Second vessel to be named Island Star
Phil Davies - Mar 11, 2025
A second ship due to join Island Cruises is to be named Island Star. The four-star vessel, currently operating as Horizon…
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First Choice margins “slightly ahead”
Phil Davies - Mar 10, 2025
Customers are being persuaded to book holidays earlier due to product differentiation across First Choice’s brand portfolio, the group claims.…
Good start to 2005 for Cheapflights
Ginny McGrath - Mar 10, 2025
Cheapflights claims that over three million people visited its UK sites in January. The statistic, which has been verified by…
‘Overwhelming’ trend for short breaks
Ginny McGrath - Mar 10, 2025
Lonely Planet is launching city break guide packs after research found 90% of its readers enjoy short breaks. The guidebook…
Mexico paying price of tourism success
Ginny McGrath - Mar 10, 2025
Mexico is the subject of the latest Travel Foundation initiative, where a programme is being launched to tackle damage sustained…
BTI UK strikes booking deal with easyJet
Phil Davies - Mar 10, 2025
Business travel management company BTI UK is to gain a direct connection to easyJet’s reservation system. BTI UK claims to…
Operators to ’cause confusion’ with school holiday discounts
Ginny McGrath - Mar 09, 2025
Operators have been accused of sidelining agents and ‘springing’ an announcement on the public concerning the move to discount holidays…
Spain to spend millions boosting UK market
Ginny McGrath - Mar 09, 2025
The Spanish Tourist Office is spending £25 million on an advertising campaign to promote the country to tourists.Nearly a fifth…
Which? bashes TUI brochures
Ginny McGrath - Mar 08, 2025
TUI has been accused of making British holiday brochures more complex and the holidays less affordable than in brochures elsewhere…
MPs clash at BTTF over UK tourism
Phil Davies - Mar 07, 2025
Tourism minister Richard Caborn has urged England’s tourism industry to look to the regional development agencies (RDAs), rather than central…
Nardi sentencing delayed – charges dropped against wife
Phil Davies - Mar 07, 2025
Riccardo Nardi will not know his fate until mid March after his sentencing was delayed at Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court.…
“Half of Brits prefer package holidays”
Phil Davies - Mar 07, 2025
More than half of Britons prefer package holidays over Do-It-Yourself breaks, new research shows. The findings of a poll of…
