The longstanding chairman of Intercontinental Hotels Group is to step down late in the year. Reports said late last week that David Webster is to end his eight-year run as Chairman of the UK-based hotel firm just before Christmas, which will bring to a close one of the lengthiest periods under a single chair for [...]

The Rail, Maritime and Transport union has turned down an offer of a bonus of £500 to be paid to workers on the London Underground who do their jobs during the Olympic Games this summer. The union said that the offer was too little. George McInulty, the Tube’s director said that discussions on the matter [...]

Travellers utilising San Francisco International Airport (SFO) can now make use of the onsite yoga room. The space, which opened up late last week in the recently remodelled Terminal 2, comes as part of the airport’s efforts to make the experience of air travel more enjoyable and less stressful, according to John L. Martin, the [...]

Aberdeen Airport has announced that it will be investing £45 million over the next decade in improving and expanding its terminal. Through 2012, £4.5 million will be spent providing increased capacity and improved passenger services to the main building. Other projects over the next 10 years include expanding the international arrivals area, which will cost [...]

A government-commissioned panel has called on ministers to impose looser travel rules to boost tourism numbers. A report by the group released this week said that easing restrictions and speeding up application processes for Visas, as well as lightening regulations for teenage works would allow more tourists to easily visit the United Kingdom each year. The independent panel [...]

The Government has teamed up with 13 companies to try to make hydrogen-powered cars commercially successful in the coming years. Mark Prisk, the business minister, said in an official announcement on Wednesday that hydrogen vehicles are being seen more and more as one of the primary options for a lower carbon motoring in the near [...]

A group of foreign tourists visiting Ethiopia have been attacked by gunmen from Eritrea, according to reports on Ethiopian Television. The attack took place on Monday in the Afar region which is in the north of the country, and five people have been killed. Although the nationality of the victims is still to be confirmed, [...]

West London’s Hammersmith Flyover has been reopened to light traffic. The elevated route had been shut for three weeks after crew had discovered severe damage to cables within the structure. But beginning at 04:30 GMT on Friday one lane in each direction was opened to lighter vehicles, although coaches and HGVs are still prohibited from [...]

Peter Hendy, Transport Commissioner for London, has admitted that although it was no yet apparent how bad the damage to the Hammersmith flyover is, it is possible that it is more severe than originally thought. Damaged cables beneath the carriageway are hard to examine as they have been encased in concrete, and this is why [...]

An industry body has said that China’s airlines are refusing to pay the EU’s carbon emissions taxes. The comments come via the China Air Transport Association (CATA); officials from the organisation told Reuters on Tuesday that China would simply “not cooperate” with the European emissions trading scheme. The CATA represents the four largest state-backed Chinese [...]