Latest headlines in Travel News
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News: Stace to lead travel business at Saga (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-23 15:09:17)
Saga has appointed Nick Stace as chief executive of its travel business. He currently holds the role of chief strategy officer with the company, and will take up his new role with immediate effect.
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News: Palm Fountain recognised as biggest in the world (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-23 15:05:28)
Nakheel Malls has official broken the record for the largest fountain in the world. Guinness World Records recognised the Palm Fountain in Dubai as covering 7,327 metres squared during an opening ceremony earlier.
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News: Thomas Cook sees spike in Canary Island demand (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-23 14:58:06)
Searches continue to accelerate this morning with customers flocking to grab last-minute deals to the main islands of Tenerife, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura.
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News: Occupancy levels show modest recovery at IHG (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-23 14:44:55)
InterContinental Hotels Group saw RevPAR fall by 53 per cent in the three months to the end of September as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to take a huge toll on the hospitality sector.
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News: CAA extends ATOL credit note scheme until end of the year (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-23 09:10:05)
In July, the ATOL scheme announced, following confirmation from the department for transport, that refund credit notes issued for cancelled bookings as a result of Covid-19 would be protected.
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News: Accor sees revenue slump in third quarter as travel stalls (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-23 08:26:16)
Accor has seen group revenue fall to €329 million in the third quarter of 2020, down by 69 per cent on a reported and 64 per cent on a like-for-like basis.
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News: Low-cost carries cut capacity as second Covid-19 wave bites (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-23 08:15:01)
Low-cost carriers in Europe are reacting to a second wave of Covid-19 across the continent and the associated travel restrictions and quarantine requirements.
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News: American Airlines reports huge loss for third quarter (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-23 08:10:24)
American Airlines has reported third-quarter revenue of $3.2 billion, down 73 per cent year-over-year on a 59 per cent year-over-year reduction in total available seat miles.
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News: Virgin Atlantic to return to two more Caribbean destinations (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-23 07:57:39)
Virgin Atlantic will relaunch flights to Antigua and Grenada on Monday. The services will join the four weekly flights to Barbados and twice weekly flights to Montego Bay, Jamaica.
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News: Canary Islands added to UK quarantine-free list (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-23 07:52:25)
In perhaps the best piece of news for the UK hospitality industry in several weeks, the Canary Islands have been added to the quarantine safe list.
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News: Qatar Airways welcomes three Airbus A350-1000 planes to fleet (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-23 07:03:53)
Qatar Airways has taken delivery today of three more Airbus A350-1000 aircraft. The development reaffirms its position as the largest operator of Airbus A350 aircraft in the world, with 52 in its fleet.
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News: Scottish hospitality industry launches legal action against government (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-22 14:30:41)
The Scottish Beer & Pub Association, Scottish Licensed Trade Association, UKHospitality (Scotland), Scottish Hospitality Group and Night Time Industries Association Scotland have joined forces.
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Focus: The top UK staycation destinations for 2020 (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-22 11:39:54)
2020 is the year of the staycation with travel restrictions limiting people’s options and many not wanting to travel internationally while the threat of the virus re-mains. This will give the economy a much needed boost to the tourism and econ-omy, which is reported to lose £22 billion as a result of restrictions.
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News: Luxury Collection selects Tan as global ambassador (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-22 11:34:54)
Picked for her sense of adventure, Tan Yuanyuan has spent years traveling the world as a multi-award-winning principal dancer with the prestigious San Francisco Ballet Company.
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News: Air Canada offers all-business-class Jetz fleet to charter (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-22 11:27:14)
Air Canada is making its fleet of all-business-class Jetz charter aircraft available to customers for commercial flights as it redeploys the fleet on popular winter routes.
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News: British Airways Boeing 747 begins new life at Dunsfold (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-22 11:02:39)
A British Airways 747 will today depart for Dunsfold Aerodrome where it will begin its new life as a TV and film set. The aircraft which will keep its Chatham Dockyard livery will be stored in public view.
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News: Princess hands over two ships to P&O Cruises Australia (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-22 10:53:03)
Princess Cruises has completed the official transfer of Golden Princess and Star Princess to P&O Cruises Australia. Both ships played an instrumental role in the evolution of Princess.
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News: PATA reorganises governance structure (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-22 10:46:53)
The Pacific Asia Travel Association made significant changes to the design of its organisational governance at the recent board meeting.
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News: New evidence bolsters case for Covid-19 testing on arrival (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-22 10:46:42)
New analysis has found “significant methodological concerns” in work by Public Health England, which means the detection rates for passenger testing on arrival are being “significantly understated”.
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News: South Africa to offer long-term residents post-Covid-19 access (Breaking Travel News 2020-10-22 07:39:57)
Authorities say they have recognised there are a number of regular visitors, mainly from European countries, who usually visit the country for long periods of time during the summer season.