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New tourism minister needed as Huddleston switches job
Huddleston faced industry anger after his comments in a heated interview with TTG editor Sophie Griffiths in December 2020
Businesses await energy price plan and train strikes return
Attention turns to government’s attempts to help firms deal with sky-high energy bills, while rail strikes postponed due to the Queen’s funeral will take place early next month
Grant Shapps to face travel industry wrath at ITT conference
Former transport secretary has agreed to speak at next year’s ITT conference in Doha
Mini-Budget ‘next Friday’ and Bahamas’ Charles referendum
The government will make two separate announcement on energy help and tax cuts next week, according to Westminster sources
Businesses will get energy help from October, govt confirms
Prime minister’s office confirms businesses will get energy rebates similar to consumers
Heathrow disruption and energy bills help set for delay?
Govt admits firms could face delays in receiving help with their energy bills, plus Heathrow disruption as flights diverted away from central London
New Zealand eases Covid-19 protocols for all travellers
The move comes after the country’s government ended its traffic light system on Monday (12 September)
'Meet the new secretary of state for package holidays – Jacob Rees-Mogg'
’Unless the secretary of state comes under sustained pressure from other MPs, further important changes to the regulations seem very unlikely indeed,’ writes travel legal expert Alan Bowen for TTG
Downing St confirms 'mini Budget' as sterling falls again
Government pledges to deliver fiscal statement later this month to address cost of living issues
Worries over 'full' capital and London airports, plus more Covid boosters
Government issues warning that London and its airports could be overwhelmed for Queen’s funeral next week
Nation in mourning for Her Majesty The Queen as tributes flood in
Reaction to the Queen’s death dominates Friday’s front pages and news websites
Just six months’ energy bills support ‘disappointing’ – Abta
Chief Mark Tanzer says travel businesses should be in pole position for extended support as they head into low season while carrying debts from the Covid crisis
Truss announces six-month energy costs cap for businesses
Household energy bills to be capped at £2,500 a year for the next two years, starting October, but businesses will only receive like support for six months
MPs call on Truss to support travel and aviation
A group of 55 MPs has written to Liz Truss asking for her support for the travel and aviation sector
DfT gains new minister as Truss seeks to rebuild government
Kevin Foster appointed minister of state at the Department for Transport
Truss to reveal energy plan and Ryanair boss’s winter warning
All eyes on new PM as she prepares to lay out government strategy on energy bills, while Michael O’Leary has warned aviation is in for another ‘extremely challenging’ winter
Grant Shapps replaced as transport secretary
Anne-Marie Trevelyan to succeed Shapps in new prime minister Liz Truss’s cabinet
Agency invites local MP Shapps to pop in and ‘book some sunshine’ after transport sec sacking
His performance in office was slammed by the industry on social media as ‘useless’
New transport secretary urged to support travel industry growth
Industry bodies have called on Anne-Marie Trevelyan to work closely with the sector to further its post-pandemic recovery
Transport sec Shapps sacked while energy plan boosts business
Covid-era transport secretary one of the victims as new PM Liz Truss swings the axe, while businesses have been buoyed by suggestions the govt is poised to act on the energy crisis
Winter is coming – so welcome to the calm before the storm
The cost of living crisis hasn’t fully hit home for travel yet, but the industry is bracing itself for a shock when soaring fuel bills start to kick in
Truss takes over as prime minister while pound plummets against dollar
Tuesday national headlines dominated by Liz Truss’s victory in the Conservative leadership contest, which sees her take over from Boris Johnson as prime minister
Advantage boss ‘hoping travel won't go unnoticed’ by new govt
Julia Lo Bue-Said urged new prime minister Liz Truss to “get to grips with the colossal tasks in hand”
Industry bodies tell Truss to sort energy and tax burdens
Action needed now on energy and tax, industry associations tell Truss