Author: News Team
Ryanair yesterday revealed the ‘secrets’ of how to avoid all the airlines optional fees by publishing a free online guide entitled, ‘How Do I Avoid Paying Optional Fees?’. The guide urges passengers to avoid bringing checked in bags, ensure they check-in online to avoid boarding card reissue penalties, and complete their booking with MasterCard Prepaid to avoid administration fees. Ryanair’s free guide, which is available with a simple click through on the ryanair.com fees page, advises passengers as follows: · Admin Fee– avoidable by paying with Ryanair’s recommended MasterCard Prepaid card. · Priority Boarding Fee – is avoidable by not selecting this service. · …
Terrorism is no longer the most worrying aspect of air travel according to a survey released by Travel Daily Media as part of its ‘2011 Travel Daily Aviation Safety Survey’ While less than 25 per cent of travel professionals cited terrorism as their major fear, the majority 54.2 per cent cited technical safety followed by 42.4 per cent who said they were more concerned by turbulence or adverse weather conditions. A further 33.9 per cent cited pilot/crew proficiency. Polling just 23.7 per cent, terrorism was the fourth largest source of concern. On the subject of current airport security measures, exactly…
Its not a real insider’s tip anymore, yet it still is little known to many travellers and travel agents: serviced apartments. Not only does this unique “home away from home” offer more space than a conventional hotel room, it also guarantees a great potential of saving travel costs. Many business travellers that have to go to another city, temporarily working there as a project manager or a consultant, know about the benefits of serviced apartments. The demand for this type of temporary apartment is growing. All over Europe, new houses are opening. After all, the sector of corporate housing is…
Staff at Newcastle International Airport have outdone objectives that had been put in place to reduce their energy usage, allowing them to minimize their carbon footprint by 5%. Under the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, the airport has to report each year on its emissions and airport companies are hoping that the savings they have chose to make this year will place them highly on the league table of energy efficient companies to be released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change towards the end of the year. The airport brought in several actions to reduce its emissions such as…
The famous ‘reviews you can trust’ slogan has been removed from TripAdvisor’s website, and been replaced with ‘reviews from our community’. This follows allegations made by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) over that bogus reviews have been posted on the site. A investigation has been launched concentrating on were the reviews can be trusted – claims that the post were made by ‘real travellers’ could not be substantiated. It is thought that between five and ten million reviews could be fake, KwickChex.com has had up to 2,000 hoteliers approaching them feeling they have been incorrectly reviewed and…
The land where beauty meets wildlife, Asia’s first national park – the Jim Corbett National Park becomes 75 this year. Located in the Shivalik foothills of Uttarakhand, the national park has also become one of the main nurseries for India’s tiger conservation movement. Today it is most demanded wildlife destination in India. People from every corner of the world come to experience the thrill of the park. It is said that one in every eight tigers of India, live in Jim Corbett Park. According to the latest survey more than 200 tigers live in Corbett landscape which is…
Strong winds and huge waves forecast for Britain as hurricane Katia threatens to hit land today. The hurricane looks set to bring winds of 80mph and sea swells reaching 15 metres battering the UK with torrential ran expected to strike many parts of the country. The hurricanes path changed direction, heading away from the USA and towards the UK across the Atlantic. The hurricane is likely to hit the Northern Isles, the north and north-west Scotland – bringing hammering rain and brutal winds. The blustery conditions are likely to be seen by the rest of the…
Rugby fans are being warned to take extra care on the roads during the Rugby World Cup as statistics show New Zealand has more than twice the number of road crash fatalities per 100,000 people as the UK. The Foreign Office has provided the following tips for driving in New Zealand: * prepare for long distance between service stations in rural areas * take care when driving at night: outside of towns there is little street lighting. Also look out for livestock wandering onto roads * do not drink alcohol before driving in New Zealand. Drinking and driving laws are…
Virgin Holidays is delighted to announce a new complimentary service for their customers – beach wheelchairs. Available in selected hotels in Antigua, Barbados and St Lucia, these specially designed chairs allow customers who have walking difficulties or are wheelchair user’s, easy access onto the beach and into the ocean. These tricked-out chairs come complete with extra chunky beach-friendly wheels, sunshades and storage for beach essentials. Virgin Holidays employee Nicola Davis, herself a wheelchair user, came up with the idea after visiting the Caribbean on holiday. “I have used beach wheelchairs in Florida for many years and then I travelled…
International tourism grew by almost 5% in the first half of 2011, totalling a new record of 440 million arrivals. Results confirm that, in spite of multiple challenges, international tourism continues to consolidate the return to growth initiated in 2010. ADVANCED ECONOMIES GROW FASTER THAN EXPECTED International tourist arrivals are estimated to have grown by 4.5% in the first half of 2011, consolidating the 6.6% increase registered in 2010. Between January and June of this year, the total number of arrivals reached 440 million, 19 million more than in the same period of 2010. Growth in advanced economies (+4.3%) has…