Showing posts with label hmmmm!. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hmmmm!. Show all posts

Monday, 1 June 2015

Anyone for underwater tennis?

FROM the You-Couldn’t-Make-It-Up-But-Somebody-Has Department comes a proposal for an underwater tennis stadium in Dubai.

The idea has been served up by Krysztof Kotala, a Polish architect, who says a good spot for an underwater tennis complex would be offshore in the Persian Gulf between Burj al Arab and the Palm Jumeirah islands.

His plan is for a sports arena covered by a rooftop coral reef enabling, presumably, spectators to watch the fish when the tennis gets boring. A single piece of glass large enough to cover the structure and strong enough to withstand the water pressure would be required … along with vast amounts of cash and optimism.


Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK

Picture Credit: Palm Jumeirah on 19 January 2008 by Imre Solt - Dubai Construction Update Part 10 Page 15 at Post 281.. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons 

Monday, 18 May 2015

The questions they ask!


THE American Society of Travel Agents has published some of the strangest – and stupidest – questions asked by customers planning vacations. Here are some of them:

‘It’s clear that some travellers need a little more hand-holding than others,’ said Zane Kerby, the society’s president.


  • Do they speak English in Britain?
  • Can you please book the honeymoon suite for us and another couple?
  • Can you please plan a honeymoon for me, my bride and my mother?
  • Can you guarantee that no pet has ever been in the hotel room?
  • Can you book two rooms in different parts of the resort: one for me and my wife, and the other for my girlfriend?
  • Does the crew actually sleep onboard the cruise ship?

  • Don’t tell my fiance that this is where I took my first wife for our honeymoon.
  • I would like to go somewhere where there are NOT a lot of men.
  • Are there toll roads on the way to Hawaii?
  • How can I get to Europe without going by air or sea?
  • I’d like to visit Scotland and Denmark on the same trip. (The agent tells the client that he does not have time in his schedule to travel the distance). But they’re only an inch apart on the map!


Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK

Picture Credit: ASTA logo by Source. Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia

Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Americans ‘too busy’ for vacations

RESEARCH by Alamo Rent A Car found that 40 percent of US workers who received paid holiday as a job benefit did not use all of their available vacation days. 

When asked why they didn't use all of their days, 47 percent said they were too busy at work. 

‘Our research indicates that work increasingly remains top of mind for many people, even when they're vacationing with their families,’ said Rob Connors at Alamo Rent A Car.

The research revealed that younger American workers are finding it increasingly difficult to leave work behind, with 35 percent of millennials reporting that they work every day while on vacation.


Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK

Picture Credit: GoHoliday via Wikimedia Commons

Monday, 4 May 2015

Athens ‘cheapest city’ for breaks in Western Europe



THE Post Office's annual Travel Money City Costs Barometer has found Athens to be the cheapest city for visitors in Western Europe.

The barometer collects data on costs for city break visitors, including a three-course dinner with wine – which in Athens averaged at £29.15 for two – drinks, two nights' accommodation, airport transfers, sightseeing attractions, and city transport.


Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK

Picture Credit: "Panoramic view of Athen" by Andreas Trepte - Own work via Wikimedia Commons.

Tuesday, 28 April 2015

Brits get set for city breaks

MORE than 42 million Brits, or 83% of the population, have booked, or are thinking of booking, a city-break this year, according to research by Jet2Holidays.

The Jet2holidays research, based on survey involving 1,000 respondents, revealed that the average person had been on seven European city breaks and 11 UK city breaks. Only 10 per cent had never taken one, and 2% of respondents had been on 51 or more.

Respondents were asked to name Europe’s friendliest cities. Amsterdam topped the poll, followed by Barcelona, Paris, Rome, and Venice.

Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK

Sunday, 5 April 2015

FGW promises train upgrade

THE largest fleet upgrade in a generation is being promised by rail operator FirstGroup as it won the right to continue operating the First Great Western (FGW) franchise until 2019.

Additional and more frequent services using faster trains with free Wi-Fi will cut journey times from London to Oxford, Bristol, South Wales, Devon, and Cornwall.

Key commuter routes, including Bristol, Exeter, Oxford and Gatwick, will see increased capacity in addition to 16% more peak time seats into and out of London Paddington station.

Approximately three million additional seats a year are to be added to the network by 2018.

The rail operator is to introduce Hitachi's Intercity Express trains between London, Bristol, South Wales, and the Cotswolds from summer 2017.

