Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford announced new anti-COVID-19 measures that would ban alcohol sales in Wales’ pubs and bars, and require the establishments to close by 6pm.
A cross-Irish Sea set of collaborative counties in Ireland and Wales has formed a partnership to deliver a new tourism heritage project known as the ‘Celtic Routes’, aimed at bringing…
Cruise and Maritime Voyages (CMV) has announced it is offering continued online training following their success in attracting more than 1000 agents and trade partners to their course.…
Starting 15 May, the public can book to stay at Prince Charles’ bed and breakfast located on the North Sea on the grounds of Castle of Mey in Caithness, Scotland.
North Wales, a land of rugged looks and bleak natural beauty -- home to Mount Snowdon, the eight towers of Medieval Conwy Castle and Snowdonia national park -- is all set to counter the…
UK tourism boomed in 2016 - what are the key factors driving this growth?
I think it’s our wonderful tourism product, and our collaboration with the great campaign our national tourist…
Travelodge has announced a pipeline of 15 hotels to open in the UK this year.
Four new London hotels are due to open while others will also open in Southampton, Llandudno, Glasgow,…
Twenty hotels from countries including Wales and Ireland have recently joined Historic Hotels of Europe.
The group now has 500 members from across the continent, which also include…
British seaside towns are to benefit from £36 million investment from the government’s Coastal Communities Fund.
The money will be used to fund projects in 36 towns with £2m to go…
YHA is investing £4 million (US$6.3m) in a high-end hostel in Cardiff.
The group purchased the three-storey former Mercure Lodge Hotel on East Tyndall Street earlier this year, and…
Wyndham Hotel Group has signed an agreement to add another 20 Ramada hotels in the UK.
The properties will open in the next 10 years with the first two opening next month: Ramada…
Travellers from the West of England and Wales will be able to combine rail and air travel in one ticket through a partnership between British Airways, Heathrow Express and First Great…
Wales has reported a £2.4 million economic benefit from cruise calls in 2013, with the number expected to rise this year due to more ships calling at its ports.
Cruise calls have been…
Delayed flight cases worth billions of pounds in compensations have been opened up after the Supreme Court turned down appeals from Jet2 and Thomson.
The Court of Appeal judgements in…
Hoseasons has announced a new luxury caravan brand named Bouja.
The new product will launch at the start of next year in six locations across Devon, Wales and Hampshire.
Each will…
Cardiff Airport’s chief executive Jon Horne will leave the role in September after helping the airport to turnaround in recent months.
Horne joined the airport in April 2013 after the…
Two thirds of MPs are expected to go on holidays overseas this year compared to 52% of the general public.
A new ComRes survey from ABTA found those in the Conservative party are more…
British Airways has added its flight code to more than 170 Vueling flights.
The agreement is largely on flights to and from Rome Fiumicino with 37 international and 11 domestic…
Trenython Manor in Cornwall scooped the top accolade at the Considerate Hoteliers awards last week.
The Cornish hotel won the ‘Hotel of the Year 2014’ award while the international…
The UK’s aviation sector is estimated to generate more than GBP50 billion to the UK economy each year with many also playing a key role in local communities, a new report has said.…
Carlson Rezidor Group plans to roll out online check-in and check-out at Radisson Blu hotels later this year, Travel Daily has learned.
Eric de Neef, executive vice president and…
Ryanair has announced new flights from Cardiff Airport to Tenerife for the winter season.
Flights from the Wales airport, Ryanair’s 15th in the UK, will start 30 October and operate…
Three hotels in the UK have been named among the top 10 in Europe with TripAdvisor users.
Red Carnation’s Egerton House Hotel in London was 6th in the list of the top European hotels…
Wales is aiming to draw on its natural assets to drive more repeat visitors to the country.
Speaking to Travel Daily on Tuesday (13 May 2014), Mike Price of VisitWales said that while…
London welcomed more than 16 million international visitors for the first time within a year in 2013, new statistics have found.
The latest Office of National Statistics (ONS)…
Thomson and First Choice have announced 29 new routes from regional airports in the UK for its summer 2015 programme.
Its new flights include services from the likes of Birmingham,…
Accor has announced new openings for its MGallery and Mercure brands in the UK.
