Travel rumblings

Sunday’s announcement is a real eye-opener and one that demands change.

Reports circulating in Thailand and confirmed by the Ministry of Tourism suggest that there is a proposal being considered cash is given to tourists so that they visit less well-known places.

The headline grabbing proposal Virgin makes that every seat must be bookable on long distance services has some benefits.

Who would have thought that a skeleton of a prehistoric monster would be such a big visitor attraction?

The company says that the survey found that only 8% are booking their holidays through the same package holiday company every time and that this, demonstrated a distinct lack of brand loyalty.

At the time of my writing this, everything looks fine for overseas Easter breaks and, if there is no exiting the EU until October 31st, summer holidays should be unaffected.

The question is whether there many women artists of stature to attract huge crowds?

This was the phrase used by the president of JetBlue to describe the premium-priced airline ticket prices between London and the US cities of New York and Boston.

Over €216 million has been raised which has been channelled into 156 projects in the Balearic isles.

Yesterday was April Fools’ Day. How did the travel industry respond?

Many destinations would move heaven and earth to attract more cruise ships yet Dublin is suggesting the opposite. Is it due to tourist pollution in the centre of Dublin? No – Brexit.

If I had booked a cruise I would rather it visited the ports as advertised and which had prompted me to book it rather than re-route the vessel taking me somewhere I might not want to go?

There is one glaring omission in the Visit England awards: not a single one for customer satisfaction or service.

APD has become a useful red herring to hide behind when commercial reality shows that Ryanair has got its calculations wrong.

I will “continue with tourism promotion, not only of my beloved Mexico…”

Promoting “Visit Europe” as an idea seems a waste of €300 million that could be better spent by individual countries or areas.

Let these coffee buffs stop the problems they are causing and settle for just a simple coffee.

What is about designers? Don’t they live in the real world?

Smaller aircraft like the Dreamliner and the A-350 can now fly the routes that used to be the preserve of the jumbos.

The CMA has smacked their hands and told them not to be bad boys. The companies have said they won’t do it again and the CMA has settled for that

Sooner or later the British government and politicians from whatever party have to understand that their parliamentary shenanigans are affecting an important industry.

It is been a complete waste of time since nobody seems to have taken any notice of it at least any meaningful way.

I like the way the BBC wrote up the results of the public consultation that the council in Edinburgh undertook about its proposed £2 tax a night on hotels.

In future I should like to know that places at which I stay will be as data secure as they can be and that checks are in place to confirm that this is so.

The target of the fee is cruise passengers which, the local council and many locals argue, bring people in for the day and yet contribute little in the way of economic benefit to the city.

Wouldn’t it be better to suggest something more manageable like one or two places a year with a maximum of probably 100 things to see?

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.