News Archive: travel and tourism: 2009

23, 2009 December:

Holiday on Holy Island

St Oswald's, the cottage designed by Lutyens on Holy Island, off the coast of Northumberland, is now available for holiday lets, through the National Trust...

Tiny Scottish town scoops top spot

A tiny Scottish town has secured second place in a list of the world's most up-and-coming travel hotspots for 2010...

US imposes 3-hr tarmac limit

The Transportation Department, responding to tarmac horror stories, ordered airlines yesterday to let passengers stuck in stranded airplanes to deplane after three hours...

Snow joke on UK roads

Heavy snow has brought swaths of Britain to a standstill as forecasters gave warning of further travel misery with up to four more inches to come...

Small mercies

With the recent Christmas travel chaos it would be wise for travellers to plan ahead for all eventualities when it comes to packing...

22, 2009 December:

Luxury is back

What credit crunch - luxury still has its place in the economic downturn - the super-rich are not prepared to trade in their gold-plated travels just because of a pesky economic downturn - as proved by the winner of the World's Best Hotel 2009 award - a luxury retreat in South Africa...

Rio: crackdown prior to events

Rio de Janeiro may have been declared the sports city of the moment after winning the 2016 Olympics and the 2014 World Cup, but officials admit there is a long way to go before it is ready to host the world's top sports stars...

The future of air travel: zero contact

Airlines are trying to shrug off a financially-plagued decade by promising passengers more low fares as well as a seamless, paperless and even "contact-less" travel experience, industry executives said...

Qantas boosts Brisbane services

Qantas has announced it will increase services on its domestic routes as a result of improved demand...

21, 2009 December:

Top of the NYE props

New Year's Eve brings people together and is a time to celebrate with friends and family. To make sure that 2009 ends with a bang many travellers are heading to major cities around the world to join in the celebrations...

18, 2009 December:

Homes saved for the nation

The future of the late legendary climber Sir Edmund Hillary's home in Remuera, New Zealand, was hanging in the balance earlier this year, with heritage societies racing to save it from being sold at auction - so what did happen? TheMoveChannel.com finds out...

Christmas is back on!

The Christmas holiday plans of one million British Airways passengers have been saved thanks to the High Court in London blocking a planned 12-day strike by the airline's cabin crew...

World's first ‘cougar cruise' sets sail

Cruise ships are increasingly catering to holidaymakers' particular interests - whether it's art and culture or a particular hobby...

Aviation tax would 'devastate' tourism

Imposing climate change taxes on international air travel, as proposed at the Copenhagen climate summit, would be devastating for Australia's $89 billion tourism industry, the nation's top tourism lobby group has warned...

Brits opt for long-haul in 2010

Travellers are throwing caution to the wind and making 2010 the year of the long-haul holiday according to new figures...

Stranded travellers slam Flyglobespan

Holidaymakers among the thousands of people left stranded overseas by the collapse of Flyglobespan have criticised the Scottish airline for failing to keep them informed...

17, 2009 December:

Domino effect: Qantas strikes

Nearly 200 Qantas airline engineers have gone on strike this morning in the latest act of industrial defiance by employees in critical service sectors...

Warwick tourists defy Lonely Planet advice

Italian traveller Michele Vadori has used his Lonely Planet guide to navigate the world but he put it aside to detour to Warwick yesterday...

16, 2009 December:

Bird's Nest on slippery ground

China's iconic national stadium, which has rarely been used since last year's Olympic Games, has been transformed into a snowy winter wonderland, angering environmentalists along the way - TheMoveChannel.com checks out the controversial venue for the ‘Happy Snow and Ice Season' carnival...

2009 vs 2010 for second home owners

2009 has been a year of highs and lows for British owners of holiday homes - many of those already on the second home ladder have seen the intrinsic value lying in their homes and increasing numbers have started letting out their second homes -so let's check out the switch of mindset in the UK...

Stop that strike!

British Airways has turned to the courts to stop a 12-day strike by cabin crew which threatens to disrupt the Christmas holiday plans of one million travellers...

Carry-on rules relaxed

Carry-on baggage rules in Australia will be relaxed under a shake-up of aviation security announced by the Federal Government today...

Australians snub Australia

We may have a reputation as a laid-back, beach-loving people, keen to kick back and relax but new figures show Australians are snubbing Aussie holidays...

Two years late: Dreamliner flying high

Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner jet has taken to the skies for the first time, in a critical milestone for the problem-plagued aircraft seen as key to the future of the US aerospace giant...

Black, white or merry?

The Chief Public Prosecutor of Verona [Veneto] has caused controversy by choosing a black Holy Family for the crib which is displayed in the city's Courthouse this Christmas...

Airport ditched for jobs growth

Sydney will have to wait another 18 months before learning the site of its much-needed second airport...

15, 2009 December:

Excess is back: luxury travel booms

The luxury travel market is bouncing back after a couple of difficult seasons, but today's well-heeled travellers are spurning the excess of the boom years in favour of authentic experiences...

