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Wales ’
Mar 1st, 2021 |
By The Editor
This year there will be no village hall get-together, no outside events, no theatre, no choirs rehearsing for eisteddfods or concert performances. What there is will be online.
Posted in Headline |
Comments Off on St David’s Day 2021
Tags: Andrew Logan, Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture, London Wales Week, National Library of Wales, St David’s Day, Wales
Feb 22nd, 2021 |
By The Editor
The fourth step which is scheduled to commence around the 21st June is a lifting of international travel restrictions.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on There should be summer holidays
Tags: Boris Johnson, England, international travel restrictions, lockdown restrictions, Northern Ireland, Scotland, UK, Wales
Feb 17th, 2021 |
By The Editor
She told people not to book Easter holidays saying that it was highly unlikely to use her words that hotels or self-catering places would be allowed to open.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Nicola dampens holiday thoughts
Tags: coronavirus lockdowns, England, Ireland, Mark Drakeford, Nicola Sturgeon, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales
Dec 19th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The announcements tonight by three of the four UK governments have ended hopes for many people of a Christmas break.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Christmas breaks disappear
Tags: coronavirus lockdown, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, UK, Wales
Oct 22nd, 2020 |
By The Editor
Four of the big companies, British Airways, easyJet, Jet 2 and TUI have announced they won’t charge change fees.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Lockdowns and holiday travel rights
Tags: Greater Manchester, Ireland, Liverpool, local lockdowns, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South Yorkshire, Wales
Oct 20th, 2020 |
By The Editor
With the resurgence of COVID-19 cases, half-term and autumn breaks seem off the agenda.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Forget autumn breaks
Tags: England, fire-breaks, Ireland, lockdowns, Scotland, tourism closures, UK, Wales
Sep 23rd, 2020 |
By The Editor
Tthe four announcements that were made yesterday might also affect domestic tourism.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on No October half-term holidays?
Tags: coronavirus travel restrictions, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, UK, Wales
Sep 18th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Seven countries have been added to the list to which Irish reidents can visit. The UK has added teo but taken another two off.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Weekly holiday review: 18th September 2020
Tags: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus., ECDC, England, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Maldives, Mexico, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Scotland, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand, UK, Wales
Sep 11th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The good news is that Sweden has been taken off the quarantine list so you can now travel there without the need to self-isolate
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Weekly holiday review 11th September 2020
Tags: Barbados, China, coronavirus, England, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Norther n Ireland, Scotland, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Turkey, UK, Wales
Sep 8th, 2020 |
By The Editor
There is confusion as all four nations now have different rules for Greece.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on UK has four different quarantine rules
Tags: Canaries, England, Greece, Mykonos, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales
Sep 6th, 2020 |
By The Editor
All politicians have claimed that they are acting on medical advice yet the interpretation was so different.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on The dis-United Kingdom
Tags: Commomwealth and Development Office, England, FCDO - Foreign, FCO, Northern Ireland, Scotland, UK, Wales
Sep 4th, 2020 |
By The Editor
If you thought that quarantine restrictions were confused last week, then this week they are mired in disagreement between the four nations.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Weekly holiday review 4th September 2020
Tags: Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Egypt, Estonia, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Malaysia, Maldives, Portugal, Scotland, Wales
Jul 18th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Since the re-opening, many will tell you that their phones haven’t stopped ringing. Some gleefully boast that they are busy until the end of August.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Will it stay busy?
Tags: summer staycations 2020, Wales
Jul 2nd, 2020 |
By The Editor
The UK as one destination. It is four and different rules and even laws apply.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on We are four, not one
Tags: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, UK, Wales
Jun 26th, 2020 |
By The Editor
“We’re good to go” is the name of the UK’s certification scheme for tourism organisations
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Visit England, Wales
Jun 25th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Here is a quick summary of lockdown easing as it affects tourism in the home nations and Ireland.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Lockdown easing in the UK and Ireland
Tags: England, lockdown easing, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Wales
Jun 24th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Independence day could be celebrated in England. It’s the day when we can start enjoying tourism again.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Independence day approaches
Tags: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, tourism re-opens, UK, Wales
Jun 20th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The news from the Welsh government that some tourism can start from the 13th of July will be a significant tonic for the tourism industry.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Yes Virginia, there is a summer tourist season!
Tags: lockdown easing, self-contained accommodation, staycations, Wales, Welsh tourism
Dec 16th, 2019 |
By The Editor
The Celtic Routes were developed to promote the natural, cultural and heritage assets common to each of the counties to increase visitor numbers
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Take the Celtic route
Tags: Carmarthenshire, Celtic Routes, Ceredigion, Ireland, pembrokeshire, Wales, Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow
Oct 11th, 2019 |
By The Editor
If governments feel that urgency is required in cutting emissions, PSO’s need looking at again.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on A public service or dis-service?
Tags: Ireland, Northern Ireland, PSO, Scotland, Wales
Aug 5th, 2019 |
By The Editor
The National Eisteddfod is on for another week and during that time about 150,000 will visit.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Are you off to the maes?
Tags: Llanrwst, National Eisteddfod, Wales
Jul 1st, 2019 |
By The Editor
Just as Center Parcs put outdoor attractions under cover, destinations and attractions need to invest in all-weather attractions to get us to visit them.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on It’s the weather
Tags: Center Parcs, Wales, weather as a tourism factor
Mar 9th, 2019 |
By The Editor
Devolving APD away from Westminster will only cause strife if any nation alters the rate at which APD is charged.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Time to end APD?
Tags: APD, Bristol, Cardiff, VAT, Wales
Mar 1st, 2019 |
By The Editor
Tradition says that it was on March 1st that St David died 1,430 years ago, this very year.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on St David’s Day
Tags: Cardiff, New York, St David\'s Day, Wales
Feb 12th, 2019 |
By The Editor
My forecast would be that if it is devolved and abolished in Wales, the tax will shortly disappear entirely.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Devolving APD to Wales
Tags: APD, APD abolition, Bristol Airport, Cardiff Airport, Scotland, Wales
Dec 27th, 2018 |
By The Editor
The Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) has declared that it will the Year of Festivals in the Caribbean. In Wales it is the Year of Discovery.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Its the “Year of…
Tags: Caribbean, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales
Sep 15th, 2018 |
By Adrian Lawes
The opening of the V&A Dundee, APD in Wales, increasing visitor numbers from the UK to Qatar and the Barbadian Food & Rum Festival are some of the events capturing Adrian’s interest this week.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 15th of September 2018
Tags: APD, Barbados, Barbados Food and Rum Festival, battlefield sites, Doncaster Sheffield Airport, Dundee, Mallorca, Mallorca Classic car Week, New York, Qatar, V&A Dundee, Wales, World Trade Center
Aug 19th, 2018 |
By The Editor
The exhibition only runs until the end of the month, a very short time considering that his map was the main source for travellers for over a century.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Humphrey Llwyd
Tags: Cambriae Typus, cartography, Humphrey Llwyd, Wales, Welsh mapping