A £50 million investment is planned to improve stations and car parks, introducing 2,000 more car parking spaces.


Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK

Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Seniors holidaying dangerously

A SURVEY involving more than 11,000 UK holidaymakers has found the vacation habits of the over-50s have changed dramatically in the past decade.

50-plus travellers are becoming more adventurous, according to the Saga survey.

More than one quarter of respondents predict their holiday habits will change in the future and this is most notable amongst 50-59 year olds.

‘As people approach retirement, they can start to think more about how they will spend their free time,’ said Saga Travel’s Louis Myers. ‘Who wouldn’t want to spend that time abroad and seeing the world? With more disposable incomes and a thirst for adventure, taking holidays off the beaten track and experiencing different cultures is an enticing way to enjoy your retirement.

‘We see more over-50s opting for adventures in the Borneo rainforest, or following the Silk Routes in Uzbekistan, rather than taking a week in Eastbourne – as lovely as it is.’


Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK

Picture Credit: "Eldre, Karen Beate Nosterud - norden.org" by Karen Beate Nøsterud -/norden.org. via Wikimedia Commons; "Rainforest understory in Lambir Hills National Park" by Mike Shanahan (Own work)  via Wikimedia Commons

Friday, 20 March 2015

Currency clowns .... Right country, WRONG cash!

A STUDY by an on-line travel agency in the UK has suggested that one in seven Britons has taken the wrong currency on holiday with them.

The majority of those who took the wrong currency to Turkey had taken euros, with the same mistake made by people who took them to Egypt. Many took US dollars to Canada, and some did not realize that the Irish republic no longer uses the UK£.

Go Holiday editor comments: Should people who do this be considered old or adult enough to travel abroad?


Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK

Picture Credit: GoHoliday via Wikimedia Commons.

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

Disney's on-gate price breaches $100

ON-THE-GATE ticket prices at prices Walt Disney World in Orlando have risen to more than $100 (£64.70) a day for the first time. 

A 6% hike means that single-day admission costs $111.83 (£72.35), including tax.

The increase applies to anyone aged 10 or over, while younger children aged three to nine will pay $99 (£64).


Ticket prices have doubled since 2003.

Rates for the company’s three other Orlando resorts will rise by 3% to $97. At Disneyland and the Disney California Adventure parks in Anaheim, California, tickets will rise 3% to $99.

A Disney spokeswoman said: ‘We continually add new offerings and experiences, and many of our guests select multi-day tickets or annual passes, which provide a great value and additional savings.’

Simon Applebaum, consumer marketing director at Floridatix.com said: ‘Booking theme park tickets in advance from the UK, rather than on-the-gate once you arrive, can seriously help customers save money. Especially in Florida and the US, when the exchange rate is forecast to worsen, booking ahead of time is highly beneficial for holidaymakers. One benefit is that they can effectively ‘freeze’ the amount they pay in pounds, and budget accordingly.’


Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK





Picture Credit: "Disney World, Orlando" by Juliancolton (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Edinburgh’s World Heritage status challenged

EDINBURGH should be stripped of its UNESCO World Heritage status – that’s the view of David Black, the first chairman of the city’s Southside Association, which monitors planning and environmental developments in the city.

He is writing a report that deplores planning and architectural decisions affecting the city’s historic centre, and plans to send it to the international heritage body in New York with a request to have Edinburgh's UNESCO status – granted in 1995 – removed.

‘At the time, Edinburgh was seen as a prime example of an old town and new town co-existing well,’ Mr Black told the Edinburgh Evening News. ‘But since then we have seen one poor planning decision after another, from St Andrew Square to the Parliament building and Princes Street.’

Decisions which he finds particularly distasteful include plans to turn the 190-year-old Royal High School into a five-star hotel.

‘This is not just some old fogey talking who doesn’t like anything modern. I like the Festival Theatre, for example. But I think there is a balance to be struck between preserving the best of the new – and what we’re getting generally is not the best.’

Of the 28 UNESCO World Heritage sites in the United Kingdom and its overseas territories, only three are entire cities or towns: Edinburgh, Bath, and St. George on Bermuda.


Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK

Picture Credit: "Scottish Parliament" by gren - Self-published work by gren via Wikimedia Commons

Thursday, 26 February 2015

££££s lost by West Country rail closure

LAST year’s closure of the mainline railway linking Devon and Cornwall in England could have cost the UK economy from £60 million to £1.2 billion, says the Devon Maritime Forum (DMF). 

