With its distinctive blend of coastal, urban and rural sceneries, Kent is better positioned than most areas in the UK to benefit from ’staycationers’. Currently, a huge number of local travellers are avoiding tour packages for overseas destinations in favour of easily accessed local sights.
Kent’s tourism industry is benefiting as a result. Sandra Matthews-Marsh, CEO [...]

One of Europe’s biggest car hire firms, Europcar, is offering familtop tips for families in order to remove boredom for this half term.
Marketing director of Europcar, Catriona Lougher said that huddling in the car out of the wint and rain is not everyone’s idea of the perfect holiday and it could give rise to frayed [...]

The global recession has taken its toll on the travel and tourism industry in the United Kingdom.  Occupancy rates in hotels are down, people are not flying, and car hire is struggling to stay afloat.  This has affected the job market, as unemployment is extremely high in the tourism business, especially at resorts and luxury [...]

Seven trans-Atlantic airplanes that were headed to New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Montreal, and Toronto were the targets of three men who were recently convicted in a London court.  The three were part of an elaborate plot which aimed to take down the airlines in what would have been the most deadly attack since September [...]

Retailmenot.com is a website in Australia which collects various vouchers and coupons and keeps them all in a central location for customers looking for discounts.  These discounts are on just about everything, from typical household items and appliances, to things like package holidays and airplane tickets.  The Australian website is taking advantage of the now [...]

Car rental customers looking for great bargains will now have a new way to search as Co-op Travel has joined forces with Carrentals UK to premier a new addition to their website.  The newest addition will search for the best deals from over 30 car rental companies, which will allow customers to find the best [...]

Universities are predicting a 20 percent drop in international students due to recent changes in visa regulations in the United Kingdom.  The new system, which uses points as a means to decide who gets a visa, has been a failure thus far, as many international students are deciding to go to countries whose visa laws [...]

f the economy continues to struggle there may be a day when holiday parks in the United Kingdom are a thing of the past.  With many families struggling in the current economic recession, visits to traditional holiday parks have fallen significantly in the past two years.   According to a report, less than 30 percent of [...]

Thomas Cook & Son have reported that their winter travel bookings have dropped significantly from this point last year.  Even though summer travel has tended to remain steady, with only small drops in numbers, holidaymakers are increasingly deciding that winter vacations are expendable.
The travel company, one of the UK’s largest, has reported a drop in [...]

Concerns over the pit falling economy coupled with the global outbreak of the H1N1 virus are driving Britons to stay in the UK for their holidays.  With more holidaymakers choosing to opt out of expensive travel abroad, some businesses within the travel and tourism industry are seeing an unexpected boom in their summer sales numbers.
With [...]