By Darren Cronian Sunday, October 2nd, 2005
Package holiday bookings to areas hit by the Boxing Day tsunami are well down on last year. Bookings to Sri Lanka for this winter are 62% down, the Maldives is 38% down and Thailand is 26% down, said the Association of British Travel Agents ...
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By Darren Cronian Sunday, October 2nd, 2005
The Foreign Office was under fire last night after it emerged that the Australian government had warned all its citizens not to travel to Indonesia amid fears of an imminent terrorist attack. Britain did not alter its threat assessment, which was downgraded in July ...
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By Darren Cronian Saturday, October 1st, 2005
UPDATE: for an update of this story please visit the BBC News website
The Indonesian resort island of Bali has been hit by at least two explosions, the British embassy in Jakarta has confirmed. The Associated Press reports that three Western tourists have been injured.
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By Darren Cronian Thursday, September 15th, 2005
The fifteenth Annual Monaco Yacht Show is being held 21 to 24 September, and the Principality’s hotels will be full. It’s been a good year for the travel industry in Monaco, the same cannot be said for her property market…
The annual yacht show ...
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By Darren Cronian Saturday, September 10th, 2005
TENS of thousands of holidaymakers taking short breaks to cities in Europe are failing to take out travel insurance each year — leaving themselves open to costly medical bills. Travel insurance companies say that as many as four in ten weekend break travellers are ...
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By Darren Cronian Thursday, July 21st, 2005
Whether it's to Cuba, the Costa del Sol or the Canaries, Britons are now preparing en masse to take off on their summer holidays. This month alone, five million people are expected to join the exodus from the UK. Savvy sunseekers will have ...
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By Darren Cronian Thursday, July 14th, 2005
During the last week I've gone through a number of emotions from sadness to anger and outrage. What happened last Thursday in London will live in our minds forever. Whilst we were sad and angry about what happened in New York, Istanbul, Bali and ...
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By Darren Cronian Monday, July 11th, 2005
Thousands of National Guard troops have been fanning out across Florida to help assess the damage in one of the states battered by Hurricane Dennis. Downgraded to a tropical depression, experts say Dennis is now moving northwards and may still be dangerous.
Florida, ...
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