Train services to Cornwall – one of Britain’s main holiday regions – were stopped after tracks were washed into the sea at Dawlish in early 2014 during severe storms. The forum said all industries were hit by the destruction of the line.

The track was re-opened in April at a cost of £35 million.


Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK

Picture Credit: GoHoliday source

Tuesday, 17 February 2015

UK air passengers owed £214 million for flight delays

CONSUMERS are being let down by the big names in the airline industry despite an improved performance on delays last year, claims the passenger rights organization, EUclaim. 

They believes British passengers are owed £214 million in compensation for flight delays in 2014.

It says British Airways had 1,095 claimable delays during the year, meaning some 273,750 passengers were affected by delays of more than three hours. With an average compensation claim of £258.56, this means the airline could face a flight delay compensation bill in the region of £70 million, according to EUclaim's end-of-year analysis.

Other carriers could also face hefty payouts, with easyJet facing a potential bill of £35 million and Ryanair looking at possible claims for £25 million in compensation. They are followed by Thomas Cook Airlines (£24 million), Monarch (£23 million), Thomson Airways (£20 million) and Jet2 (£8.6 million).

Virgin Atlantic had the least claimable delays, but could still face a bill of more than £7.7 million.

EUclaim’s UK manager Adeline Noorderhaven said: ‘EU Regulation 261/2004 has had a positive effect on the airlines; they don’t want to pay compensation and this has led, in the main, to improved performances. Airlines can no longer hide behind extraordinary circumstances and therefore delays are now mainly down to airline scheduling and should be avoidable.’


Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK

Picture Credit: GoHoliday via Wikimedia Commons;

Sunday, 15 February 2015

‘Queuing eliminated’ Gatwick design unveiled

GATWICK AIRPORT has unveiled a design that it claims would ‘eliminate queuing’ as it looks to win the capacity growth war against Heathrow.
The design by Sir Terry Farrell has been created to make transit quicker and ensure faster aircraft turn-around times, based on introducing self-service bag drops and electronic security gates.

Go Holiday editor David Kernek comments: An airport without queues? Self-service bag drops that work?  Electronic security gates that will let law abiding passengers through and keep terrorists out? In the immortal words of St Victor Meldrew: I don’t believe it!

Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK

Thursday, 29 January 2015

VisitEngland chairwoman criticizes bank holiday rail closures

CLOSING down parts of Britain’s road and railway networks over bank holidays and during major sporting events is costing the economy in lost tourism, says VisitEngland’s chairwoman Lady Penelope Cobham.

‘We are trying to run a first world tourism service for local and overseas visitors, and there are certainly a number of overseas visitors around over Christmas. But we are more than hampered by a third-world service over Christmas,’ she told the Daily Telegraph.

‘I understand completely the need to do major works, but when they say they are going to end working on a particular day, we have to be able to depend on that.’

Lady Cobham said rail operators had in recent months been willing to hear her concerns, ‘but we have a long way to go to really explain, embed into their thinking and forward planning, how this might be done better.’

Network Rail has come under fire for over-running improvement work on the East Coast main line, which left thousands of passengers stranded in London during the Christmas holiday.

The Highways Agency has said that 219 stretches of road had roadworks in place during the festive period, though it suspended or accelerated more than 150 projects to help keep traffic moving over Christmas.


Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK

Tuesday, 27 January 2015

What that Greek vote could mean for tourism

THE response of the international money markets to the outcome of the Greek election was immediate: the euro – already in a long slide – dived to a seven-year low of €1.34 against the £, or €1 worth 74p/$1.12. It means lower prices on the ground for UK and US holidaymakers not only in Greece but also in every other Eurozone country.

But Noel Josephides, chairman of the Association of British Travel Agents and managing director of Greek specialists Sunvil Holidays points out that not all holidays in Greece might come at bargain rates.

“Tour operators are tied in when it comes to both currency and fuel, so booking late and independently could be cheaper,” he says. “But it’s difficult to tell and probably depends more on supply and demand. If the demand is high, hotel prices are unlikely to fall – and certainly not in honey-pot destinations such as Mykonos or Santorini.”

Will Greece leave the Eurozone (given that joining it in the first place was a catastrophic mistake)?

Says Nick Trend, travel consumer editor at The Daily Telegraph: ‘It would be a long, drawn-out process which would take months of political wrangling – therefore it’s highly unlikely before this summer.’

And if it did?

