UK and Ireland

Rail tour operator insists older travellers are 'driving the green agenda' amid bookings boom

Ffestiniog Travel, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2024, reported EU rail tickets sales were up 56% compared to 2022

Advantage boss confident current strong booking levels 'to continue into 2024'

Bookings departing between 18 and 28 December are up 44% year-on-year, according to Advantage’s chief executive Julia Lo Bue-Said

Opulent, sexy, and audacious: Checking in to the W Edinburgh

W Hotels Worldwide has landed in Scotland. Jane Anderson discovers how the brand’s 69th property is making its mark.

Bookings for existing Cunard ships ‘keeping up with Queen Anne sales’

Upcoming ship Queen Anne is ‘driving’ bookings, but sales levels for Cunard’s other vessels are ‘keeping up’, UK sales director Tom Mahoney has told TTG

Market Place Travel opens second branch with ‘beat any quote’ pledge

The two-branch TTG Top 50 agency said it will try to beat any holiday quote customers have seen elsewhere

Agency puts in round-the-clock shift to help customers stranded due to rail disruption

Westoe Travel booked new hotels and train tickets for most affected customers, but some travelled home in a hire car

EasyJet puts autumn 2024 and half-term flights on sale

EasyJet reveals its autumn 2024 flight schedule of 68,000 flights across its network

Former Tui retail manager Sarah Guy to join Perfect Getaways as RSM

Guy returns to travel with the northwest-based agency after leaving the industry temporarily in September 2021 to take up a role with Holland & Barrett

Thomson and Tui veteran David Burling to step down after 34 years

David Burling joined Thomson Holidays as a graduate trainee in 1990 and served as managing director of Tui UK and Ireland from 2011 to 2015

Why Four Seasons Hotel Hampshire is a festive treat for foodies

Our writer samples some of the hotel’s seasonal treats waiting to tempt clients over Christmas and New Year

'London’s most incredible new hotel for decades': Checking in to Raffles London at the OWO

TTG Luxury explores the capital’s iconic new hotel

Raffles London at The OWO's MD Philippe LeBoeuf on his career, building a team and going 'the extra 5%'

LeBoeuf tells TTG Luxury how his career led him here, and what it takes to run such a hotel

Glasgow airport reopens after heavy snow as UK braces for more adverse weather

Airport authorities said on Sunday (3 December) the runway was ’fully operational’ after weekend snow

Multi-million investment to put Ireland’s Waterford airport on international flight map

Prime minister Leo Varadkar said the development would open south-eastern Ireland to many more visitors

Celebrity unveils expanded educational programme with 1,000 agent places

The line is offering flights from Manchester and Gatwick in a bid to try and ease ongoing airlift issues, said EMEA vice-president Giles Hawke

Celebrity boss vows to increase ex-UK capacity 'over time'

The line’s president Laura Hodges Bethge insisted the premium brand remained committed to the UK and Ireland market

Brits ready to take multiple holidays next year and up their spend

Nearly six in 10 Brits will look to book at least three holidays next year, according to Luxury Escapes, with popular extravagances including flight and room upgrades, and fine dining

The travel trends and buzzwords agents can't afford to ignore next year

Who are Generation T? What’s the deal with ’shoulder shoppers’? And how do you court ’sustainability selectors’? Abta sought to demystify a number of emerging markets at its Travel Trends conference this week – here’s what agents need to know

10 of the best experiences along Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way

Help clients fill their hearts with Ireland’s treasures on the Wild Atlantic Way, a rugged coastline that offers the warmest of welcomes

EasyJet bosses predict its 'almost impossible to replicate' operator model is set for rapid growth

EasyJet holidays can easily tap into parent airline capacity to grow rapidly, bosses say as they reveal strong growth in profits

EasyJet counts cost of Middle East crisis but is upbeat about summer

EasyJet spells out the impact of the crisis in the Middle East but says it will not derail its ambitions for the coming year

EasyJet holidays contributes to good 2023 group financial result

EasyJet has revealed a turnaround in its 2023 financial results helped by its in-house tour operation

Jo Rzymowska: 'If you don’t evolve in travel, you become extinct'

Industry veteran Jo Rzymowska discusses her life, her 40-year travel career and why the industry needs to embrace change during a wide-ranging chat at the Aito conference

Carnival UK commits to talks over the future of more than 900 roles

Under UK law, employers are required to tell the Insolvency Service of planned redundancies of more than 20