New MGallery hotels are in the pipeline for Windsor, Cheltenham (pictured) and Aberdeen with openings…
Global Travel Group has received more membership enquiries from experienced travel agents as its brand awareness grows.
The consortia has traditionally been known to include new,…
A record number of cruise ship passengers visited or started their cruise at UK ports in 2013, new figures have revealed.
CruiseBritain has said more than 100 ships called into UK…
Wallace & Gromit will once again appear in a series of adverts to promote holidays in the UK.
The pair will be in the third pan-UK ‘Holidays at Home are GREAT’ campaign that will…
MPs will debate the introduction of school holiday fees and increased holiday prices at Westminster this afternoon following on-going comments from travel companies and parents.
In…
The sound of Rudimental’s chart hit ‘Feel the Love’; pouring tea and the chimes of Big Ben are all being used in a new VisitBritain campaign launched today.
‘Sounds of GREAT Britain’…
The British Hospitality Association (BHA) has urged the government to act early to support hospitality and tourism businesses to quickly generate a recovery from the effect of flooding…
VisitBritain has said its GREAT campaign is starting to see results after Office of National Statistics (ONS) data found inbound tourism at a record high.
There were 6% more overseas…
Travelodge will invest another GBP100 million in new and modernising hotels this year, it has announced.
The budget chain will open 15 new hotels including five in London and others…
Passengers on ships, aircraft and trains will soon be able to use superfast broadband speeds in the UK, following a decision by Ofcom today.
The approval means transport operators…
The British nation took more overseas trips in the third quarter of 2013 compared to the same period the previous year.
New Office of National Statistics (ONS) data from the…
British Airways has redesigned its travel agent website to provide more information about the airline.
More content, fact sheets and up-to-date information has been uploaded to…
CityJet has dropped six routes as it revealed its full summer schedule for 2014.
The airline has withdrawn loss-making routes from London City to Dundee, Munster, Luxembourg,…
Demand growth for hotels in Europe has surpassed the rise in North America for two months in a row.
According to new data from STR Global, Europe has seen 3.2% growth in a 12-month…
CityJet has taken over flights from Cardiff to Paris and Glasgow after Flybe dropped the routes.
CityJet, which is part of the Air France group, will start operating the routes on 20…
Ex-Wedgewood Holidays and Thomson employee Caroline Beeching has set up her own inbound destination management company (DMC) to take advantage of the inbound tourism growth to the UK.…
Cardiff Airport will be updating its terminal building during the winter in time for a new look next summer.
A new loan from the Welsh government will see an expanded security area…
Tickets for the Travel Foundation’s new Travel Lottery will go on sale on 27 December, it has been announced.
Sales for the first monthly draw have been launched in time with the peak…
Adventure travel company Explore has joined the BRIGHT consortia.
The company joins 13 others in the group, which includes tour operators, cruise lines, tourist boards and suppliers…
Tourism is set to grow at a faster rate than the retail, construction and manufacturing sectors, according to a new Deloitte and VisitBritain study.
The tourism sector is expected to…
Flybe has announced its winter schedule for 2013/14 with nine new routes.
Four new ski routes from Cardiff have been announced, connecting to Chambery, Geneva, Grenoble and Lyons.…
Stuart Leven has been named managing director UK for Royal Caribbean International. Leven’s role will add Latin America, Asia Pacific and the Caribbean to this regions as well as Europe,…
Travelodge is turning to councils across the country to help it build new hotels.
The budget hotel brand has written to 124 councils in the UK in an attempt to get funding for future…
Tourism in Wales is to be promoted in the USA due to a VisitBritain strategy with accommodation provider Welsh Rarebits.
The two will be working together as part of the ‘GREAT’…
UK-based Chardon Management has been acquired by Interstate Hotels & Resorts.
Chardon’s hotels will now switch management to Interstate, boosting the latter’s UK portfolio to 47…
A new nationwide campaign has launched in Britain to encourage people to try or get back into snowsports again.
The GO SKI GO BOARD promotion aims to entice back ski holidaymakers who…
Travel search website Skyscanner will expand its offering after acquiring hotel search company Fogg.
