Travel Stockwatch

For the first time in many weeks, travel and tourism stocks soared ahead yesterday, with virtually no fallers among industry shares. The FTSE 100 index pushed ahead 43.1 points to close at 4397.3, with travel shares reflecting those gains. The day’s biggest winner was the cruise operator Carnival, which gained 47p after announcing that bookings were up 33 per cent on the same period last year. Shares in Carnival have now increased 45 per cent since it merged with P&O earlier this year. There was also a little festive cheer for lastminute.com; the shares moved ahead 13.75p to 219p on “vague takeover talk”, according to The Guardian’s City pages. Alpha Airports 77p NO CHANGE BAA 484p UP 19p British Airways 233p Up 8p Carnival 2217p UP 47p De Vere 407.25p UP 6.25p EasyJet 293.75p UP 5.25p Ebookers 395p UP 5p EuroDisney 30.5p NO CHANGE Eurotunnel 42.75p DOWN 0.75p First Choice 136.25p UP 1.75p Hilton Group 222.25p UP 4.5p Holidaybreak 520p NO CHANGE Intercontinental 540.75 UP 5.5p Jarvis Hotels 147p NO CHANGE Jury’s Doyle 687.58p DOWN 13.76p Lastminute.com 219p UP 13.75p MyTravel 10.5p DOWN 1.25p P&O 234.75p UP 1p Queens Moat 8.5p NO CHANGE Rank Group 276.5p NO CHANGE Ryanair 464.22p UP 4.63p Stagecoach 78.5p NO CHANGE TBI 69.5p UP 0.75p