Last night I was walking past the local travel agencies in the town centre and I realised how boring and un-inspirational the street windows are. Dull plain cards with the latest deals, nothing to stop me in my tracks and inspire me to book a ...

Well It’s been a busy week here at Travel Rants HQ [well my living room]. I survived being interrogated by Mark at Planet Eye and Gareth at ASAP Ventures about my thoughts on travel. Phew. Who said managing a blog was easy work. Creating a ...

When I book a flight I am forced to pay a handling fee, I have no alternative method of payment other than debit card. What do the airlines physically do to handle my payment. It costs companies between £0.30 - £0.50 pence per transaction, but ...

It seems to be that time of the year where holidaymakers are heading to destinations like Tenerife and the Canary Islands and are being ripped off by so called holiday clubs and timeshare schemes. I cannot believe that holidaymakers are still being taken by this ...

As a travel consumer I am frustrated with the travel industry and it’s apparent lack of consideration for the environment and global warming. ABTA are holding their annual convention in Gran Canaria later this year, flying over 645 delegates, plus media. Venue for the ABTA 2008 ...

From previous experiences some travel companies use the internet to hide behind their website but I want to be able to communicate online, not forced to use a premium telephone number. I contacted five travel companies to see who was the easiest to communicate with ...

Interested to read that a number of airlines will be running “ghost flights” through the winter i.e. flights with very few passengers on board to ensure that they keep the route. It doesn’t sound very environmentally friendly. It’s no wonder that passengers are having to ...

I recently wrote about how the travel industry likes to think that it cares about the environment and global warming, and I invited a number of companies like Travel Trade Gazette, to prove me wrong, well, they didn’t because none of them commented. I think they're ...