Britain pulled off a glorious Games but can London produce another gold-medal performance and beat the Olympic tourism curse? Australians will well remember the slump that followed the Sydney Olympics, while Continue reading
Aussies will be flocking to London for the key weekend of celebrations for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in June. Leading online travel agent travel.com.au says its bookings for London are Continue reading
The Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall put it so well when he wrote the lyrics “the rooms in these hotels are the same around the world”. Hotels, particularly big hotels, tend Continue reading
The London Olympic Games are playing havoc with travel patterns, sending bookings soaring and crashing around the event. Travel to Britain is expected to be disrupted well beyond the six-week period Continue reading
There are few major cities without a big-brand airport hotel these days. At airports around the world you can get off a plane and head straight to a hotel of Continue reading
Home owners in Britain and other parts of Europe are renting out their gardens as campsites for travellers on a budget. Campinmygarden.com lists properties ranging from urban areas to country manors, Continue reading
Passengers will soon be able to travel between London and Germany by train, following a successful trial of a Deutsche Bahn (DB) service through the Channel Tunnel. The “Chunnel”, which Continue reading
London hotel rates could jump by as much as 50 per cent for the 2012 Olympic Games, according to Hotels.com. More than 12,000 extra rooms will become available in the Continue reading
The movies might have come to an end but that bespectacled adolescent wizard is barely getting started in a tourism sense. A new Harry Potter attraction, The Making of Harry Continue reading
First it was electric cars, now Hertz is offering a new form of planet-friendly transport. The company has introduced electric bicycles to its London rental fleet, giving visitors a zero-emission Continue reading
