A new report suggests that many travel companies are facing serious trouble as their financial situations continue to deteriorate. In 2010, a number of major firms went to the wall, including Kiss Flights, XL and Goldtrail. The Red Flag Alert has been compiled by Begbies Traynor, a corporate administrator.
In the past year, the report claims, [...]

Kenya’s tourism industry could struggle to recover from a second holidaymaker being kidnapped from a resort in the north of the country and taken across the border to Somalia. Marie Dedieu, a 66-year-old disabled French citizen, was taken on Saturday from the bungalow she was staying in on a beach on Manda island, which is [...]

A recent survey of European cities shows that travellers found London to be the most overpriced. However, although it may have some of the most expensive hotels on the planet and charges a fortune for its transport network, travellers also voted London the most exciting European city.
The research was conducted by TripAdvisor and showed that [...]

The travel disruption caused by the volcanic ash plume emanating from Chile is the latest in a series of natural disasters to play havoc with Australia’s tourism industry. According to Tourism and Transport Forum boss, John Lee, the cost to the industry will work out at about $11.5 million per day.
Lee said that 2011 had [...]

Air France and Air Seychelles have signed a new deal on services which comes into effect today and will help boost tourism to the archipelago. The agreement was confirmed at Seychelles International Airport by Dominique Patry, international affairs senior vice president at Air France, and Maurice Loustau-Lalanne, executive chairman at Air Seychelles.
The agreement was finalised [...]

Leading car hire firm, Budget-Rent-a-Car, has been awarded a contract to supply vehicles to customers of the Skypark Plaza at Abu Dhabi International Airport. Senior General Manager, UAE, Budget-Rent-a-Car, Salim Damji, said that the company’s successful bid in acquiring space at Skypark Plaza would result in dramatic boost in revenues for Budget in Abu Dhabi. [...]

Although the number of tourists visiting Australia in 2009 was down by 2 percent on a year earlier experts in the travel industry predict that tourist numbers will slowly begin to rise through 2010. Although the global financial crisis meant that many business travellers as well as tourists were compelled to rethink their travel plans [...]

According to a number of leading car hire companies, unexpected demand over the last few months had led to shortages, meaning that some customers are having to walk away from branches rather than driving away in their hired car.
In order to ensure that the same situation doesn’t occur next year, car hire companies are urging [...]

This has not been a good year for the travel and tourism industry.  The global recession has many travelers worrying about their pocketbooks, while the outbreak of the swine flu virus has other concerned about their health.  These two factors have combined forces to make for one of the worst summer travel seasons in recent [...]

Manchester Airport are meeting with a number of different airlines in an attempt to fill the void left by Ryanair earlier this year.
After being asked to comment on the future of the airport, a spokesman for Manchester Airport revealed that the airport chiefs are confident of replacing the routes abandoned by Ryanair. It has [...]