Editorial A bit of a mess The national flag of the Netherlands is coloured red, white and blue and evolved in the 17th Century from the earlier 16thcentury variant of orange, white and blue. The Netherlands is one of Europe’s…

Editorial Fuelling the Cost This month’s edition certainly seems to be full of rants and is heavily airline focussed, for which no apologies will be forthcoming. Along with a conspiracy theory that these days seems to be attached to every…

Editorial The Summer Commeth Whilst the first summer tourists will no doubt have arrived on the Black Sea already, the month of May is considered the month when the summer season typically starts, then the theory goes that visitor numbers…

Editorial One or Two? Would you feel comfortable if you knew that the plane you were flying on had just one pilot? Getting the travelling publics opinion on this will likely throw up a mixed bag of answers, but as…

Editorial It must be Brexit - no, wait As the world of travel gets back to near normality its perhaps curious to observe the challenges some profess to still encounter whilst at the same time questioning whether the challenges are…

Editorial Friday Moved to Thursday Whilst having a conversation with a Zurich based friend recently, the point was made that a new norm now prevailed in the world of travel and whilst it is true that over the past couple…

Editorial This is the time of year when we look back at some of the monthly articles that found our attention during 2022.  There seems to be less articles of amusement this year and more articles pointing a question at…

Editorial Money Talks The Football World Cup which is currently occupying people’s attention both on the sports pages as well as in the mainstream news, is already the subject matter of documentaries and investigative journalism. Regardless though of what is…

Editorial Burning the facts In the less democratic parts of the world, to go against the narrative is hardly likely to boost your career prospects and it may well be said that it may also be life threatening. We live…

Editorial Travel is a Majority Decision The pandemic brought lots of opinion on how it would impact the world of travel and many opportunists were keen to make their view of the future heard. Just how many of these same…

Editorial A sense of perspective required There was almost a sense of resignation detected in the Bulgarian Ministry of Tourism’s press release in August that the Black Sea summer season will end up at around 80% of 2019 levels (the…