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The hotel room rates, revenues and occupancy levels for UK and United States hotels are still under a lot of pressure as they continue to fall for the last three months of the year. In the United States, average daily rates slumped 5.9 percent to $96.04, according to data from STR. The industry’s occupancy levels also fell by 2.9 percent compared to 2008 to just 48.1 percent. Revenue per available room did not do any better and decreased by 8.6 percent year on year to finish at just $46.22.
Among the hotel chain segments, the upper upscale and the luxury segment [...]

Travel agents that are using the Amadeus booking platform will have guaranteed full content access to all of British Airways’ fares for yet another three years. This new deal means that consultants will have access to the same range of fares and inventory through Amadeus as they would through the airline’s website and at the same opt in level as those established in 2007.
The news came out just over a month after British Airways announced a full content deal with Travelport, the operator of both Worldspand and Galileo platforms. The third major global distribution system, Sabre, is yet to announce [...]

Apparently all of Eurostar’s services were suspended on Monday, December 21st due to problems. The company has also warned passengers that they may not be able to make it home for Christmas. Eurostar is urging all of its passengers that do not have to travel to change their travel dates or seek a refund. This way the passengers that do have to travel may be able to make it to their destination.
Eurostar has gone on to blame the disruption of services on the acute weather conditions in Northern France. The latest disruption follows the events that happened just last week, [...]

The Carnival Corporation, the largest cruise line conglomerate in the world, has hailed Europe’s cruise brands as their saviour in a year where they have taken a financial battering due to the economic downturn.
Carnival, which owns Cunard, Costa and P&O Cruises announced that its yearly profits to November fell from $2.3 billion to $1.8 billion. This still meant it retained its position as the world’s most financially profitable leisure travel company.
Fourth quarter profits for Carnival fell to $193 million, down from $371 million although total revenue remained consistent at $3.2 billion. Reactions to the recession at the beginning of the [...]

Scottish ministers have given the go ahead for a controversial new bypass to be built around Aberdeen. The move has been welcomed by local councils and businesses but has angered environmental groups. The 28-mile long bypass will cost between £295 million and £395 million and if approvals are signed off then building could commence as [...]

After an agonising wait, the delays that have affected some 30,000 passengers utilising the Eurostar Channel Tunnel should finally be over today. However, the company has acknowledged that thousands of people are unlikely to make it home in time for Christmas.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has demanded that services are operational by Tuesday, having ordered French rail head Guillaume Pepy to get traffic moving again and to install measures to prevent similar incidents occurring again. Traffic has been suspended between London and Paris as Eurostar undertakes testing to determine the cause of five tunnel breakdowns on Friday evening, leaving some 2,000 [...]