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Travel Extras ceases trading
Phil Davies - Oct 21, 2025
Holiday add-on firm Travel Extras has ceased trading. The company, which also ran Connect Rent-a-Car, offered airport car parking and…
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lastminute.com introduces Holiday TV to website
Phil Davies - Oct 21, 2025
Free to view travel television is to be aired on lastminute.com’s website. Footage of leading destinations such as Florida, Kenya…
Traditional service values still key to travel consumers, poll reveals
Phil Davies - Oct 21, 2025
Almost half of customers of travel companies want an agent to talk to while completing online transactions, new research shows.…
Operators act to assist Brits as Hurricane Wilma approaches
Phil Davies - Oct 21, 2025
Around 8,500 British holidaymakers in Mexico face the prospect of being in the path of Hurricane Wilma. ABTA confirmed the…
Conferences to merge in 2006
- Oct 21, 2025
Advantage business agents will have to mix with their leisure counterparts next year as the consortium confirmed it will stage…
WTM set to break records
Phil Davies - Oct 21, 2025
More than 120 new exhibitors have signed up for this year’s World Travel Market. WTM will see an increase of…
Eurotunnel shed 900 jobs
- Oct 21, 2025
Eurotunnel has made 900 staff redundant under its voluntary redundancy programme as talks continue with creditors over its reported £6…
Brisbane Airport $4.5 million upgrade
Graham Muldoon - Oct 20, 2025
Work has begun on a $4.5 million road system upgrade at the Brisbane Domestic terminal. According to BAC Executive Manager…
Multiples treat customers ‘like a number’ says ex-Lunn Poly boss
- Oct 20, 2025
Multiples treat their customers as little more than a number with little interest in getting to know them or establishing…
Miniple agency goes bust
Phil Davies - Oct 20, 2025
An agency group with 13 offices nationwide selling cheap holidays has folded. ABTA member P.A. Travel based in Blackburn was…
Cendant UK tour operating boss quits
Phil Davies - Oct 20, 2025
Cendant’s UK Vacation Rental Group managing director Martin Leppard is standing down from the company. He is to leave at…
Teenager’s airline to take off
Phil Davies - Oct 20, 2025
Teenage airline entrepreneur Martin Halsted is poised to launch his first flights. The 19-year-old's new entrant carrier Alpha One Airways…
