Holidaysplease January boom despite economic slump Feb1

Holidaysplease January boom despite economic slump

by Harpreet in Economic Situation, Maldives, Mauritius, Travel News
With the first month of the year done and dusted, January has once again proved to be a popular time for most of us to book our yearly holiday (or holidays!). And it’s no surprise that 2012 has truly...
 
Travel Trends For 2012 Dec29

Travel Trends For 2012

by Harpreet in Economic Situation, Travel News
As 2011 draws to an end, Travel Association ABTA today released its Travel Trends Report for 2012. I think I speak for all of us when I say how quickly 2011 has flown by yet so much has happened...
 
Is Duty Free Really Cheaper? Dec16

Is Duty Free Really Cheaper?

by Nikki in Economic Situation, Travelling
Airports create the perfect shopping environment; people are in the holiday spirit, pockets full of spending money with time to kill before boarding. However the stores might not always be as competitive as we perceive them to be. Have you...
 
Thomas Cook Expected To Close 200 Branches But Holidaysplease Are Always Looking To Expand Their Team Dec12

Thomas Cook Expected To Close 200 Branches But Holidaysplease Are Always Looking To Expand Their Team

by Harpreet in Economic Situation, Travel News
It looks as though more of our fellow travel agents will be losing their jobs this week as it was announced today that Thomas Cook is the next travel company looking to restructure and cost-save. Europe’s second largest travel...
 
Turkey holiday specialist gets stuffed as Holidays 4U goes bust Aug4

Turkey holiday specialist gets stuffed as Holidays 4U goes bust

by Charles in Economic Situation, Travel News
In lock, stock and two smoking barrels there is the immortal line "Can everyone please stop getting shot". Well, at the moment I feel like saying "Can everyone please stop going bust". I only get to write a blog post...
 
Has Hotel Connect going bust led to a theft of holidaymakers’ money? Jul6

Has Hotel Connect going bust led to a theft of holidaymakers’ money?

by Charles in Economic Situation, Travel News
No sooner had I blogged about what a shame it was for Hotel Connect to go bust I now find out that things have gone from bad to worse for some customers. So bad, that in my opinion money...
 
Hotel connect goes bust – even the good companies can go Jun29

Hotel connect goes bust – even the good companies can go

by Charles in Economic Situation, Travel News
It is with far too much frequency that I write about another travel company going under. This time it's hotel specialist Hotel Connect. The frightening thing about this insolvency was that Hotel Connect was generally regarded in the industry as...
 
Dream tickets goes bust but could people challenge the insolvency? May31

Dream tickets goes bust but could people challenge the insolvency?

by Charles in Economic Situation, Travel News, Uncategorized
UK holiday company Dream Ticket went into administration on Monday 23rd May 2011 leaving over 4,000 holidaymakers' holiday plans in doubt. Luxury holiday company Holidays Please has however uncovered details of the insolvency that call into question how the how...
 
Budget 2011: No increase in Air Passenger Duty Mar24

Budget 2011: No increase in Air Passenger Duty

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Yesterday saw Chancellor George Osbourne bring some good news for the travel industry in this year’s budget. It was announced that Air Passenger Duty (APD) will not be increasing this year. Osbourne told how he will be delaying the...
 
How many more holiday companies will go bust? The answer….. quite a lot probably! Aug17

How many more holiday companies will go bust? The answer….. quite a lot probably!

by Charles in Economic Situation, Travel News
As we kiss goodbye to Kiss flights, we throw them on to the pile of broken holiday companies such as Destinations for Africa, Monster travel, Goldtrail, Sun4U and many more who have gone under this summer. The scary thing is the last two words...