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Virgin holidays: legal action by lastminute

Posted on July 3rd, 2009 in Featured, Travel advice

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The Book early benefits campaign by Virgin holidays, has got of too a bad start after Lastminute started legal action for Copyright infringement.

Virgin Holidays today said it was “disappointed” by lastminute.com’s decision to start legal action over its latest marketing campaign.

Virgin initially refused to comment on lastminute’s move to sue Virgin for trademark infringement.

The legal action is over the the slogan, dontleaveituntilthelastminute.com. The URL connects to the Virgin Holidays website.

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Greece Foreign office advice

Posted on July 3rd, 2009 in Featured, Foreign travel advice

Greece seems to have lost its sense of humour, and has caused the Foreign Office (FCO) to update its travel advice to Greece following the arrest of Brits dressed up as nuns.

In its local laws and customs section, the FCO warns travellers that certain types of fancy dress might offend the Greek authorities, and be considered a breach of decency laws.

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Mooning is also considered unacceptable, according to the advice, and police have warned they will not tolerate it.

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Travel advice tips booking travel online

Posted on July 2nd, 2009 in Featured, Travel advice

travel advice tips booking travel onlineLet me start by saying the best travel deals will be the ones you book online, for these reasons:

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  1. By booking travel online you get those extra online travel discounts, plus no booking fees.
  2. Just by booking travel online you save over £20 pp in booking fees alone.
  3. Online travel has all the deals you won’t find with a travel agent or over the phone..
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Travelrepublic MD trial over ATOL breaches

Posted on July 2nd, 2009 in Featured, Travel advice

kane-pirieThe Smarmy Travel Republic managing director Kane Pirie will face trial for allegedly breaching Atol regulations in a crucial “test case” for the travel industry.

Travel republic court case.

Counsel for the CAA described the issue as “whether the defendants put together package holidays” and “whether there was a single contract between the consumer and company for all services”.

Both Pirie and Travel Republic as a company have pleaded not guilty to the same 20 charges of breaking Civil Aviation Authority regulations over package holidays.

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Travel agents under pressure from Banks

Posted on July 1st, 2009 in Featured, Travel advice

Travel agents under pressure from BanksTravel advice tip: Travel agents and small tour operators, are being put under pressure by banks as they are seen as high risk.

Some banks are threatening to remove merchant services Mastercard visa machines to you and I.

The Association of Independent Tour Operators (AITO) has secured a meeting with the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) to discuss the banks’ unfair treatment of travel companies.

The meeting follows complaints from operators and travel agents who feel they have been unfairly targeted by the banks.

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