Editorial What next for the Sofia hotels? The Kempinski Hotel in Sofia finally has new owners after many years of trying. The new owners are the Victoria Group who already own other resort hotels in the country such as Elenite…

Editorial “The Russians are coming” is an old classic cold war film quote, for many countries in 2015; this very statement is made more in hope than anything else. We are not referring to some Russian speaking enclave stuck into…

Editorial A rather mixed start to the year for the travel sector. Firstly comes the news that Cyprus Airways are effectively ‘”no more”. The Cypriot Government, who are the airlines main shareholder, were forced to close the airline down after…

Editorial Another year draws to a close and it’s at this time we reflect on the past year and look forward briefly to the year ahead. Without doubt the biggest talking point in travel this year has surrounded Malaysian Airlines;…

Editorial Rail On the 14th November 2007, a mere seven years ago, the first commercial passenger train travelled between London and Paris, in so doing it went under the English Channel i.e. that piece of water that had separated Great…

Editorial Moving into the regions Whilst its is true that Europe’s major airports are getting busier and busier, it is also undeniable that regional airports across Europe are not only growing in passenger numbers but also in their attraction to…

Editorial EU Prevents more charges People have their own individual views about the merits, or otherwise, of the European Union and indeed regarding anything that is harmonized within the European Union with regards to rules and regulations. There is one…

Editorial The first half of the year for the aviation industry has been a fairly memorable one; if only for the wrong reasons. As we issue our summer July and August Newsletter yet more aviation disasters with planes from Taiwan…

Editorial Auctions are nothing new; traditionally one has always associated them with high value paintings or works of art. More recently, auctions have come to the fore when harnessed with technology and the internet and creating  a whole new industry…

Editorial For several years, the booking online through so called Online Travel Agents (OTA”S) has been a ‘pain in the rear’ for hotel owners. The fact of the matter being that when travellers book through an OTA, the hotels loose…

Editorial The Plot Thickens As we go to press, the mysterious case of the disappearing Malaysian Airlines plane is still only reaching a conclusion at a snails pace. If it did meet its end in the Southern Indian Ocean as…