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It now seems that British insurance companies are finally starting to give cover to tourists who are wishing to visit Kashmir. Earlier, the insurance companies in the UK were not giving any cover to British tourists to this area due to the advisory issues by the country. J&K tourism minister, Nawang Rigzin Jora, said that this shows some kind of softening on the British stand.
Many western countries have issued travel advisories to their citizens not to visit Kashmir after the abduction of six foreign tourists by Al Faran, a shadow outfit of Harkat ul Mujahideen near Pahalgam in July of [...]

According to one website, Simply Hired, the recession has pushed employees into traveling far out of their way to look for work. In fact, some studies even suggest that some Brits could be traveling more than three hours each way to work in order to protect their jobs.
The poll taken by Simply Hired also showed that 56 percent of respondents said they would be willing to take an increase in vacation entitlement rather than a pay rise to help keep company costs down. UK workers are doing everything in their power to make themselves more desirable to businesses.
When the workers [...]

New plans have just recently been unveiled for an ice and roller skating rink for one of the best known holiday parks, Pontins. This is part of the £5 million revamp that the park is getting.
A new village square complex and a fairground are also part of this upgrade. This upgrade is going to create 300 permanent and 200 construction jobs over the next three to five years. Also planned for this area is a new amusement arcade and a village square complex. As far as refurbishment goes, the site will see an upgrade to its theater, ballroom, restaurants and [...]

Those of us who are fed up of the winter weather may well be looking forward to getting away for some much needed summer sun. If Spain is the destination of choice then now is the time to book car hire through premier rental company Sixt Rent A Car. As of 6pm today Sixt is [...]

VisitBritain is the official website for information on travel and tourism in the United Kingdom, offering practical advice and great deals.
The latest offering sees the online specialist team up with both Easyjet and British Airways to provide a range of new promotions for British cities. The new advertising campaign is a continuation from the successful 2009 promotion which showcased the likes of London, Glasgow, Bristol, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester, Cardiff and Oxford. In keeping with last year’s formula the new campaign will see the VisitBritain site provide a valuable publicity boost for destination cities for the entire year.
The advertising on [...]

An investigation has been announced into suspected price fixing by South Africa’s domestic airlines ahead of this year’s football World Cup. The country’s competition watchdog is reacting to an offer by state run South African Airways who said that it will release incriminating email correspondence in exchange for leniency.
The flag carrier claims to have evidence [...]

Rental firms in the US have heaped yet more misery on the troubled car manufacturer after announcing the withdrawal of eight models from their hire fleets until repairs are made to over 3 million cars.
On Wednesday, Toyota issued a recall for 1.1 million vehicles owing to an existing floor mat recall. The timing could not have been worse given Toyota has recently recalled another 2.3 million vehicles over sudden acceleration issues. Wednesday further saw statements issues from three leading hire car operators of their decision to pull the eight models which themselves have been mired by poor sales figures.
Launched in [...]

Emirates Airlines has just recently announced its plans to launch direct services to Tokyo, Japan’s capital city and one of the world’s foremost economic centers. Tokyo will now serve as Emirate Airlines’ 102nd international destination, following the recent launch of operations to Durban and Luanda in October of 2009. Now with the introduction of flights to Tokyo, Emirates will be able to offer two nonstop services between Japan and Dubai, as the airline already operates daily services to Osaka.
Emirates will fly nonstop to Tokyo five times a week on every Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday starting March 28, 210. [...]

Reports have now come in that show a hotel night porter from Wolverhampton has been cleared of all rape and sexual assault charges after a jury decided a teenage mother had lied about him attacking her. The man, Charles Mukendu, age 34, had been accused of raping the 18 year old girl at the Premier Inn in the city center on August 9th of last year.
After the jury returned their decision just earlier this week, Mr Mukendu and his family reportedly dropped to their knees in the court and started to call out thanks to the members of the [...]

As a way to drag itself out of its financial troubles, Aer Lingus has just recently unveiled a new business model. The former state carrier is now branding itself as Ireland’s civilized airline as part of its plan to reposition itself between low cost Ryanair and full service British Airways. Thus, this could be the new airline for mid-class passengers.
Aer Lingus hopes to raise its shares in the business travel market by offering faster check in times and pre-paid meals. At the same time, Aer Lingus will not offer premium lounges and free food and drinks that are associated with [...]

As Lebanese army personnel continue to recover debris from the sea after an Ethiopian Airlines jet crashed in a ball of flames early on Monday morning, officials have announced that the flight’s black-box recorders have been located. They are said to be 10km off the coast and 1,300ft below the sea’s surface. At present the [...]

Simon Crean, the Australian Minister for Trade, has spoken out against the latest British tax hike on air travel, claiming that the new measures discriminate against those travellers bound for down under.
Since November last year the UK government has implemented air passenger duty increases under the guise of protecting the environment from harmful emissions which they claim can be off-set by price hikes by way of compensation. The tax changes are based solely on travelling distance meaning that tickets for distant destinations are subject to significantly higher levies than short haul travel. What this ultimately has meant is that Australian-bound [...]