The government have featured a number of times in my rants lately and if I am not careful I’ll have the MI5 people tracking my every move. Well, funnily enough, they won’t have to if the government gets it’s way on creating a database tracking ...

I am not keen on the idea of companies dominating a specific niche within travel, but the news this week that US giant Home Away has acquired another European holiday rental company did not surprise me and it was only a matter of time. Effect on ...

I have ranted about how we need to improve the number of tourists up here in the North of England so a press release received from travel magazine, Wanderlust, caught my attention. It highlights six of the world’s most threatened wonders. It’s not a topic I ...

It is heating up, the press releases are starting to flood into the Travel Rants inbox, and one that caught my attention was from Thomson on one of those dreaded travel surveys, but for a change it has an interesting stat that I wanted to ...

Sat reading the newspaper this morning it was interesting to read that 3 million Brits will be travelling abroad over the Christmas holidays. ABTA were quoted as saying that the economic downturn did not seem to be having an impact on the number of people ...