BA: 12 strikes of Christmas

Up to one million British Airways passengers could be stranded this Christmas after the struggling airline's cabin crew voted to walk off the job for 12 days...

Use it or lose it, says Qantas

Qantas frequent flyer points will expire in half the time after the airline tightened up its lucrative rewards scheme...

Lonely Planet angers Qld town

Neatly packed in a seasoned traveller's suitcase or thrown into a jumbled mess of socks and underpants, Lonely Planet travel books have accompanied many to earth's end - but not to Warwick, it seems...

14, 2009 December:

Party like it's 2009

Since we have looked at where Brits like to spend time over Christmas in the story below, let's check out the top destinations for the number one party night of the year - so just where do Brits party like its 2009?...TheMoveChannel.com finds out the New Years Eve hotspots...

All I want for Christmas is...

Whilst a festive day spent sunbathing on a far-flung beach may sound tempting, I'd be willing to bet my last rolo that most Brits would choose to spend Christmas at home in freezing Blighty with their loved ones and a giant box of Quality Street - so let's see if this is the case...

Freedom on Fraser: ‘death trap'

Queensland's peak motoring body has called for a further lowering of the speed limit on Australia's Fraser Island beaches in the wake of yet another four-wheel drive fatality, while experts say a special licence for the vehicles won't work...

Don't drink and ski

Britain warned its skiers and snowboarders to avoid excess alcohol when taking to France's ski slopes, after a spate of drink-related deaths and serious accidents...

The dirty truth

A top minister has slammed Malaysia's taxi drivers, saying they were more of a problem for the tourism industry than the nation's notoriously filthy toilets...

Fancy a luxury yacht?

One of two Australian-built luxury yachts based in French Polynesia has been offered for sale at £22.5 million, Tahiti Tourisme's weekly news bulletin reported...

11, 2009 December:

Jetstar ramps up discount war

Qantas' budget airline Jetstar has thrown down the gauntlet to other no-frills airlines by adding an extra 700,000 seats with discounted fares to Australia's popular playgrounds from next year...

Has world's best job worked?

It sounds more like a dream - being paid $150,000 to laze about tropical islands, dive the Great Barrier Reef, meet the Aussie wildlife, explore outback towns, and even appear on Oprah...

Carry on cruising

Fears that the arrival of three cruise ships would paralyse Sydney today in the same way as last year's arrival of Queen Mary 2 and the QE2 proved unfounded...

10, 2009 December:

Cheap flights ‘must end'

The era of cheap flights must end if Britain is to meet its carbon reduction target, the Government has been told...

Cost of ski holidays slide

Skiers should be able to pick up a cut-price winter holiday after European resorts, especially in France, started to drop their prices...

UK travel market hardest hit

The UK travel market has suffered more than any of its European counterparts over the past year, according to a new study - travel activity dropped 15 per cent in the UK with Russia and Sweden also among the worst-hit European countries in terms of visitors...

World Cup refunds if England win

It could be the World Cup travel deal that England fans have been waiting for - travel firm Thomas Cook is offering optimistic England football fans looking for a 2010 World Cup holiday the chance to win a full refund on the cost of the trip if England manage to win the tournament and Wayne Rooney is top scorer...

Higher taxes for frequent flyers

The chairman of the Government's Committee on Climate Change suggested those who flew more often should face higher levies than those who travelled infrequently - Lord Turner was speaking as the Committee unveiled its report which said drastic action - including higher taxes - were needed to curb the growth in aviation demand over the next four decades...

09, 2009 December:

Elementary, my dear Watson

Linking a tourism campaign to a soon to be released Hollywood blockbuster is guaranteed to pull in the punters - think what Baz Luhrmann's ‘Australia' did for the country - so it's to be expected that UK tourist bods have themed their latest campaign around the new ‘Sherlock Holmes' film, which arrives in UK cinemas on Boxing Day...

Istanbul: the culture capital 2010

Home to a wealth of history, a vibrant arts and cultural scene and the unique cosmopolitanism of a city linking Europe and Asia, the West and the East, Istanbul in Turkey is gearing up for its title of European Capital of Culture in 2010...

Fears over World Cup accommodation

South Africa has enough hotel rooms for the football fans expected to descend on the country for the 2010 World Cup, tourism minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has said...

Savills selling Sandbanks

Savills is marketing the sale of a prime area of beachfront development land in the sought-after Sandbanks area in for £7.5m - the 0.34ha site lies on the Sandbanks peninsula on the south side of Banks Road. Savills Canford Cliffs is marketing the site jointly with the Southampton office...

V&A welcomes new galleries

The V&A's new Medieval and Renaissance Galleries have just opened in London - the V&A's latest public contribution is the magnificent new Medieval and Renaissance galleries, which open in time for Christmas. They're the most recent in a series of important and hugely popular new displays created over the past 10 years, which started with the British Galleries in 2001...

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