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World Travel Market Vision Conference Research Revealed

The UK travel industry will remain at the mercy of the local and global economy this year, with the London 2012 Olympics creating as many challenges as opportunities, reveals research unveiled ...

Caribbean Airlines

Caribbean Airlines to launch Gatwick-Trinidad service

WEST SUSSEX, England - New non-stop services between Gatwick and Trinidad will commence 14 June 2012.

Booking rooms in Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace

Queen to open bedrooms to public

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Visitors to London will be able to book rooms and suites in Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace during the 2012 Olympics period.

Top destinations during the June bank holiday

Europe entices Brits away from Queen’s Jubilee celebrations

LONDON, England – Despite the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations being a major UK event this year, many Brits are looking to take advantage of the long weekend by holidaying across ...

Only 7 percent of Brits to attend London Olympics

The Olympics? We'd rather go on holiday!

LONDON, England - Only 7% of Brits to attend the London Olympics as homeowners tap in to the potential and rent out their property.

Report: UK consumer appetite for entertainment still there

British Museum tops Tate Modern and Buckingham Palace when it comes to going out

LONDON, England - The latest figures from the Office of National Statistics show that every household in the UK has GBP430 less to spend today than they did in 2010, as household disposable income ...

Mexican Tourists Turned Burglars Sentenced In UK

Mexican visitors go on crime spree to finance UK vacation

Six Mexican holidaymakers went on a burglary spree across the UK after they ran out of money on a tour of Premier League football stadiums, a court heard yesterday.

France spent over £500,000 advertising wrong beach

France tempts UK tourists with Cape Town beach

The images of beautiful beaches accompanied by humorous slogans were meant to tempt British tourists over to France during the London Olympics.

Unique B2B platform

Mystifly launches MyFareBox in the UK

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Notting Hill Carnival Roadshow

UK congratulates Seychelles on carnival

Claire Holder OBE, the Managing Director of UK’s most popular and most known carnival group, the Notting Hill Carnival Roadshow, has written to Alain St.Ange, the Seychelles Minister responsible ...

Big Ben may become Queen Elizabeth Tower

UK lawmakers want to rename Big Ben after Queen Elizabeth

LONDON, England - British lawmakers want to rename one of London's most famous landmarks -- known to tourists around the world as "Big Ben" -- after Queen Elizabeth II, for her Diamond ...

Blurry Borders Get Israeli Advert Banned In Britain

UK bans Israeli tourism ad after hundreds of complaints

Ad, promoting book on northern Israel, evokes no less than 350 complaints to the ASA, which oversees and regulates the advertising industry in the UK.

UK: Greece must invest in promoting its tourist industry

UK warns Greece to calm tourist fears or face further economic decline

The Greek government has been warned that it must invest in promoting its tourist industry – or face further economic decline as holidaymakers turn away from the troubled country.

Top tourism source markets in Cape Town

UK and US still potentially big draw for Cape Town arrivals

The UK and USA, two of Cape Town’s top five tourism key source markets, have both been adversely affected by the global recession but, if targeted correctly, still hold significant potential to ...

Air Travel to UK during Olympic Games

Airlines: Airport chaos would be major embarrassment to UK

The heads of four leading airlines have warned the British government there could be chaos at London's airports during this summer's Olympic Games, which would cause major embarrassment to the ...

Restructuring of Tourist offices

Seychelles UK Tourist Office Manager returns to South Africa post

The Seychelles islands have announced today that its Manager at the head of its Tourist Office in the United Kingdom, Marsha Parcou, is set to return to her previous post in South Africa, as the ...

Air Passenger Duty tax hitting travel and economy hard

UK air tax costs 91,000 jobs

New research by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) shows that removing Air Passenger Duty would result in an additional 91,000 British jobs being created and £4.2 billion added to the ...

Scots are the most and English the least well-traveled in UK

One in four Brits has never been to Wales or Scotland

LONDON, England - With one million more Brits traveling this year, but spending 4% less on average (1,920 per household pounds Sterling)*, it is expected that more holidaymakers look closer to ...

Guest of Government Visit to UK

President of Seychelles meets HM Queen Elizabeth II

President James Michel of the Seychelles has attended an audience with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, during his Guest of Government visit to the United Kingdom.

Britain welcomes more visitors than ever from Middle East

Mideast tourism to UK on the rise

Britain welcomed more visitors than ever from the Middle East last year and the trend is set to continue throughout 2012, according to VisitBritain, the UK’s national tourist authority.

Ohio tourist safe and well in South Wales

Missing US 'Facebook tourist' found in Wales

A US tourist who went missing after visiting Facebook friends in Wales has been found safe and well, say police.

Excitement builds over Carnaval International de Victoria

Seychelles carnival welcomes addition of UK groups

The excitement surrounding the “Carnaval International de Victoria” seems to be spreading far and wide as Seychellois communities overseas embrace the event with as much enthusiasm as the ...

Paradise islands a welcomed break for UK group

Notting Hill Carnival to join in Seychelles festivities

The Notting Hill Carnival Roadshow Company has confirmed that they will be present again this year at the “Carnaval International de Victoria” in the Seychelles.

Top five places to propose in Britain

Lake District most popular place for proposal in UK

When it comes to getting down on one knee, it seems more Britons would choose the muddy hills in England's largest National Park than anywhere else in the UK.

VisitBritain: London drier than Rio de Janeiro

UK: Come on tourists, British weather not THAT bad

British government is to use the UK's most changeable feature to promote the country by trying to convince visitors the weather is not as bad as people think, it was claimed.

Consumers look to escape the reality of British winter

Brits browse holidays to banish winter blues

LONDON, England - It seems Brits just can't wait to get away from it all this year, with more consumers then ever going online to book or get inspiration for their holidays.

Dubai Tourism

Dubai expected to be top winter destination in 2012

Dubai will be a top destination in 2012, as increasing numbers of Brits head abroad on holidays to Dubai.

Gram Hotel Sustainable Champion of the Year Award

Radisson Blu Edinburgh named most environmentally conscious hotel in UK

BRUSSELS - Radisson Blu Edinburgh has been crowned Gram Hotel Sustainable Champion of the Year by Gram UK, the award-winning manufacturer of energy efficient commercial refrigeration.

Transfer agreement

UK and Denmark supports Seychelles in fight against piracy

International cooperation to counter the increasing threat of piracy has led to the successful detention of 18 suspected pirates who will be transferred to, and possibly prosecuted, in ...

Reciprocal thank yous all around

Seychelles strengthens bonds with UK

The January 14, 2012 press and tour operator lunch, sponsored by Seychelles in London, has been well received by the trade in the United Kingdom.

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