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Hays Travel's apprenticeship scheme scoops diversity and inclusion award

The agency’s onboarding strategy has been named Diversity and Inclusion Programme of the Year at the North East Apprenticeship Awards

Airport accessibility 'improved significantly' last year, says CAA

The CAA’s Airport Accessibility Report, which assesses 26 of the largest UK airports, details airports efforts in providing disabled and less mobile passengers the standard of service to which they are entitled

The Big Question: Can aviation do more to help disabled travellers?

Frequent press stories about accessibility ordeals appear to highlight a need for improvement across the whole sector, but the sector insists things are getting better

Advantage to offer members free access to new anti-fraud platform

The new initiative follows the consortium’s partnership with Profit (Prevention Of Fraud in Trade), which was announced at its conference hosted in Spain in May

TTC urges travel to 'avoid distractions' on path towards sustainability goals

Last year, The Travel Corporation reduced its Scope 1 emissions by 27%, Scope 2 emissions by 42% and Scope 3 emissions by 45% from 2019

Jet-setting cash courier jailed for role in £100m smuggling scheme

Beatrice Auty was a part of a criminal network that exploited business class flights for their extra luggage allowance to smuggle cash to Dubai, and used a WhatsApp group entitled ‘sunshine and lollipops’ to communicate

Europe heatwave: Holidaymakers evacuated in Greece as wildfires spread

Travellers have been removed from at least six seaside communities in the country as their residencies are threatened by wildfires caused by extreme weather conditions

Travellers warned of two-and-a-half-hour delays at Port of Dover this weekend

The port said enhanced passport checks by French officials had ’significantly’ increased processing times

New state of emergency declared in Peru amid further political unrest

It comes after a political protest in Lima and Southern Peru has been announced for 19 July

La Palma: thousands evacuated following Canary Islands wildfire

According to reports, the blaze began early on Saturday (15 July) and has already consumed around 11,100 acres of land

World opening up to emboldened LGBTQ+ couples – Kuoni

Kuoni’s first first LGBTQ+ honeymoon report, shared exclusively with TTG, reveals how same-sex honeymoons have become more welcome around the world

New Gatwick strikes 'yet another blow' for embattled travel sector

However, Advantage chief Julia Lo Bue-Said said the industry had built a ’high level’ of resilience into its operations in recent months

Gatwick strike: almost 1,000 workers to walk out later this month

Workers will strike for an initial four days from 28 July to 1 August, before a second walkout in August

Abta LifeLine launches new summertime and back to school grant

The charity’s summertime grant will run until the end of September

Boycotts not the answer says Ambassador after Faroes whale hunt furore

Line says calls in destinations home to ’outdated’ practices remind authorities ’tourists want to marvel at the wildlife – not watch it being killed’

Growth in spend with agents slows significantly in June despite lates surge

Month-on-month growth in spending with agents down from +30.1% in May to +9.9% in May to +0.1% in June, according to new data from Barclays

Cruise passengers bear witness to aftermath of brutal whale slaughter

Ambassador Cruise Line has apologised after Ambition arrived in Torshavn following a bloody pilot whale hunt, with chief Christian Verhounig stressing his ’extreme disappointment’

Free train tickets among proposals to reduce aviation emissions

Requiring airlines to offer free rail tickets to the airport for passengers taking international flights and giving customers ’realistic’ travel times for domestic flights are two ways the aviation industry could reduce its carbon footprint, according to a new charter

Just how worried is travel about its progress on sustainability and DEI?

Only around a fifth of firms rank sustainability (22%) or diversity, equity and inclusion (20%) as their number one business priority

Scheme making careers in cruise more accessible set to expand

The Compass Project has supported 10 pupils from socially diverse backgrounds to engage with the industry and its job prospects

Harnessing neurodiverse talent now 'a business imperative' for travel

Travel needs to do more to attract neurodiverse job candidates and serve neurodiverse travellers, a TTG seminar has been told

Aviation's net profit margin 'unsustainable in the long term', Walsh warns

In 2023, Iata expect airlines globally to post a $9.8 billion net profit

How three travel brands started having DEI conversations

’There is no competition in DEI – if we use it as a forum to compete, then the travel industry will never, ever change,’ TTG’s Fairer Travel Diversity Forum told

Travel urged to 'never ever' question the extent of someone's disability

’You’re not doctors, and even if you are, you’re not my doctor,’ Matthew Campbell-Hill, chair of the government’s disabled persons transport advisory committee, told TTG’s Fairer Travel Diversity Forum