Travel News

Since Monday, many eyes have been on Hurricane Gustav as it barrels through the Caribbean and causes havoc for locals and tourists alike.
It’s not unexpected to have a storm like this at this time of year, and Gustav is the third hurricane of the 2008 season, but that doesn’t make it any easier to handle. [...]

The worst nightmare of many travelers happened again this week, with a plane crash killing 153 people, the vast majority of them tourists and holidaymakers.
Spanair Flight JK5022 Crashes
The Spanair Flight JK5022 from Madrid to Gran Canaria, a vacation island popular with Europeans almost took off at its scheduled time of 1.00pm, but the airplane [...]

After months and months of rising gas prices, it looks as though things might be looking a little bit more positive. In the last few weeks most people across the United States have seen a fall in how much they have to spend to fill a tank – in some areas, gas prices have fallen [...]

Wherever you are in the world this week, everybody’s attention is heading for Beijing – especially today with the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games taking place. The latest travel news out of Beijing includes these stories:
Plenty of hotels have rooms available – and a lot of news reports mentioned that checking up on [...]

Qantas might have been made famous by Dustin Hoffman’s character in Rainman when he repeated said he wanted to fly Qantas because “Qantas never crashed”, but anyone reading the headlines this week would have felt a bit less secure about flying on Australia’s national airline.
Hole in Side of Qantas Jet
The week started with an explosion [...]

With the countdown until the opening of the Beijing Olymmpics getting ever shorter, there’s a constant stream of news coming out of China that travelers both for the Olympics and for other reasons should be aware of. Some of the announcements will make life more pleasant for travelers, some more difficult and some are just [...]

With the Fourth of July here again, things are looking a little bit different on the travel scene if you compare it to the same holiday season in other years: and our ol’ friend, rising gas prices, can take most of the blame for that. Since the Fourth of July in 2007, the average price [...]

The big travel destination for Europe this summer should be Spain, because this weekend the Expo Zaragoza 2008 opens up, ready to entertain travelers for the next three months. From now on, Zaragoza should be hitting the headlines with a whole lot more regularity.
World Expos like this are scheduled about four years in advance, so [...]

Last week’s news that American Airlines would be adding a US$15 charge for the first checked piece of baggage was bad enough. But it turns out that this was just the tip of the iceberg. Numerous airlines have just announced increases in various fees and charges, and without exception, the airlines are blaming the rising [...]

The last week or two have been filled with natural disasters in the Asian region, and even now it’s hard to get really accurate information about the outcomes and effects. But for tourists traveling in China – and to a lesser extent in Burma – these natural catastrophes are definitely not what they planned for [...]

Nervous plane passengers must be getting a bit more nervous this week if they’re keeping up with the headlines. The risks of runway collisions plus an increase in the number of planes landing with almost no fuel left are just a couple of the problems that have been made public this week, and it’s enough [...]