Articles tagged “uk”

Sometimes a bump is all a country needs to get thing clicking again. PM Cameron will try to use this success to move on from a summer filled with political failures.

October is a popular month for British travellers to steal away to the Mediterranean for the last glimpses of sun, but impromptu getaways can be thwarted if travel documents aren’t already in line.

The government backpedaled from the aviation minister’s enthusiastic support for the aviation association’s future findings by clarifying it was supportive of the process, not necessarily the verdict.

Days after Lebanon was ready to sue an American TV series for an unfair portrayal of its capital city, a car bomb exploded and demonstrations over took the city leading to a drop in tourism that the country badly wanted to avoid.

And, just think of how those football-tourism numbers would skyrocket if fan violence and racism weren't an ugly backdrop.

The reps’ misinterpretation of the intended meaning of ‘curious’ has turned the tourism campaign into a full-on debate in England today. Check out #proudtobecurious to see residents' surge of support.

These numbers, disappointing as they are, will strengthen calls for better tourism policy by UK govt, along with calls for relaxing the visa requirements for many countries including China.

Chinese tourists are not the biggest spenders (that’d be Qataris and Kuwaitis), but their numbers are growing along and Britain doesn’t want to be forgotten among brand capitals like Paris and Rome.

Even in slow times, if a venue can guarantee minimum number of rooms by being a tourist/event attraction, then hotel development will happen. That's the trend in UK it seems.

Aurora Borealis has made traveling to frozen destinations like Iceland worth the icy trek, a tourism niche they will continue to hold despite the occasional vista from England.