Posts Tagged ‘ Foreign and Commonwealth Office ’

The time has come to create a tourism and travel department which incudes the travel advisory service and passport departments from the FCO and the Home Office.

No wonder the travel industry and us holiday makers don’t know if we are coming or going.

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

Overnight came the news that the FCO had recommended that only essential travel to mainland China take place.

Part of the world has become a little less inviting for tourists but then, wasn’t it ever so?

The Egyptian tourism minister, Rania A Al Mashat tweeted “Welcome back to Sharm el Sheikh. Our Friends…You’ve been missed.”

The lifting of the ban on travelling to Sri Lanka has come within months of the terrorist incident.

The Foreign & Commonwealth Office lifted the ban on travel to most parts of Tunisia this afternoon.

Travelling to Tunisia all hinges on whether you have insurance and that depends on what our government says. Unless you do as you will like Matt Wallace and the other Brits who played in the Open.

I talked to a hotel management company, Concorde who operate two hotels, one in Hammamet and one in Port El Kantaoui near Sousse about how they were adapting to the heightened safety demands.

The UK government is considering changes to how it offers its travel advisory service. And it would like your thoughts on what if any changes might be made.

Last week HolidayTravelWatch, a website that acts as a conduit for holiday complaints, announced that there was “a general failure by the travel industry to offer a clear picture… to provide full information about a given destination.”

This morning our television screens have carried stories about Tui (Thomson and First Choice) bringing home its customers who have been holidaying in Kenya.

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month, it’s good news for Norway and nudists – if not all inclusive holidays

The decision, this afternoon, by TUI and Thomas Cook to stop sending German holidaymakers to Egypt on holiday seems a little one-sided. If it was unsafe for German holidaymakers to go there doesn’t the same apply to British and Irish holidaymakers?

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month business class passengers, Barcelona FC and boozy Brits are all generating media inches