Manchester Airport has said that it will continue to use body scanners on passengers, even though the European Commission has said that it will begin trials to assess the health risks posed by the machines. Manchester has had the scanners on trial since 2009. The UK’s Health Protection Agency has already conducted its own tests, [...]

As SeaFrance has its future decided by the Tribunal of Commerce, services between Calais and Dover have been suspended. The 48 hour stoppage comes after the European Commission announced that a bailout of 200 million euros from the French Government as part of a rescue plan for the company would be illegal. SeaFrance has apologised [...]

Political and social unrest across the Middle East and North Africa has hit tourism in the regions’ hard this year. As uprisings took place in Tunisia and Egypt, many popular tourist destinations were left bereft of foreign visitors as tour companies pulled their customers out. Holidaymakers from Europe have also decided against travelling to civil [...]

Network Rail is facing fines which could add up to millions of pounds after a regulator said the operator’s performance continued to deteriorate. The Office of Rail Regulations said that if the company was shown to be in breach of license conditions, then a fine could be imposed. Network Rail was slapped with a £14 [...]

Recent research suggests that the rules at airports which forbid liquids to be carried onto aircraft are regularly being flouted by passengers. The survey shows that around a quarter of customers have, at one point, taken liquids through security either deliberately or without meaning to. The study was conducted by Skyscanner, a popular flight comparison [...]

A new advertisement from rail firm First Great Western (FGW) has been criticised by industry and consumer groups. The fire comes in regards to FGW’s new “Explore” advertising campaign in which it invites consumers to visit Dartmouth via its rail services. However, groups have complained because Dartmouth’s nearest rail station –Paignton- is six miles away [...]

Kenya’s tourism industry is in a precarious state following the recent kidnapping of two European women and the murder of a British man in the north of the country close to the Lamu archipelago. Judith and David Tebbutt were holidaying at Kiwayu Safari Village, approximately 35 miles to the north of Lamu, when he was [...]

England saw a 10 per cent rise in holiday spending for the first half of 2011, new data shows. Experts attribute the increase largely to the rising popularity of ‘staycationers’ –up 3 per cent according to VisitEngland- as well the royal wedding alongside prolonged periods of pleasant weather in the spring and through much of [...]

Dutch airline KLM and Formula One tycoon Michiel Mol have joined forces on a project which could see passengers make the journey between London and Sydney in just one hour and 45 minutes. However, the new spaceship is not due to run a regular scheduled service for another two decades. A preliminary edition of the [...]

Traffic in Bolivia’s largest city has been brought to a standstill due to major protests on the country’s highways. Streets in the La Paz city centre were blocked by tens of thousands of protestors on Wednesday as a response to the government’s plans to build a highway that would traverse a protected portion of pristine [...]