Love to do it? Hate to plan it?

Travelling with friends and family? A new survey conducted by the world's leading travel search engine reveals that nearly 50 percent of Americans are stressed out when travel planning for friends and family, with the U.S. ranking second among the most stressed out of all the countries polled.

Enter KAYAK Trip Huddle, a new tool to help take the pain out of planning group travel. KAYAK looked at some of the top pain points for planning trips – choosing accommodations, selecting a destination and coordinating travel schedules, which collectively stress out 57% of Americans – and created a tool to address each and every one of them. 

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State of the Art Holiday Bookings at Lakeside

A NEW state of the art Thomson store opened at the end of September providing a new, improved and exciting holiday booking experience at Lakeside. The new Holiday Design Store boasts a touch screen interactive map which offers in-depth information on exotic destinations and videos of resorts and hotels, plus dedicated booking booths with screens to bring holidays to life in the booking process.

It is also home to an Advice Bar with a dedicated self-service computer for customers to access reviews, excursions and visa information, or even book their own holiday – with staff on hand to answer questions, provide expert knowledge and offer a personalised holiday planning service.

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Safety fears affect Brits’ holiday planning

MORE Brits are likely to take a short UK break this year – and more are considering personal safety issues when planning their travels, according to research.

A poll of more than 1,000 UK residents found that 73% will have a short ‘staycation’ this year, up from 71% in 2015. But only a quarter (24%) plan to have a longer break of more than four nights in the UK, according to the findings by research consultancy BDRC Continental.

The study found that Brits are increasingly concerned about personal safety overseas, and more than three quarters (77%) of Britons see safety as an issue in holiday planning.

The results ‘point towards a volatile world situation creating a “safety-first” British holiday-maker’, say the report’s authors.

Jon Young, research director at BDRC Continental, said: ‘It’s no surprise that the issue of safety has taken on such prominence given the tragic world events in the last 12 months or so.

The study also revealed that almost half of respondents (46%) trust online reviews to be accurate and a similar proportion (48%) take more notice of reviews than star ratings.

The Scottish Highlands, Cornwall, the Lake District, and London are the four most popular UK destinations, says the report.

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GoEuro launches in France

GOEURO.CO.UK, the search engine for comparing and booking rail, coach, and flight travel across Europe, has announced the launch of its full service in #France after signing a new partnership with the French railway operator, SNCF.

Travellers can now plan trips to more than 30,000 destinations all over France and across Europe – not only cities and airports but also rail, coach, and air travel options in a single search, eliminating the need to visit multiple websites to plan their entire journey … all in the user’s native language and currency.

Naren Shaam, CEO and founder of GoEuro said: ‘The addition of France is great for our users and a milestone for GoEuro. We launched less than three years ago, at a time when this form of simple online search was available only for air travel.’

Guillaume Pepy, CEO of SNCF commented: ‘France is the most visited destination in the world and rail, as the most competitive mode of transport, is the quintessential way to explore it. Through this partnership, GoEuro users are able compare and discover the convenience and great service SNCF has to offer.’

GoEuro now covers all rail, coach, and air travel in 11 markets which have a total population of 400 million and an additional 300 million foreign visitors each year.

France alone has more than 83 million visitors annually, and the French transportation network adds more than 3,000 train stations, 450 bus terminals, and 91 airports to the GoEuro system, enabling travellers to reach more than 30,000 European destinations in France as well as the UK, Germany, Spain, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, and Italy.

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