Your currently saved Airmiles are risk if you do not collect any more in the next 6 months. That is the warning to all Airmiles collectors will be receiving in the post in the coming days. Airmiles allows shoppers to collect points when they buy particular good and services which can then be redeemed for free flights – the reward […]
Continue reading »As the recession takes its toll there has been a surge in the number of holiday makers taking short one night stop over breaks. Research by Hotels.com has shown that bookings on these short holiday breaks has increased by 29% with searches for overnight breaks rising 530%. In the UK popular, one of the favourite cities for an overnight stop is Brighton with […]
Continue reading »Now like me, you are probably thinking that the beaches in Spain are one of its best features and would do a more than adequate job of selling the country to tourists across the World. Strangely, though it would appear that Spanish tourist board were not quite so confident in their own beaches. In a recent marketing campaign used pictures […]
Continue reading »The weak state of the pound could lead to British holiday makers choosing to take more holidays in the UK this year a tourism chief has suggested. The VisitBritain chairman believes that tourism is one of the few industries that could show growth during the current recession and highlighting that by 2018 the industry could be worth as much as […]
Continue reading »The Government have announced the intention to log all foreign travel of all Britons for up to 10 years. Among the information to be collected are itineraries, credit card details and contact information for all 250 million rail, air and ferry journeys in to and out of Britain each year. Ministers claim the move will help protect borders and fight crime and […]
Continue reading »Owner of Thomson Holidays, TUI has reported stronger British demand for summer holidays in recent weeks. Research conducted by TUI suggests that 87% of British customers will take an overseas holiday in 2009. Likewise travel websites Find Holiday Parks and The Self Catering Guide have also reported a very strong demand for summer holidays throughout January for holidays in Europe but also […]
Continue reading »Pontin’s the UK holiday park company has said that it will invest £50 in redveloping its holiday centres in the UK and creating 2,000 new jobs in the process. Ocean Parcs which owns Pontin’s has said that it’s bookings for half term, Easter and summer 2009 were all significantly up and so that the company was in a position to […]
Continue reading »Here is something to cheer you up during these long dark winter months – a chance to win holiday prizes and a chance to prove to your friends how good your travel knowledge is. The Quest for the Gold Ticket has been launched by ebookers and by simply answering some testing travel questions you gain entries in to a prize draw for tickets […]
Continue reading »easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, has announced that it is opening an additional 13 new routes across Europe, for Summer 2009 bringing the total number of routes to 416. Five of the new routes will operate from UK airports, giving travelers even more choice of popular destinations. These include routes from London to Munich, Zurich, Vienna and Bodrum in Turkey and Manchester […]
Continue reading »A statement on nationalrail.co.uk has rejected claims that the National rail enquiries website crashed on Monday when the bad weather hit. This will come as a surprise to the thousands of passengers who were desperately trying to get rail updates on Monday morningas they prepared for work. However, according to the release, the website handled 48,000 simultaneous visits during the […]
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