Category: Travel News
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Wasted Weekends – 32 million Brits Squander Saturday & Sunday !
WASTED WEEKENDS: 32 MILLION BRITS SQUANDER SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS • Brits not putting in the miles for a weekend adventure BRITS URGED TO BAN WEEKEND BOREDOM: Only a third (34%) of Brits make the most of their weekends, blaming a lack of planning, time and cash for their shortage of fun. New research…
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Leeds/Bradford Airport Presentation for 10,000th passenger!
PRESS RELEASE {EAV:b26931b047c8e019} Global Holidays, the online travel agent based in Leeds were at Leeds/Bradford airport today to celebrate the booking of their 10,000th passenger from the airport. David Brice, partner of the travel agency, received a bottle of champagne from Emma Holiday and James Broughton from Travel Trade Sales and Marketing at Leeds Bradford Airport.…
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Titan Tours – Special deals and offers.
Global Holidays is delighted to announce that we have now started selling Titan Tours. A Titan Travel escorted tour is a wonderful, unforgettable holiday. Instead of a single destination, you will experience the many highlights of a particular country or region in the most convenient way. The itinerary has already been expertly planned with your …
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Don’t go abroad says Stephen Fry and Visit Britain but he does!
Two of the Global Holidays team were at the cinema last night ! They, however, didn’t get to see the whole film that they went to see. They were at a showing of the The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which they say was excellent, but they didn’t get to see the last 20 minutes of…
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Thomas Cook Airlines Call Centre is a joke!
Thomas Cook Airlines call centre is a joke! We need to speak to someone at Thomas Cook about a medical request for a customer and we have been trying for several days to get through. Every time we call we spend several minutes pressing numbers to get through to the correct department only to be…
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A thousand Greek hotels put up for sale
According to a report in today’s Sunday Times, as many as 1,000 Greek hotels are expected to close or be put up for sale in the next few weeks as owners fight for survival in the face of the massive economic downturn in Greece and reduced bookings. Visitors from Germany are down nearly 30% as…
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Cycling coast to coast
Have you ever wanted to cycle the UK’s Coast to Coast (C2C) cycling route? This is an ambition of one or two of our team here at Global Holidays, but so far we have never found the time! That’s not a good excuse if you really do want to do something but you do need to…
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Over 55’s want to dance on tabletops on holiday!
New research has revealed that the over 55 age group don’t just want holidays on the beach or holidays to cultural destinations. Instead, it seems that the over 55’s are heading to the party destinations like Ibiza and Faliraki. Even a holiday to the party capital of South America, Rio de Janeiro is high up…
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Government to waste £4M of tax payers money!
The government has announced that it is to spend £4m of tax payers money promoting tourism to the UK. This money will be spent on an expensive TV advertising campaign in an attempt to persuade us all to stay in the UK in 2012 and not to go abroad. Whilst we here at Global Holidays…
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Customer complaints cause a laugh!
Most organisations get complaints at one time or another. Sometimes complaints can be justified and other times customers can try it on. Whatever the reason, these complaints have to be taken seriously and dealt with in a timely professional way. The holiday company Thomas Cook recently made public some of its most humorous complaints so,…
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Costa Concordia passengers face flight losses after cruise cancellations.
Another reason for people to book an ATOL bonded package holiday has surfaced after it has emerged that many travel agents may have booked their customers on a separate flight and Costa Concordia cruise booking, issuing separate invoices for two bookings rather than on an ATOL protected cruise package holiday under one invoice. Because of the…
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Is the cruise boom over?
The events of last Friday night (Friday 13th as it happens) could well turn out to be a turning point in the cruise industry. As the Costa Concordia left the port of Rome for what should have been a routine cruise north towards Savona in northern Italy nobody onboard would have realised that events would…