Travel rumblings

Next year as the World Travel Awards reach their silver anniversary maybe the organisers could remember the missing feature and the person on whom the travel industry relies for its very existence – the passenger, traveller and holidaymaker!

A country perceived as being dangerous may not be as dangerous as we think.

Mishandling the whole problem, as O’Leary sees it, seems to put question marks over Ryanair’s “Always Getting Better” programme. Is it for passengers or spin doctors?

It’s been a long, long week for Ryanair…

I suspect that there is more behind this story than meets the eye and maybe the days ahead will clarify the thinking at TfL.

The Pacific Highway in Australia is one of the most mis-named roads in the world. Its “highway” status is probably limited to no more than a couple of hundred kilometres yet the road runs for thousands of kilometres along the coast of eastern Australia.

The Australian state of NSW has been trying to promote the rural parts of the state to holidaymakers for a year or two.

As price-conscious hotels compete for our business, I am beginning to wonder if they have forgotten to consider the guest.

The dividing line between tourism related services and most other governmental expenditure is very hard to find.

According to research commissioned by the home rental business UnderTheDoormat nearly half of British adults think hotels offer poor value for money.

Surely the first thing is to establish which flights, which time of day, which airlines and which airports are involved and then apply appropriate measures.

I make no bones about it. I prefer proper books to electronic ones.

Technically it is feasible. From a practical standpoint, I don’t think the world is ready for this.

If new Ryanair planes will all sport a 32inch seat pitch, then that will be – says seatguru – three inches shorter than some of the planes they currently operate!

Passengers will accept additional security measures as necessary. What they won’t accept are delays when the authorities should have known about the likelihood of delays and planned accordingly.

Holidays can mean lots of extra stress and pressure…

No Ms Carne, you are wrong. Tourism and tourists are valuable for destinations and the tourists themselves.

If the company has less confidence in reviews then surely it is now only another online booking engine, one of many.

It goes to show that sometimes the general public can be a sandwich short of a picnic or, to put it a little bluntly, daft.

It behoves all these bodies whose role is to represent consumers to stand up and condemn fraudulent travel sickness claims and uphold the fact that they aim for “best practice” in their industries but something seems amiss.

If VivaColombia’s founder and head man, William Shaw, had his way passengers travelling on his airline could pay less by standing all the way.

I have been mulling over the implications of the case of Jon Platt, the father who took his daughter away on holiday in term time and who has fought a long and hard battle.

A glimpse into the life of a travel writer

Apparently, pesto, can be taken through customs as hand luggage even though it exceeds the 100ml limit set by the EU.

Torturous Brexit negotiations, four terrorist attacks in a month, the Grenfell Tower tragedy, a coalition of chaos… it’s time to escape for the summer, says Kaye Holland

Yet again we have a report that rehashes old ideas, presents few new ones preferring to rely on hoary old arguments instead.

Could some of charities and organisations be on the verge of competing with small, niche holiday companies?

It all goes to show that there is no standard way of deciding “best” or “worst.” Passengers will remain confused whilst so many organisations provide conflicting results.