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Free Travel Apps
Free, Handy Travel App’s Our intrepid traveller and Travel TV presenter, Becky Hayes, has been looking at the best travel apps for smartphones so if you are heading abroad on holiday or business don’t leave without downloading these handy, free apps first. Trip Advisor Download this to find the best restaurants and attractions when abroad and…
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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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A holiday to Goa – Read a customers diary
Once you have been on a holiday to Goa the majority of people return year after year. This is certainly true of one of our customers who always send us a copy of their Goa holiday diary so that we can publish it on our travel blog. If you are a regular to Goa or thinking…
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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…
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HS2 is not money well spent
I’m all in favour of spending money to improve transport links but I think that the high speed rail link from London to Birmingham is probably not money well spent. £33bn for something that will take 21 years to fully be completed and will probably be delayed and cost twice as much as first thought…
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Gran Hotel Atlantis Bahia Real Video Tour
Our “Travel TV” presenter, Becky Hayes recently visited the fabulous 5 star Gran Hotel Atlantis Bahia Real in Fuerteventura to see for herself what this luxury hotel has to offer. Taking a film crew she spent several days sampling the facilities and filming, and she came home extremely impressed. If you are looking for a…
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Travel agents beware of fraudulant flight bookings
Maybe it’s the recession but this December we have had several attempts to book flights with us using stolen credit cards. We have just had another one today. The caller wanted a flight to Barbados leaving in the next few days. We noticed that the caller withheld his number and even though we quoted a high fare he…
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What went wrong at Thomas Cook ?
Thomas Cook, Europe’s second largest tour operator, has hit hard times and it needs to ask its banks for a loan to help it through the next few months. Winter is traditionally a time when cash flow for travel companies is at its lowest. There is no doubt that the bad economic uncertainty in the…