‘It should make holidays there cheaper, because a new drachma would be worth far less than the euro. Independent travellers would benefit most at first because they will be paying for accommodation in drachmas, as opposed to the prices in sterling offered by tour operators.

‘Some things – imports such as coffee, petrol and technology – would not be any cheaper. And the bad news is that the Greek hospitality industry does not have a strong track record when it comes to competitive pricing. When the euro was first introduced, prices went up disproportionately. If it were to leave, there is no guarantee that rates charged by hotels and restaurants will fully reflect the change in the value of the currency.’

Mr Trend suggests that because the new government will have a honeymoon period, political tension and strikes – “the bane of travel in Greece” – are probably less likely than they have been in the past three years.


Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK

Picture Credit: "Flag-map of Greece" by en.wiki: Aivazovskycommons: Aivazovskybased on a map by User:Morwen - Own work.via Wikimedia Commons

Wednesday, 14 January 2015

If it looks too good to be true …

NO sooner than the season of goodwill is done and dusted, comes the season of ill will in the shape of a variety scams, delivered by e-mail and traditional post and carefully designed to catch the unwary and the gullible. 

The post-Christmas/New Year weeks bring forth torrents of marketing e-mails. Some of them offer genuine bargains, including big discounts on holidays and travel deals, but as we rush to clear junk out of our in-boxes, it’s all too easy for individuals and companies to be sucked into wallet-shrivelling traps.

Here are some that we’ve seen in the opening weeks of 2015:

1. A letter was sent by conventional post to a British company about something called the UK Corporate Portal 2015. From this month, the way in which Value Added Tax (VAT) is recorded for inter European Union (EU) state transactions has changed. A company’s VAT number must be included in all of its documentation. The letter – which looks as if it’s come from a government department – offers businesses a seemingly smart way to eliminate the mountain of paperwork that would otherwise be generated by the new EU regulation.

Too good to be true? Possibly. The letter is not in fact from a government department. Go right down to the bottom of the second page, and you’ll see that it’s from an internet publishing company in Hamburg, Germany. It’s where you’ll also see a paragraph stating that by accepting the deal and signing your authorization, you are agreeing to pay them an annual fee of £797 on a continuing basis. Curiously, whether or not this includes VAT is not specified, and they reserve the right to change the required payment at their discretion.

So, if you get a two-page letter which has a barcode where a letterhead should be, and has the sender’s name and address (TW Tele Verzeichnis Verlag GmbH, Borsteler Chaussee 85-99a, D-22453 Hamburg) in small print at the bottom of the first page, we suggest you pause ensure that you do not sign up to something that you might not need, and very probably will not provide any benefits for your company.

2. What could be better than a post-Xmas payment, out of the blue, of £17,195.98p? 



This was the promise in an e-mail received by a Go Holiday executive on January 6. It was addressed to Dear all, and signed by Osborn, Senior Accountant. There is no ’phone number, no postal address, and this alleged senior accountant doesn’t have a first name. That the name of the current Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) in Britain is George Osborne might or might not be a co-incidence. Clearly, the e-mail is a scam. Open the attachment to learn about the ££££s that – surprise, surprise! –have been paid into your bank account, and you say hello to a virus that renders your computer/phone/tablet unusable other than to receive another e-mail offering you very expensive virus-clearing software. It’s the 21st century version of a protection money racket.

3. A similar scam is the e-mail – normally with no telephone numbers, but lots of spelling and grammatical errors – that purports in Britain to come from the government’s tax office (Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs). It tells the very lucky recipient that he or she has been awarded millions of ££££s, either as some sort of ‘gift’ or as a refund of overpaid tax. All you have to do is open the attachment and give your bank account details to the sender … and what you do get is either a computer virus or a bank balance reduced to £0.

If it looks too good to be true, it almost always is.


Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK

Picture Credit: GO Holiday

Tuesday, 13 January 2015

TripAdvisor fined in Italy for publishing fake reviews

ITALY'S competition watchdog has fined travel website TripAdvisor €500,000 (£392,000) for publishing misleading information in its reviews, the Daily Telegraph reports. The fine follows an investigation by the regulator into whether the website takes appropriate measures to avoid publishing false opinions while presenting them as genuine.

The regulator said the company and its Italian arm should stop ‘publishing misleading information about the sources of its reviews’, adding that the practice started in 2011

TripAdvisor said it would appeal against the ruling. ‘Our systems and procedures are extremely efficient in protecting consumers from a small minority of people who try to con our system,’ it said. ‘We firmly believe that TripAdvisor is a force for good, both for consumers and the hospitality industry.

