Travel News

18 January 2014

Half of holidaymakers don’t trust holiday booking apps

A new research by an online travel agency www.sunshine.co.uk conducted the poll as part of an ongoing research into the holiday booking habits of Britons. The research has uncovered an ...
10 January 2014

Are you hooked?

We are all guilty of posting meaningless Facebook statuses, browsing our Twitter feeds every half an hour and sharing our best pouts on Instagram several times a day. It has become ...
13 December 2013

The great Christmas escape

With only 11 days left until Christmas and the ‘to do’ list ever growing, lastminute.com have revealed that 16 per cent of Brits are desperate to get away from the annual festivities. One ...
13 December 2013

Travellers are getting too freebie happy

We understand taking the mini toiletries from a hotel room, but batteries out of the TV remote? That’s definitely a step too far. More than two in three British travellers have ...
8 December 2013

Exclusive interview with Andy N Robinson and Kirsty McGregor

Group travel is NOT a holiday; it is a life experience. It’s NOT a Holiday! is a true, yet funny look at group tours. In the book we discuss 20 ...

5 December 2013

Would you give up your job to travel?

Research from IXPVisa.com, a visa application help website in the UK, revealed that 35 per cent of Brits said that they would take an ‘unskilled job’ in another country to secure ...
22 October 2013

Is your name Bridget Jones? Well start reaping the benefits!

We talk  to Lynda Matthews, from LateRooms.com on how Bridget Jones has kicked up a fuss in the website's offices!  When did you first find out Late.Rooms.com was mentioned in the ...
15 October 2013

Brits are full of airport rage!

Why are Brits prone to airport rage?   The British travellers we polled said that customer service is the biggest trigger of air rage for them (11%). Overbearing security (8%), flight delays ...
11 October 2013

Top ten strangest and naughtiest holiday booking requests!

Lastminute.com customer service enquiries over the summer reported some of the strangest holiday booking requests that they encountered and David Beatley talks us through them! A bum complaint: One lucky customer ...
10 October 2013

Top ten unknown travel destinations!

We talk to the CEO of GoEuro Naren Shaam about these hidden gems and why it is important to travel to them. 1.       Norway: West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord 2.       Austria: Salzburg 3.       Portugal: Laurisilva ...
8 October 2013

Exclusive interview with Chris Clarkson

What is airline snobbery? Our poll revealed that many people have a tendency to pick the airline they will fly with based on the fellow passengers they are likely to encounter. ...
24 September 2013

The UK’s best hotel secrets revealed

Choosing the perfect hotel can be a nightmare, but thanks to the Best Kept Secret Awards, that Femalefirst even helped to judge, you can have your pick of the best ...
20 September 2013

Strangest Visa application questions!

Global Visas.com has put together a top ten list of random questions asked by people looking to get a visa for 12 months and you will not believe some of ...
19 September 2013

A quarter of children have never been on holiday!

Sunshine.co.uk has found that the recession has had an impact on today’s children when it comes to their holiday experiences. One in four children under the age of ten have ...
19 September 2013

Brits are boozy on holiday!

68% of Brits reveal that they drink more on holiday than they would when they are at home, with a worrying 18% drinking 7 drinks on an average day abroad. ...
5 September 2013

Modern Bilingual Holiday Makers Take a Bite Out Of Unadventurous 80's Image

The Post Office survey has found out that the stereotypical Briton image of sunburnt, loud and demanding a full English  whilst getting mardy with the waiters who do not converse in ...
4 September 2013

The rise of the bedtime bookers: 1 in 5 women research holidays in bed

More women were found to plan their holidays in bed in comparison to men, reveals hotels.com research done on behalf of their mobile app. This app is free to download ...
4 September 2013

Sacrebleu! British travellers risk misuse of hand gestures abroad

When asked about using hand gestures, it turns out that more British holiday-goers (60%) admitted to using hand-gestures to aid communication, in comparison to the French (46%) and Italians (48%) ...

4 September 2013

We Want Live Comedy Acts As In-Flight Entertainment Poll Reveals

When you are on a long-haul flight you will need to find something that will amuse or entertain you so TripAdvisor conducted a poll to see what us Britons like ...
4 September 2013

Cornwall - Most Popular Holiday Home Location in UK

Cornwall came out top destination in the UK as Britons choice for where they would most like to have a holiday home - revealed by some new site data by ...
4 September 2013

Text Beats Type on Holiday

In recent times, there has been a new trend, something so fantastic we thought books were going to become extinct.E-books came around, flaunting the prospect of allowing the  owner to download ...

3 September 2013

Holidaymakers Make ‘Tan Tourism’ a Priority

This is because some research was conducted by an travel agency based online, where a poll was done to reveal that most Britons priorities on holiday are surprisingly different to ...
30 August 2013

Only 6% of Brits know the Seven Wonders of the World

Bon Voyage found that only 6% of Brits know what the Seven Wonders of the World are. Only 21% could name two and a huge 61% could only name one! ...
25 August 2013

Brits spend 2 days of their holiday on tech devices!

Lastminute.com found that 90% of Brits on holiday spend 4 hours a day on their tech devices, which equates to two days of their holiday!   It would seem everything that a ...