Holidaysplease January boom despite economic slump Feb1

Holidaysplease January boom despite economic slump

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...
It’s Never Too Late To Escape Your Winter Blues Dec6

It’s Never Too Late To Escape Your Winter Blues

Those cold and gloomy days are fully upon us, everyone is sneezing, coughing or sniffing around us and we all wish we were in a nice sunny destination far away from here. Now sounds like the ideal time for...
64% of people going on holiday don’t understand the weather statistics Mar30

64% of people going on holiday don’t understand the weather statistics

In a recent survey of 1,000 holidaymakers, luxury holiday website www.holidaysplease.co.uk found that 64% of holidaymakers are not sure of the weather statistics that they have read prior to going on holiday. Despite over 90% of people saying that they checked the...
Budget 2011: No increase in Air Passenger Duty Mar24

Budget 2011: No increase in Air Passenger Duty

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...
2018 world cup goes to Russia… Dec2

2018 world cup goes to Russia…

It was decided today that the 2018 world cup would be hosted by Russia and has been described as a big blow to the inbound tourism industry. With the UK in a poor economic position the inbound tourism may...
Weather Chaos moves south… Dec1

Weather Chaos moves south…

Yesterday it was mainly the North of the country that was feeling the effects of this adverse weather, today however Gatwick airport has closed, with no flights arriving or departing until tomorrow morning (Thursday 2nd December) before 6am. Passengers have...
Join the Beckham’s and Ramsey’s in the Maldives this Christmas… Nov26

Join the Beckham’s and Ramsey’s in the Maldives this Christmas…

This Christmas, Gordon Ramsay and the family are allegedly planning to jet off to the Maldives... With the Beckham’s... Following the recent family problems, escaping the UK is probably top of their list and where better to escape to than...
Extra public holiday boosts the travel sector…? Nov25

Extra public holiday boosts the travel sector…?

Somewhat following on from yesterday’s blog... It looks as though the royal wedding will have a dramatic effect on the travel sector. With the wedding date set for Friday April 29th 2011, this gives everyone an additional bank holiday,...
Where will the Royal Honeymoon be? Nov16

Where will the Royal Honeymoon be?

Prince William recently proposed to Kate Middleton and they are set to be wed in spring or summer next year... As exciting as this all is, all I can think of is where will the honeymoon be!?  Traditionally newlywed...
If money was no object, where would you go on holiday!? Nov12

If money was no object, where would you go on holiday!?

For a bit of Friday fun we got talking in the office about where we would travel to on a dream holiday, if we had endless amounts of money. Personally I’ve always wanted to visit the mysterious ruins of...