Category: Travel News
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Is This The Best Travel Complaint Letter Ever ?
There is an e-mail doing the rounds at the moment which is a letter of complaint sent to Sir Richard Branson from a Virgin Atlantic customer. It is considered by many to be the world’s funniest complaint letter. Here we reproduce it in full courtesy of The Telegraph. Dear Mr Branson REF: Mumbai to Heathrow 7th…
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Government Travel Database
Plans have been unveiled by the government to store in a database the travel plans of anyone going on holiday from the UK. The records of all flight, holidays, ferry and rail journeys will be stored in a database for 10 years. Roughly 25 million trips are taken every year from the UK so the…
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Holidays Are Important According To Survey
A recent survey of 2,000 people conducted by holiday company Club Med has found that overseas holidays are the most important luxury for the British public during the credit crunch.Despite fears of people not taking holidays in 2009 it seems that this year could be the year of the “big” holiday as people book holidays on…
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All Inclusive Holidays Proving Popular
Sales of All Inclusive holidays accounted for 25% of all holiday bookings made in January according to the latest research. The figures prove that people are budgeting during the recession. The All Inclusive holiday has been popular for many years. The idea started in the Caribbean and has since spread to many other popular holiday…
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Travel Agents Benefit From Stunning Film Locations
There have been several Bafta and Oscar nominated films released recently that are having a knock on effect on the travel industry. The best selling movie DVD of all time is Mama Mia, which is based on the hit musical about Abba. It is a great movie and if you haven’t seen it then you…
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Heathrow Protesters Suffer Blow From Climate Change Expert.
In an article in Sundays Observer one of the worlds leading climate change experts, Jim Hansen, criticised the Heathrow Airport extension protesters. Building a third runway at Heathrow, he said, would have little or no affect on the amount of carbon emissions that the world produces. He went on to say that the main danger…