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Europcar, a France-based car rental company, is offering expanded services at UK airports. The company is currently offering its van rental services at London Heathrow, London Luton, London Stansted, Birmingham and Newcastle airport locations in the UK. The company has been expanding its Europcar Van network due to increasing demand from businesses and leisure customers for vans at these locations. Ken McCall, the managing director at Europcar UK Group, said, ‘In the last year we have seen significant growth in van rental by logistics companies. We believe this is largely due to the huge upturn in online and home shopping…

London Marriott Hotel Marble Arch says is claiming to offer a number of attractive accommodation options for visitors to the city of London. The deluxe four-star hotel, located near Oxford Street, London, is within easy reach of major amenities, including Hyde Park, Winter Wonderland, and West End theatres. For half-term breaks, families can take advantage of a 20.12 percent discount by booking in advance, which includes room only at weekend stay for breakfast rates. The hotel is also offering a London Eye Package, including accommodation, two tickets for the London Eye Ferris wheel, breakfast for two adults, and use of…

British Airways, a UK based airline, is offering a range of sunny locations for holidays for the forthcoming winter holiday season. The airline is offering holidays to sunny destinations including Barbados, St Kitts, Tobago, Grenada, and St Lucia in the Caribbean, Miami, Orlando and Phoenix in the USA, Bermuda, Dubai, and the Maldives, as well as Malaga, and Alicante in Spain, and Faro, in Portugal. The airline claims to be offering attractive fares to these destinations, which can be booked until October 24, 2012, for travel dates up to March 31, 2013. For Caribbean destinations, customers could save around £150…

A slogan thought up to promote tourism to the Scottish city, Edinburgh, has been criticised by several bodies and individuals. Incrediburgh, a play on words that combines the word incredible with the city’s name, was thought up by Marketing Edinburgh, an organisation that was created last year to promote the city’s tourism potential, and which is funded by the taxpayer. This was not the only example of name manipulation that the organisation penned, with other suggestions being Paintthetownredinburgh, to promote the city as a party venue, Wellfedinburgh, to promote its wide range of eating options, Romanceisnotdeadinburgh, to promote it as…

TAP Portugal, a Portugal based airline, is launching a marketing campaign for its route from the UK, to Lisbon Airport in Portugal. The new daily service from Manchester Airport, to Lisbon Airport, has been recently extended from a five day a week service. The newly expanded service commences from October 28, 2012, with the airline offering twin-class fares, which include complimentary food and drink, complimentary advance seat choice, a 23kg baggage allowance, and the Executive and Victoria frequent flyer services. The airline is extending the Anglo-Portuguese connection to become the main air carrier between Portugal and the UK. The airline’s…

London is one of the world’s greatest cities, but like Paris, New York and Rome, can be hard on the wallet. While you can see all the stunning major attractions from the outside at no charge other than your travel, some do have entrance fees and if you want to cram in as many as possible, the costs are going to mount up. Choose the ones you want to see inside carefully, and make the most of them. If you want to see the luxurious side of London but lack the financial wherewithal to splurge, it is possible, it just…

CityJet, an Ireland-based airline, is offering a new service to Nuremberg in Germany, from London City Airport in the UK. The new service commences from January 27, 2013, with twice daily flights served by an Avro RJ 85 aircraft. The new route will compliment the airline’s introductory services to Munster-Osnabruck, commencing on October 29, 2012. The airline is offering return fares from London City Airport to Nuremberg for £109 and above. Christine Ourmieres, the chief executive officer of CityJet, said, ‘Nuremberg is a key business hub in Europe given its position as the capital of Germany’s industrial heartland. It is…

The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), a US-based company focusing on the business travel industry, is reporting that travel managers across the world are being given more control of the travel decisions of corporate companies. A survey of around 1,500 travel professionals worldwide revealed that around 60 percent of travel managers reported having more control over policy than previously. Around 64 percent of European travel managers reported an increase in control, far more than their counterparts in the rest of the world. Around 36 percent of European travel managers have reported setting travel policy, while 31 percent have reported being…

An American author and educationalist has suggested that Prince Edward Island, a Canadian territory, could offer tourists a chance to swim with tunas. Carl Safina, a professor who teaches at Stony Brook University, said that the island could benefit financially if authorities offer tourists the chance to swim with tuna fish, which can reach up to 500 kilograms in weight. Safina was on the island this autumn to film a documentary, and was enthusiastic about his own experience of swimming with a group of tuna off North Lake. This has led Safina to consider the potential that such programmes could…

A study has highlighted some new facts regarding business travel trends in the US. While previous figures had indicated that following the slump in the financial markets, spending on business travel in the US had increased in 2010 and 2011, recent trends show that business travel spending is slowing down, and analysts feel that this could be due to apprehensions about the economy and its future prospects. The Global Business Travel Association compiled the report, and the study was sponsored by Visa Inc (NYSE: V). Michael W McCormick, executive director of the group, said, ‘Corporations are in a wait-and-see mode…