News of Swine Flu appeared suddenly, out of nowhere, tourism in Mexico took a hit, panic set in as the flu spread across the world. The World Health Organisation recently set the flu as category six because it is a pandemic and cases are appearing ...

This summer I will be taking a few long weekend breaks on the Yorkshire coast, weather permitting, so it was interesting to read in the Which? Holiday magazine that this year only 71 beaches were awarded the Blue Flag status, that’s 11 less than last ...

There has been quite a bit of discussion about the future of blogs and Travel Weekly interestingly highlighted that only 7% of consumers would use a blog to research their holiday destination. I think that’s because most people cannot differentiate between a site and a ...

It is not the first time that I have received a rant about the lack of customer service from airlines where flight connections are concerned. This week a reader had a rant about two airlines who messed up his travel plans because of a lack ...

A number of British camp sites are not allowing groups of all males or all female campers primarily because the camp site owners are concerned about how these groups will behave. I can understand this; you only have to look at the headlines of last ...