The authority gave TripAdvisor 90 days to respond, saying its move was aimed at ensuring consumers do not make decisions based on information that does not correspond to reality.

Italian hoteliers welcomed the decision, citing numerous examples of ‘defamatory’ reviews that have appeared on the site.

TripAdvisor was investigated by the Advertising Standards Authority in Britain in 2011 and 2012 following claims that many of its hotel reviews are fake. The website subsequently scrapped its ‘reviews you can trust’ slogan and stopped claiming that its reviews are from ‘real’ travellers.

Despite the elaborate systems it says are in place to detect fraudulent reviews, some have slipped through the net. Last year, a senior executive at one of the world’s biggest hotel groups admitted breaching rules by posting dozens of glowing reviews about the company’s properties – and negative ones of its rivals. The reviews were removed only the Daily Telegraph contacted TripAdvisor. 

The website's fraud detection systems also failed to prevent a non-existent business becoming one of the most highly-rated restaurants in the seaside town of Brixham in 2013.

Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK

Tuesday, 6 January 2015

EU wastes millions on under-used regional airports, says report

MILLIONS of pounds of European Union (EU) money has been wasted on under-used and over-sized regional airports, according to a report by the European Court of Auditors. £200 million has been spent on infrastructure deemed ‘unnecessarily large’.

The report called it ‘poor value for money’, as it revealed that many of the aviation hubs were built in sparsely populated areas where there were not enough passengers to keep them afloat, The Times reported.

An airport in Kastoria, northern Greece, cost more than £6 million to run but brought in less than £140,000 between 2005 and 2012. 

Another in Córdoba, southern Spain, was predicted to cater for 179,000 passengers but handled less than 7,000 last year. 

Fewer than 10% of the 306,000 passengers expected at Crotone, in southern Italy, materialized. 

The EU has given Poland almost £80 million since 2007 to build three “ghost” airports in sparsely populated areas that that do not merit hubs.

The audit showed that only half of the 20 airports, which were given £530 million, deserved EU funding.

Jonathan Isaby, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance in the UK, said: ‘Even by the unique standards of EU spending, this is a shocking waste of hard-pressed taxpayers’ money.’


Go Holiday editor David Kernek comments: The EU wastes money? What’s new?


Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK

Tuesday, 23 December 2014

When Canadians get bored..................



Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK

Picture Credit: Somewhere-on-the-web

Monday, 1 December 2014

Travel trade cautious on plan to devolve Scottish APD

THE travel industry has given a mixed reaction to the news that Scotland could gain control over some of its taxes, which would include Air Passenger Duty (APD).
Meanwhile, speculation is mounting that Chancellor George Osborne will cut the tax for children under 12 in his autumn financial statement on December 3. Campaigners claim abolishing the tax would help families who face a hike in the cost of flying during school holidays, while costing the Treasury just £50 million.
The Smith Commission – set up by the UK government to look at devolving powers to Scotland following the referendum earlier this year – has recommended that the Scottish Parliament should have full control of income tax rates and bands, and APD.
Both the Association of British Travel Agents and the Board of Airline Representatives (BAR UK) said the move could further put England, Wales, and Ulster at a competitive disadvantage if the Scottish government decides to scrap APD.
BAR UK chief executive Dale Keller said: ‘The Scottish government has already indicated it would slash or scrap the world’s highest air passenger tax to stimulate the local economy. The right time is now for the whole of the UK to share equally in the benefits a phasing out of APD would deliver.’
Mark Tanzer, CEO of ABTA said: ‘Any inconsistencies between what a passenger pays flying from Scotland compared to elsewhere in the UK could create an uncompetitive and damaging situation for travel businesses.’
Flybe welcomed the news and said scrapping APD would allow new routes to open up for Scotland.

Go Holiday editor David Kernek comments: ‘This is a kneejerk – though not unexpected – reaction from the travel trade. It appears to assume that holidaymakers living in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will book flights from Scottish airports in order to avoid APD. But in many cases, the time, hassle, and cost of getting to Glasgow, or Edinburgh, or Aberdeen would be equal to, or possibly outweigh, the saving.’

Go Holiday news : www.govillasandcottages.co.uk
All your holiday needs: IN PRINT - ON-LINE - DiGiMAG - SMARTPHONE -TABLET - BLOG - TWITTER - G+ - FACEBOOK