Hotel chain Best Western has announced plans to open in Haiti to serve business travellers visiting the country. The hotel is due to open in Port-au-Prince this summer and will operate under the Premier banner which was launched in 2011 as a way of attracting higher-end customers. The property will be seven stories tall and [...]

Route planning tool Google Maps has added UK train timetables and routes to help travellers to move around the country more easily. In collaboration with thetrainline.com, Google Maps is now supplying information on 2,500 stations and 170,000 routes. It is also showing more than 250 London Underground stations and around 8,000 bus stops across the [...]

The amount of money being spent on sustainable transport solutions has been criticised. There are concerns that the Scottish Transport Committee, under John Swinney, is failing to live up to promises to pump more of its budget into walking and cycling, rather than continuing to build roads which will which will do little to help [...]

An increase of fines for fare dodgers on London’s transport network has been delayed because notices informing passengers of the hikes failed to go up on time. The increase to £80 from £50 was supposed to kick in on 2 January, at the same time as fares went up by an average of 5.6 per [...]

Around 250,000 people are expected to travel into the centre of London to welcome in the new year. This year, the traditional firework display over the Thames will be accompanied by music which has been specially selected to synchronise with the explosions. The display will also be to mark the start of a year which [...]

A man who has pleaded guilty to pushing an immigration and human rights lawyer to her death under a tube train has been sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey. The incident took place in October last year at Kings Cross station in central London. Senthooran Kanagasingham, from Cricklewood, has been told that he [...]

London’s bus workers are asking for a £500 incentive for working during the 2012 Olympic Games. Unite, the union which represents the interests of 28,000 employees in the capital, said that if operators fail to agree, then industrial action would be likely. The demand comes a day after drivers of the London Underground confirmed that [...]

Edinburgh councillors have agreed in principle to introducing a new tourist tax on the price of a hotel room. If it goes ahead, it will be the first ever revenue making scheme of its kind in the UK. The plan is to place a charge on rooms of £1 or £2 per night, and could [...]

Recently published data suggests that many councils across the UK are looking into cutting back on optional transportation for school children. Campaign for Better Transport received the information after applying under the Freedom of Information Act. Of the 81 local education authorities, and the six major metropolitan areas covered by the figures, around three-quarters are [...]

The announcement that Prince William is being deployed to the Falkland Islands in the new year is likely to see a rise in the number of tourists visiting the archipelago. The Duke of Cambridge is expected to arrive in February when he begins a six week tour of duty as an RAF Search and Rescue [...]