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Before The Big Vote, Take A Look At What The Parties Plan To Do About Tourism. The UK Election is at the forefront of everyone’s minds at the moment however you have considered how your party will affect tourism? Whichever party wins the election will have their own, unique view of how tourism will work [...]

Thanks for TAT The UK’s Foreign Office had issued a warning to those thinking and already booked to fly into Bangkok due to the ongoing disputes there between police and anti-government protesters. During these protests 26 people have been killed and a further 1,000 injured, and as a result the Foreign Office has extended their [...]

Government warns of inevitable extinction if tiger tourism continues One of India’s biggest tourist attractions is being shielded by the Indian government as tourists threaten to reduce the already lingering number of wild Bengal tigers in the country. The endangered animals now number only 1,411 in their natural habitats and are in danger of becoming [...]

Owners Look to Close as Man Dies at Uluru The death of a 54 year old man who collapsed on his way down Ayers Rock in Uluru, Australia has seen calls for climbing to be closed permanently to prevent such tragedies occurring in the future. The traditional owners of the park have been planning to [...]

Ash Cloud Still Leaves Thousands Stuck Although many tourists have returned home after the chaos caused by the Icelandic volcanic ash, around 50,000 travellers still remain stranded in airports around the world. In many parts of the world there are simply not enough planes to transport the thousands of stranded passengers back home; some passengers [...]

Flights Are Good To Go, But At What Cost? Europe’s skies are officially open for business after six days of travel chaos due to the Icelandic volcano. Although 80% of all flights are good to go, passengers should still expect substantial delays as airlines try to cope with the cancellation backlog of over 95,000 flights. [...]

You Can Once Again Choose from Planes, Trains and Automobiles Tuesday evening saw many European flights take off for the first time in just under a week, and why that may not seem like too much time it has caused havoc to the whole continent. Today it’s to normal service resumed and while many flights [...]

Please note that the information below is only applicable if your flight has been cancelled by the airline. 1. Are customers that have yet to travel from the UK entitled to a refund? If they’ve booked a package holiday, and their outbound flight can’t be re-arranged until at least a significant time after (the normal [...]

Flights from Scotland are Given Go Ahead After five days of flight chaos the first domestic flights are taking off in the UK. Airports are gradually beginning to open after the effects of an Icelandic volcano left many passengers stranded. The first planes to hit the skies will take off from Edinburgh and Glasgow heading [...]

Volcanic Ash Clouds Europe’s Skies With the start of a new week the issues that have been made by the volcanic eruptions in Reykjavik, Iceland still burn on. With the skies now a serious risk for any passenger plane throughout the most of Europe delays are affecting practically everybody. Holidaymakers can’t make it abroad or [...]

Flights Remain Grounded as Volcanic Ash Sweeps Across Europe Flights will remain grounded for the second day as the large cloud of volcanic ash makes its way across Europe. No flights will leave the UK until at least Saturday, leaving thousands of travellers stranded due to the continuing volcanic eruption in Iceland. A statement by [...]

Latest News on Flights Delayed by Ash Clouds The UK’s Air Traffic Control Service (Nats) have announced that according to safety procedures in connection to the International Civil Aviation policy, that no flights will be sanctioned either in or out of the UK as a result of the ash clouds that have come from the [...]

Flights Cancelled as Ash Alert Hits the Nation The recent volcanic eruptions in the Eyjafjallajoekull area of Reykjavik has brought a minor economic boost to Iceland’s tourism sector but it has in turn had adverse effects on tourism in the UK as many flights from major airports are been delayed and cancelled. After days of [...]

Student festival brings carnage to Spanish resort A two week student party event is being banned by Spanish officials after thousands of drunken revellers descended on the coastal town of Salou. Saloufest is an annual event that attracts predominantly British students from around 100 universities. After the events of the past fortnight, local officials have [...]

After anti government protests, tourists are advised to avoid Thai travel Tourists have been warned against travelling to Thailand after violence leaves 21 people dead and over 800 people injured. The politically motivated violence has led to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs raising a ‘red’ travel alert after the clashes over the weekend. Countries around [...]

Ryanair Plan to Charge Passengers to Use Toilets Ryanair are set to join the growing culture of raising prices, but in a somewhat more obscure way. Passengers of the Irish airline will now be expected to pay to use the toilets whilst on their flights and the cost is expected to be around £1.07 and [...]