Posts Tagged ‘
On the Beach ’
Feb 7th, 2021 |
By The Editor
On the Beach considers that bookings will remain “weak” until the second half of the year.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on A busy or quiet summer?
Tags: On the Beach, summer holiday bookings 2021
Dec 16th, 2020 |
By The Editor
I can’t say that I am cheering from the rafters about On the Beach being named Best Online Travel Company.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on Deserved? No.
Tags: ABTA, British Travel Awards, Competition and Markets Authority, On the Beach
Feb 9th, 2020 |
By Adrian Lawes
Expect to see both travel agents and tour operators talking more frequently about the attractions of Tunisia.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Tunisia looks to the future
Tags: Cyplon, easyjet, Expedia, Love Holidays, Nouvelair, On the Beach, TUI, Tunisair, Tunisia
Jul 21st, 2019 |
By The Editor
Claiming that Thomas Cook is the worst and TUI is the second worst is misleading; they are only the worst amongst a small unrepresentative group.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Is Thomas Cook the worst?
Tags: Love Holidays, On the Beach, Riviera, Saga, Thomas Cook, Trailfinders, TUI, Which?
Jun 21st, 2019 |
By The Editor
We might be happy about the good weather being forecast but travel agents and tour operators aren’t.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on At the summer solstice
Tags: On the Beach, spain, Summer holiday bookings 2019, Turkey
May 16th, 2019 |
By The Editor
It suggests that British holidaymakers are looking at cheaper destinations and destinations outside the Eurozone and that the big two have been wrong-footed.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Shifting holiday patterns
Tags: holiday plans in 2019, On the Beach, Thomas Cook, TUI
Feb 8th, 2019 |
By The Editor
The Times says this morning that there is “turmoil” in the travel industry. It makes a good line but is it true?
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Understanding holidaymakers
Tags: Holiday bookings, On the Beach, Thomas Cook, TravelSupermarket, TUI
Feb 1st, 2019 |
By The Editor
Morgan Stanley contend that Thomas Cook and TUI are losing market share to newer entrants.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on We’re falling out of love with TUI and Thomas Cook
Tags: Jet 2, Morgan Stanley, On the Beach, Package holidays, Thomas Cook, TUI
Dec 26th, 2018 |
By The Editor
According to a survey undertaken by the online travel agency, On the Beach, Brexit will have no impact on 2019 holiday plans for most of us.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Brexit will make little difference
Tags: Brexit, On the Beach
Dec 6th, 2018 |
By The Editor
Despite what trendy management gurus say, there is still a big demand for package holidays – it is just not as big as it was.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Should you book with Thomas Cook?
Tags: changing travel booking habits, eDreams, Expedia, On the Beach, Thomas Cook, TUI
Aug 18th, 2018 |
By Adrian Lawes
As summer reaches it peak in August, coracle racing at a village festival, jousting at Arundel Castle and a holiday preference for Tenerife confirm its a typical summer!
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 18th of August 2018
Tags: activity holidays, Arundel Castle, Dublin, Mini-Cooper, New Caledonia, On the Beach, Scotland's Storybook Trail, Surbiton, Tenerife, Yosemite National Park
Feb 25th, 2018 |
By The Editor
Recently we have had views about travel this summer from TUI, Thomas Cook, On the Beach and Jet 2. What might be in store for travellers and holidaymakers?
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on What might be in store for travellers and holidaymakers this summer?
Tags: Jet 2, On the Beach, summer 2018 holiday outlook, Thomas Cook, TUI
Dec 17th, 2016 |
By Adrian Lawes
Christmas trees, (well it is that time of the year,) new transport facilities in Venice, more help for people with disabilities at airports and the end of the Thomson holiday name attract Adrian’s attention this week.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 17th December 2016
Tags: Bristol Airport, Brownsville, credit card fees, Delray Beach, easyjet, Gatwick, Glasgow Airport rail link, Jet 2, Karl McCartney MP, Luton Airport, Miami, Monarch, On the Beach, Southend Airport, Thomson Holidays, TUI, UK cultural heritage, Venice, Zika virus
Dec 3rd, 2016 |
By Adrian Lawes
Tattoos, why Santa is on a lifeboat, Michelin star restaurants in Macao and the delights of Sydney at Christmas feature in Adrian’s column this week.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 3rd December 2016
Tags: American Airlines, British Library, Colombo, Cuba, Dublin, Lascaux Cave, Macao, Mall of America, Millennium Hotels and Resorts, Norwich, On the Beach, Plymouth, Qatar Airlines, Quentin Blake, Richmond VA, Roald Dahl, Royal William Yard Harbour, Sydney, tattoo pricing, Tenerife, Titanic Belfast
Jan 22nd, 2015 |
By The Editor
Since I wrote the last tips from tour operators, three more companies have sent lists of suggestions in, Al Fresco, Exsus and On the Beach.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on More holiday tips
Tags: Al Fresco Holidays, Algarve, Exsus, Morocco, On the Beach, spain, Zimbabwe
Jan 1st, 2011 |
By The Editor
The online travel agency, On the Beach, has conducted a survey amongst its website users (so they aren’t representative of the population as a whole or even just of online users) and has come up with some figures that should worry the British domestic travel industry. 96% of all responders said that they will spend their summer holidays abroad in 2011 and the two most frequently given reasons were the weather and that British hotels were too expensive. 70% said that a holiday in the UK was more expensive than going abroad.
Posted in Travel destinations, Travel news |
Comments Off on Escape Expensive: Holiday Abroad
Tags: ABTA, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Mexico, On the Beach, Russia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam