Travel rumblings

Overall AirHelp says that passengers – not just Americans – are owed more than €5 billion by airlines, a staggering sum.

Scottish Tourism Month just seems a handy title to hang a number of trade meetings around and nothing more.

Ex-Londoners complain that life in the capital circa 2018 is getting worse but Kaye Holland is hooked and hopes never to leave

Yesterday it was announced that Ryanair was pulling the vast majority of its flights from Glasgow Airport. Instead of there being 23 flights from the airport there would be just three – to Dublin, Wroclaw and Krakow.

As train passenger numbers grow, railway companies will have to more flexible.

Day-trips are important tourism opportunities and the withdrawal of services will lessen the opportunity for both us and overseas visitors to explore parts of the UK.

Deidre Wells, the boss of UK Inbound, drew attention to a feature that Just about Travel moaned about nearly four years ago. She said that more should be done to improve north-south links.

A bit more clarity on behalf of travel insurers would help and reduce the number of claims being made.

If I was a local attraction or tour provider I would be miffed if my brochures were closeted next to a wall and unable to be seen by anyone. Having paid for a display I would want them to be displayed.

Next week the hotel will be used by the company to hand out awards. Is there one for Worst Way to Look after Guests?

Will Luigi Brugnaro examine the whole business of restaurant charging rather than this one incident? All it does is give Venice a bad name.

If pushed, and only if pushed, I will admit to others that I am a travel writer.

Before any city seriously considers an accommodation tax, the fairness of it and the effect on both tourism and locals needs to be assessed.

The time has come for air passengers to be treated like those who buy holidays and for them to be provided with protection.

This is the time of the year when railway companies introduce their promotions like Club 55 to encourage us to fill those empty seats on trains.

Monday January 15th is a red-letter day for international travellers and it is now just one week away.

For many years it has been known that business travellers will relax on their business trip and possibly visit a gallery, a museum, the theatre or even undertake a two- hour tour of their destination.

Did the EU issue this “clarification” because it felt that such discussions aren’t progressing and it was a spur to start the ball rolling?

There is a mismatch between the popular myths and the reality, when it comes to the Cayman Islands

Why is it that seemingly every year a winter attractions is closed because it cannot deliver?

Sarah tells the story of a 2.5 hour flight that lasted eleven hours. And all because Heathrow was full

Now that Coventry has been awarded the title what impact can the award bring to the city?

From January rail fares will go up by 3.4% except we all know that isn’t the real story. Some will rise by more and some by less.

More and more I am getting the feeling that some airlines would rather I took my business elsewhere.

Too often the promotion by destinations is centred on one place. What about the rest of us?

The Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and the council decided not to allow the Christmas market on the Champs-Élysées this year claiming that it was tacky and overpriced.

Brexit means we leave the EU in 2019. So why did five UK cities think that they could enter the European Capital of Culture 2023 competition?

If the role of a tourism minister is to promote tourism and to be seen to promote it, it is time that they left their offices one in a while and started some PR offensives like Mr Balala did.