Thomas Cook’s Dan Barber wins Inbetweeners 2 prize The winner of a prize to attend the London premiere of The Inbetweeners 2 movie toasts his success with champagne from competition organisers Tourism and Events Queensland. Dan Barber of Thomas Cook won two tickets to the premiere as well as £250 to buy a red-carpet outfit, courtesy of film distributor
“Our scale is impossible to replicate. It gives us the buying power to drive down prices”
Tui boss Dave Burling trumpets the operator’s latest results
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Entertainment Films and the tourist board. He is pictured with wife Karen and flanked by Tourism and Events Queensland’s Jane Nicholson (left) and Ashley Hale.
Gambia Tourism Board says ‘no ebola’ cases in country The Gambia Tourism Board advised that no cases of ebola had been reported in the country and that UK tourists continue to be welcomed. It said measures have been taken to prevent the virus from entering the West African country, including restrictions on air routes from infected countries such as Liberia and Sierra Leone, several hundred miles to the south.
‘Tourism undesirable’? Travel figures to oppose the motion Leading industry figures will speak at a Sustainable September Tourism Debate, part of Blue & Green Tomorrow’s month-long celebration of sustainability. Martin Brackenbury, director of Classic Collection Holidays, and VisitBritain’s Patricia Yates will argue against the motion that ‘Growth in tourism is undesirable: it is rarely economically, socially or environmentally good’. For tickets for the September 3 event, go to:
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Spending on travel and leisure up 8% last month Spending on travel and entertainment grew by 8% last month as more families took summer holidays, according to Barclaycard. Consumers spent
8% more on hotels, 4% more at travel agents and 2% more on airline tickets, compared with June. Overall consumer spending on holidays and entertainment was up by 3.5% year on year.
TripAdvisor launches GreenLeaders hotel scheme TripAdvisor has unveiled a programme to help consumers in Europe choose hotels that are environmentally-friendly and engage with sustainability. The TripAdvisor GreenLeaders initiative currently includes 6,000 eco-friendly hotels and B&Bs worldwide. The scheme was first launched in the US last year.
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Thomas Cook staff, including chief executive Harriet Green, are close to achieving their goal of raising £100,000 for charity after participating in Sunday’s RideLondon. Team Sunny Hearters battled torrential rain to complete the course in just over six hours. Several other travel industry riders also completed the course. Pictured from left: Graham Clarkson, George Clarkson, Gemma Clarkson, Harriet Green and Phil McDougall. Other team members included James Green, Liz Williams and Duncan Marlow.
Air fares ‘must rise’ if carriers are to meet emission targets Cheap air travel must end if the airline industry is to meet its pledge to cap its greenhouse gas emissions, a study has found. Ticket prices must rise by at least 1.4% a year even if the industry invests heavily in more-efficient aircraft and introduces lower-carbon fuels, meaning the average fare paid by UK passengers would need to rise from £170 last year to £195 by 2023. The University of Southampton study concludes that the long-term reduction in the cost of air travel, which has become 1.3% cheaper a year on average since 1979, must be reversed. The growth in demand for flights is likely to outpace improvements in fuel efficiency, meaning the only way the industry could meet its commitment to “carbon-neutral growth by 2020” would be to
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deter people from flying by making it more costly. The annual growth in the number of passengers would need to be halved from 4.8% to 2.4% a year to cap emissions at the level projected for 2020. Professor John Preston, co-author of the report, said: “There is little doubt that increasing demand for air travel will continue for the foreseeable future. As a result, civil aviation is going to become an increasingly significant
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contributor to greenhouse The authors accept that any
move to suppress demand by raising fares would be “strongly resisted” by consumers. They suggest that the
International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is too weak to fulfil its climate pledges because it “lacks the legal authority to force compliance”.
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