Editorial Bed Time Stories The acceleration of the date when Bulgaria will take over the seat of the EU presidency from the second half of 2017 to 1st January 2018 will no doubt have sent the local state employees, brought…

Editorial Retribution time? Ryanair have changed the face of air travel in Europe - for better or for worse. What they do is deliver to their passengers exactly” what it says on the box’”. They have brought air travel to…

Editorial Imagine the scene; the local inhabitants of Bourgas and Varna parading in the streets, smashing hotel windows and daubing graffiti on restaurants filled with throngs of tourists from across the globe, their message – go home tourists we don’t…

Editorial Controlled by technology Are each and everyone of us becoming too dependent on technology? That same question has been heard now for several years but when asked five or ten years ago, any such dependence we thought we had…

Editorial More and more low cost The rise and onward rise in importance on the local level of both Wizz Air and Ryanair is nothing short of spectacular. Hardly a month goes by these days without a new route opening…

Editorial The Sharing Economy The rise and rise of the ‘sharing economy’ is well documented’, the names of Uber and Airbnb are known by many travellers and judging by the market shares they have attained in their respective travel sectors,…

Editorial There are several ways to skin a cat and you don’t need a sledge hammer to crack a nut; or so the sayings go. The hot news in the travel world is that with almost immediate effect, passengers travelling…

Editorial The short ski How fast do we now see time honoured assumptions changing almost before our very eyes? The rate of change is gathering momentum at a breakneck pace and this not only applies to technology which seems to…

Editorial Forget the water and contact lens solution, here's a gun The recent shooting at Fort Lauderdale Airport puts the whole security charade into perspective and highlights the farce behind airport security. Starting at the bottom of the ladder, in…

Editorial This is the month when we look back at what was hitting our travel radar during 2016 and we certainly weren’t short of news stories; the majority of them sadly were in the news for the wrong reasons. Anyhow…

Editorial The shape of things to come A recent announcement by Ryanair contains news that, on the face of it, might start to make the likes of Lufthansa, BA and Air France sweat somewhat. It said that by the end of this…