Superbreak Mini-Holidays, the York based, short break specialist, won no fewer than four awards at the prestigious annual Globe Travel Awards 2010. Superbreak were up against 30 other travel businesses across the four categories that they were nominated in, but managed to scoop all four and are the first individual ...
January 28th 2010
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Kuoni, the luxury travel operator with over 100 years' experience of the travel market, has scored its first retailing hat trick this month. The holiday operator has opened three brand new chic travel stores in major retailing heartlands, Bluewater, the centre: mk and Penn Street, Bristol, creating no fewer than ...
Eurostar, the high-speed passenger train service that links the UK and mainland Europe, has announced its annual figures for the year ended 31 December 2009.
Ticket sales for 2009 totalled a record £675.5 million, an increase of 1.7% on 2008, asEurostar welcomed 9.2 million travellers throughout the year. The volume of ...
January 26th 2010
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Despite frozen pipes, blocked roads and cancelled flights, it seems that most Brits enjoyed the recent ‘Big Freeze’ which saw the entire UK snowbound.
In a poll run by leading cheap flights search site Skyscanner, 64% of people voted that the Big Freeze was a good thing. With more cold, snowy weather ...
January 26th 2010
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With the Vancouver Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games coming up in February (12th-28th 2010), cheap flights search engine Skyscanner reports a 71% increase in flight searches to Vancouver compared to this time last year.
Vancouver itself is a ski city, with three ski areas within the city limits: Grouse, Seymour and Cypress ...
January 25th 2010
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The opening of the Premier Inn Dubai International Airport follows two successful openings in Dubai over the last 18 months, as well as the first Premier Inn hotel in Bangalore India which opened towards the end of 2009.
Situated immediately opposite Dubai International Airport Terminals 1 and 3 and with a free shuttle ...
January 25th 2010
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The Rezidor Hotel Group has opened the Park Inn Oslo. The new hotel features 118 rooms is the company's sixth hotel in the Norwegian capital.
"This opening underlines the importance our Nordic home markets have for us", commented Kurt Ritter, president and CEO of Rezidor. "At the same time it further ...
January 22nd 2010
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Premier Inn has been recognised for the third consecutive year at the prestigious Business Travel Awards, regarded as the business travel industries' benchmark for excellence. This year Premier Inn was again named as the 2010 'Best Hotel Group' - one of the most coveted awards of the night.
Premier Inn, with ...
January 22nd 2010
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Erroneous reports in the British tabloid media this week stated that French flag carrier, Air France, will force overweight flyers to pay for two seats, or they will be prevented from boarding for 'safety reasons'.
However, Air France has officially denied the accusation, stating on their website that ‘Air France has ...
Superbreak, the short break specialist, has launched more than 200 new Valentine's Day deals for 2010.
Marketing director Will Dunnett explained: "We have seen so much interest in Valentine's Day this year because it once again falls on a weekend. We have doubled the number of specially contracted Valentine's packages especially ...
January 20th 2010
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Two thirds of travellers are in favor of plans to install body scanners in airports, according to the latest poll on the travel search site Skyscanner.
The cheap flights search engine found that 66% voted that airport scanners were a good idea as they would speed up security checks and improve security, ...
Butlins is proud to announce that for the first time at a UK holiday centre, and exclusive to them, stars of both X-Factor and Britain’s Got Talent will be appearing in the same live shows at the three beachside Resorts, Bognor Regis, Minehead and Skegness, in 2010.
Many of the stars are ...
January 19th 2010
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Travel search site Skyscanner has seen a huge rise in flight searches to Vancouver in the run up to this year’s games.
With the Vancouver Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games coming up in February (12th-28th 2010), cheap flights search engine Skyscanner reports a 71% increase in flight searches to Vancouver compared to ...
January 19th 2010
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From today, every booking that you make through Destinology will result in a £5 donation to the Haiti Earthquake Appeal.
In view of the terrible events in Haiti Destinology have been liaising with Plan UK on how they could possibly assist the disaster recovery programme in place. Plan UK staff are ...
January 18th 2010
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Hotels.com, the world's leading accommodation booking website, has revealed an increase in searches for winter sun holiday destinations among Irish travellers in the first two weeks of January this year when compared with the same period in 2009.
The increased searches for winter sun destinations on Hotels.com indicate that the Irish ...
January 18th 2010
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Ski Line has untaken a massive overhaul of their website in order to intergrate multiple different information feeds into their website in order to be a one stop shop of all skiing information and what with the call center only manned by experienced skiers.
Skiline offers any person who loves to ski, ...
January 15th 2010
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The Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the fastest growing hotel companies worldwide, has announced the construction of a new 237 room hotel in Russia - the Park Inn Lipetsk. The new hotel is scheduled to open its doors in 2012.
The Park Inn hotel will be located on a prime site ...
January 15th 2010
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Mercury Direct, a leading provider of package holidays in the UK, has announced the release of its summer 2010 brochure offering a number of brand new destinations.
Highlighted holidays in the brochure include a brand new selection of all inclusive holidays. Of particular note is the new Cuba all inclusive holidays and Thailand ...
January 15th 2010
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Whitbread, the UK's leading hotel and restaurant group, has confirmed details of its plans for a second green hotel and its first low-carbon restaurant.
The Burgess Hill Premier Inn, in West Sussex, represents the latest evolution in environmentally-friendly budget hotels. It follows Whitbread's pioneering green hotel pilot in Tamworth, Staffordshire - the ...
Thomas & Friends, Brainiac Live, Baby Loves Disco and Guinness World Records are all part of this year’s line up
The UK’s biggest investor in live entertainment, spending in excess of £10m annually, Butlins entertainment for 2010 looks even better than ever. There are loads of new and exciting things for ...
