One in four holidaymakers do not trust travel agents, according to an independent survey of over 2,000 consumers. Furthermore holiday review sites are not trusted either especially as some are owned by tour operators…
Travel advice 6 | Archive for September, 2009
Bed Banks threaten to leave ABTA
Bed banks OR accommodation only suppliers, will review their ABTA membership if proposals are passed to make them accept liability if a travel agency fails..
Online flight bookings 24 hr cooling of
Travel trade not happy with a call for online flights to have a 24 hour cooling of period, after a passenger watchdog renewed a call for airlines to improve the process of booking tickets online.
USA visitor tax $10 per person – from December
If your thinking of visiting the USA, you not only have the hassle that is the ESta (Electronic System for Travel Authorisation ), to comply with. But now you have to pay $10 pp just to get in..
Thomas cook defraud trial January 2010
Fourteen people denied conspiring to defraud Thomas Cook of about £235,000 on Thomascook Jamaica bookings using compromised credit cards at a hearing at Maidstone Crown Court on September 14.