The move will allow the site, which is known predominantly for flight searches, to…
Barclays has partnered with the British Hospitality Association (BHA) to help tackle youth unemployment and create 60,000 jobs.
The two will work together to help young people prepare…
Cardiff Airport has posted an increase in passengers for three consecutive months as its new government owners look to turnaround its fortune.
In recent Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)…
Gap year holiday providers will be looking to appeal to college-leavers today as A Level results are released.
Tour operators look to encourage those who don’t get the grades they…
Companies are to be banned from using premium rate phone numbers for enquiries or complaints from next summer.
A new law will come into force on 13 June 2014 which will ban companies…
Cardiff and Stansted airports were put to the test yesterday when British Airway’s Airbus A380 touched down ahead of its official launch this autumn.
BA said it hopes Cardiff will be…
Sunny weather in the UK and Europe has seen camping website Pitchup.com increase its business four-fold since last summer.
The website, which is marking its fourth anniversary this…
Tourism and hotel occupancy across the UK has bounced back this year after seeing a dip during the Olympic and Paralympic Games last year.
Hotels in the UK have seen a 4.6% increase…
Hotels in the UK have seen a 4.6% increase in occupancy for the month of June, according to new statistics.
The latest figures from analysts STR Global has seen occupancy at 81.4%…
While the UK Government slowly mulls over how it can open up the UK to Chinese visitors, travel in the other direction is on the up. After assessing the Chinese inbound market earlier…
China’s tourism industry is booming. New statistics released this week indicate that the Government is falling short of the number of Chinese tourists it wants. But with an expensive and…
The UK is to fall short of targets to bring half a million Chinese tourists to the country each year by 2015, a new report has said.
A study by The Tourism Alliance has predicted the…
The UK Government has said it has no plans to review the economic impact of Air Passenger Duty (APD) despite numerous calls from the travel industry and businesses around the world.…
Forty MPs have backed calls for a study into the impact of Air Passenger Duty (APD) on the UK economy.
Ministers from all three parties signed the EDM 244 which outlines how the tax…
A new tourism strategy to boost visitors to Wales by 10% has been launched by the Welsh Government.
Its five-pronged focus was devised from talks with residents and businesses in the…
Thomas Cook is to unveil a new advertising campaign this weekend starring television star James Nesbitt.
The new year-round campaign aims to “brand-build” the travel company by…
Vueling has announced it will operate services year-round from Cardiff Airport with the addition of winter flights.
The Spanish carrier will operate flights to Malaga and Alicante…
Cardiff Airport has been sold to the Welsh government for GBP52 million from its previous Spanish owners TBI.
Ministers will now be looking to boost passenger numbers from the Welsh…
The long-awaited Thirsty Thursday Cardiff is back!
Travel agents, make sure you join us at Peppermint Bar, St Mary’s Street on Thursday 25th April 2013 to find out some big news from…
Aer Lingus Regional is to increase its frequencies between Cardiff and Dublin this summer following high demand on the route.
The carrier, operated by Aer Arann, will increase to 17…
Lufthansa will expand its European network this summer, including the launch of flights from Cardiff and Glasgow to Dusseldorf.
The new routes, which launch from 31 March, were part of…
Cardiff, Luton and Belfast International airports have been put up for sale by their Spanish owners, reports have said.
According to the Sunday Times, the three regional airports…
Macdonald Hotels & Resorts has re-entered the Welsh hotel market with the recently refurbished Dragon Hotel, Swansea.
In the agreement, Macdonald will handle distribution opportunities,…
Holidaymakers in Wales are to gain more connections into Germany next year after Lufthansa announced new flights from Cardiff.
The German airline will launch summer weekend services from…
Rail networks across the UK are to receive a £9.4 billion investment upgrade in new plans revealed by the government.
The announcement by David Cameron today covering 2014-2019 will see a…
Jumeirah Restaurants LLC, the branded restaurant division within the Jumeirah Group, continued its global expansion with the signing of two license agreements, one with affiliates of the EQ…
Discover Travel & Tours has acquired Wales holiday specialist Pili Pala Travel to help boost inbound tourism to the destination. The tour operator has now expanded its tour offering in…
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