Travel rumblings

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.

In the words of the ETC, “a weakened pound failed to deter British holidaymakers to travel internationally.”

In all, over half of all of us drink more than a pint before we fly and not far short of a quarter of us drink over three pints and then fly.

This morning the Sunday Mirror carried a story of the discovery by an unemployed man of a USB stick containing documents about Heathrow’s security may be alarming for passengers.

Just about Travel has commented about the problems with hotel comparison website, welcomes the CMA investigation and urges readers to submot comments to the CMA.

My problem is that having known about the potential problems with lithium batteries before why haven’t aerospace safety agencies carried out this testing before?

Airbnb has signed a deal with a property developer for Airbnb branded sites. Is it now becomein a property developer? Or a quasi-hotelier?

Tourism figures for the first 6 months of 2017 grew by 6% compared to the same period last year.

It appears that visitors don’t bother to clean up after their dogs but take the attitude that because they are away from home they can treat the countryside and beaches as though it was someone else’s responsibility.

In the light of the Which Holiday? report, is it time for the CAA to do spot checks on those who are ATOL bonded to compile its own statistics on how companies train their staff?

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.