

There has been a lot of news lately about the unfounded claims about illness whilst on holiday made by some people. Now, one hotel in Crete is counter-suing a couple.

On the bank holiday weekend, there are thousands of events on including the Great Manchester Run which will have a poignant feel to it this year.

It looks as though all-inclusive holidays are not good value for many people who take them because they spend unnecessarily and they would probably be better off by booking an ordinary holiday rather than an all-inclusive one.

Last year saw more Britons travel aboard for over ten years.And more holidayed at home making 2016 a bumper year for travel.

Considering that we have one of the foremost literary gatherings in the world and a heritage of writers going back 1,500 years (it seems an omission that no writers museum exists comparable to that opening in Chicago today.

This survey says that, overall, Brits rate themselves only as a mildly intrepid. The Scots are the bravest Brits (46%, compared to 33% of English 36% of Welsh, and 11% of Northern Irish respondents.

As the Luther Trail opens in Germany is is both National Ferry Fortnight and Welsh Tourism Week. To top it off, seasiding is coming to the fore!

How can you tell if you are an MBT? Here are the top twenty attributes of being one.

As chief executive of Amsterdam Marketing, Frans van der Avert claimsthat cities are dying because no-one will living in the historic centres of cities anymore.

Adrian ends the week happy that a Rubbish Party candidate was elected in Scotland, more hold baggage is not getting lost on planes and that private detectives are deterring touts from advising holidaymakers to make bogus insurance claims.

In an intriguing survey by MSC Cruises, it transpires that many of us have not been telling the truth about where we have holidayed or travelled. It says that 21% have fibbed about where they have been in the world – with New Zealand, New York, Australia and Rome emerging as popular places we’ve never been to. The survey also considered claims about books that have never been read, foods they claim to have eaten as well as plays and films they have seen. In
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From June 1st, Botswana will introduce a Tourism Development Levy on all visitors coming from outside SADC countries.

In order to stop this fraud, the penalties need to be something that will hit perpetrators where it hurts and that might be in their ability to travel.

A museum of ice-cream, another about Dr Seuss, Bexit, being a gin ambassador and new flights to Russia attract Adrian’s attention this week.