Twenty per cent of UK holidaymakers have reportedly made false claims relating to travel insurance, according to a survey of 2,000 adults. According to a survey by Direct Line Travel Insurance, the most common falsified claims relate to cameras, clothing, jewellery and cash. The ...

After a slushy start, the US ski season looks set to run into May. And it’s bargain time, says Mark Hodson. You thought the ski season was all over. It isn’t yet. Huge falls of snow in America and Canada in the past fortnight ...

For the first time in two years, the State Department is not flatly telling Americans to avoid travel to Israel. With terrorist incidents in decline, the department urged Americans only to "carefully weigh" the necessity of travel to Israel. A flat-out warning not to ...

Booking a beach house this summer shouldn't be a headache. Larger inventory, later booking patterns, more properties posted on the Internet and rates not far above last year's mean surf-and-sand lovers don't have to sweat yet, say rental agencies across the USA. "Like the last ...

UK holidaymakers are adopting a more self-service approach to travel and are increasingly turning to the Internet to book their holidays. Daniel Thomas reports As the holiday season moves into full swing people are scrambling to escape the miserable, unpredictable British weather, and an increasing ...

By 2009, half of all holidays will be booked online, according to research by two of Britain's principal travel companies. Thomson, the UK's largest tour operator, said about 23 per cent of its sales were over the internet and the figure would rise to ...

The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) released its 2005 Travel & Tourism forecasts for 174 countries and the world and an assessment of the impact of the Indian Ocean Tsunami on the industry today at the 5th Global Travel & Tourism Summit in New ...

Hotels.com says its new VacationSpot.com is the first Web site allowing consumers to book instantly thousands of vacation rental properties that include condominiums, suites, villas and vacation homes. Said Dan Proctor, vice president of vacation rentals at VacationSpot.com: We live in bigger houses with more beds ...