Travel tips & opinions
May 25th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Having an October bank holiday and calling it NHS Day would be a worthy celebration of the achievements of key workers during the pandemic
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Tags: bank holiday, key workers, NHS, NHS Day, October bank holiday
May 21st, 2020 |
By The Editor
Airlines seem to been on the same wavelength about how to get us to fly again. Deep-cleaning and deeply-discounted fares
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Tags: easyjet, pos-coronavirus flying, Qantas, Ryanair
May 15th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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.
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Tags: loosening lockdowns in the EU
May 6th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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
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Tags: Bluebell Railway, coronavirus, heritage railways, Nene Valley railway, Severn Valley Railway, Talyllyn Railway, West Somerset Railway
May 2nd, 2020 |
By The Editor
At present cruising is as dead as the rest of the tourism and travel industry.
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Tags: coronavirus, Cruising, destination acceptance of cruise ships, social distancing on cruise ships
Apr 30th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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.
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Tags: Alex Cruz, British Airways, coronavirus, future international air travel, IAG, Willie Walsh
Apr 27th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Supposing it takes another year or eighteen months to develop and effective vaccine, how can railways and tram networks survive?
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Tags: caronavirus, Catherine Guillouard, rail travel, social distancing on trains
Apr 26th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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?
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Tags: coach holidays, coronavirus, escorted holidays, touring holidays
Apr 22nd, 2020 |
By The Editor
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.
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Tags: airline cancellation rights, ATOL, EU261, holiday cancellation rights
Apr 19th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Airports have to confront the question of how they will deal with passengers when the lockdown is eased.
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Tags: airport social distancing, Airports, coronavirus, protecting airport staff
Apr 18th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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.
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Tags: airline design, cabin crew safety, coronavirus, passenger safety
Apr 17th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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.
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Tags: easyjet, flights after caronavirus, social distancing on planes
Apr 15th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Airport owners will all be crystal-ball gazing at what the future will bring.
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Tags: ACI, Airports, George Best Belfast City Airport, Prestwick Airport, Southampton Airport
Apr 14th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Many people, I suspect, will be cautious this year and that applies to wherever you live in the world.
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Tags: EU, holidays in Europe 2020, Ursula von der Leyen
Apr 6th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The new advice is that any travel is advised against for an indeterminate time.
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Tags: coronavirus, FCO, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Summer holidays 2020
Mar 25th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The closure of so many attractions and events will have a severe economic impact on destinations, local economies and people.
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Tags: Australia, economic impact of tourism, NSW, Sydney, Vivid Sydney
Mar 24th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Could it be that Italy has seen the peak? If so ours might be just thirteen days away.
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Tags: coronavirus, lockdown
Mar 20th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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.
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Tags: Chatsworth, Heights of Abraham, Holkham Hall, Visit England
Mar 17th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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.
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Tags: coronavirus, Foreign & Commonwealth Office Travel Advice, travel advisories, travel insurance
Mar 13th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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.
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Tags: Climate Change, coronavirus, cruise companies, Matt, The Telegraph
Mar 10th, 2020 |
By Kaye Holland
How to self isolate successfully
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Tags: coronavirus, Italy, London, remote working, Taiwan, Thailand
Mar 8th, 2020 |
By Kaye Holland
On International Women’s Day, Kaye Holland says that every woman should travel alone at least once
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Tags: adventure, Argentina, China, female travel, Freya Stark, Going Solo, Middle East, solo travel, solo travellers, South Pacific, surfing, tango, women
Mar 5th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Today is World Book Day and one of our most-well-known travel writers, Jan Morris, has a new book out
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Tags: "Thinking Again", Jan Morris, travel writing
Mar 1st, 2020 |
By Kaye Holland
Just About Travel tells you what’s hot (and what’s not) in the travel world right now
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Tags: Airlie Beach, Australia, Austria, caffeine, California, Celebrity Apex, Easter, football, Great Barrier Reef, Hamilton Island, Holy Week, Italy, Madrid, Munich, Seville, solo travel, solo travellers, spain, Vienna
Feb 29th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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
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Comments Off on Decisions, decisions, decisions.
Tags: Berlin, British Airways, coronavirus, easyjet, Geneva Motor Show, Germany, ITB, Nice, switzerland, Venice
Feb 26th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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
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Tags: caronavirus, holidaymaker rights, protected rights
Feb 25th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The travel industry would dearly love to know if the coronavirus is affecting your holiday thinking. afternoon!
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Comments Off on Where to holiday?
Tags: China, coronavirus, Italy, Tenerife
Feb 24th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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
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Tags: APH, Mobile Phones, tabags, travel essentials