Travel tips & opinions

Having an October bank holiday and calling it NHS Day would be a worthy celebration of the achievements of key workers during the pandemic

Airlines seem to been on the same wavelength about how to get us to fly again. Deep-cleaning and deeply-discounted fares

Like the seventh cavalry in old western black and white films, the EU rode up to try and save the tourism industry from a summer of desolation.

With over 170 heritage rail groups in the UK, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, the concern is that they might not survive coronavirus

At present cruising is as dead as the rest of the tourism and travel industry.

What it really means is that it indicates the airline bosses see a contraction in business for quite a period and not just a few months.

Supposing it takes another year or eighteen months to develop and effective vaccine, how can railways and tram networks survive?

How can they survive unless and until a successful vaccine is produced? Will holidaymakers want to travel in such a small space with other people?

Travel companies are between a rock and a hard place. To obey the law will cripple some. Not to obey will lose loyal customers from future bookings and possibly cause their collapse.

Airports have to confront the question of how they will deal with passengers when the lockdown is eased.

Airlines may not survive if they have to wait for an effective vaccine to be introduced before they can allow 180 to 500 people to sit in a metal tube for hours on end.

Yesterday easyJet announced that, as a temporary measure, they would leave the middle seat empty on the planes so that some form of social distancing was possible.

Airport owners will all be crystal-ball gazing at what the future will bring.

Many people, I suspect, will be cautious this year and that applies to wherever you live in the world.

The new advice is that any travel is advised against for an indeterminate time.

The closure of so many attractions and events will have a severe economic impact on destinations, local economies and people.

Could it be that Italy has seen the peak? If so ours might be just thirteen days away.

Whilst some of these places have open-air facilities, not all are open due to coronavirus so check if you are planning a visit in the next few weeks.

What this means is that if you do travel, your insurance policy will almost certainly be invalid and you will not be able to claim on it.

Matt’s cartoon on the front page of today’s Telegraph, as one might expect of a master of comic commentary, juxtaposes the current coronavirus crisis with the other crisis of our times – climate change.

How to self isolate successfully

On International Women’s Day, Kaye Holland says that every woman should travel alone at least once

Today is World Book Day and one of our most-well-known travel writers, Jan Morris, has a new book out

Just About Travel tells you what’s hot (and what’s not) in the travel world right now

All in all, it isn’t a good time if you are in the travel industry. But it isn’t a good time for holidaymakers and travellers

If you go on holiday and are subject to restrictions because of coronavirus and miss your return flight through no fault of your own you airline has a duty of care

The travel industry would dearly love to know if the coronavirus is affecting your holiday thinking. afternoon!

I used to take one teabag for each day I was away. This survey doesn’t say how much tea people were taking with them