British holiday information

Whitby Abbey has been named the most romantic ruin in a nationwide poll. The poll, conducted for BBC’s Countryfile Magazine, asked readers to vote for their favorites from a list of ten sites. The ten sites were selected from a list of 50 properties submitted by the UK’s leading conservation and heritage bodies. The top [...]

Swansea based coach operator Diamond Holidays has gone into administration. The company, along with Brian Isaac Coach Holidays, was put in the hands of administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on Friday. Both companies provided coach holidays within the UK and Europe. Below is an excerpt of the announcement posted to Diamond Holiday’s website: Customer Enquiries Outstanding Day [...]

There’s more travel misery ahead for anyone planning to travel by rail during the Easter school holidays after rail staff belonging to the RMT and TSSA unions announced their intention to strike. Although rail travel during the Easter weekend will be unaffected, industrial action has been planned between the hours of 06:00 and 10:00, and [...]

British Tourism Week started today with the official launch at the Celtic Manor, Newport, Wales – the home of this year’s Ryder Cup. Although officially running from 15 – 21 March, the annual British Tourism Week was heralded in by the illumination of Hadrian’s Wall on Saturday, 13 March. This week-long campaign, now in its [...]

The Exchange and Rentals business arm of Wyndham Worldwide is set to acquire Hoseasons Holdings Ltd in a deal said to be worth around $60 million. Suffolk based Hoseasons was established in the 1940s and currently offers more than 15,000 lodges, cottages, villas, caravans and boats across seven European countries. Hoseasons brands include: Bowhills, holidaybank, [...]

If you are ever in any doubt about how beautiful Britain is just check out the Guardian’s Britain’s best view gallery which features stunning photos that just make you want to go on holiday now! Personally, my favourite has to be the Old Man of Storr on the Isle of Skye which won first place [...]

I’ve been contacted by Christian Roudaut, a French television reporter, preparing a TV package for the Franco-German channel Arte on “staycation” in Britain. He is looking for a British family who would normally go on holiday abroad and who has decided to stay in Britain this summer (weakness of the pound, credit crunch, no airport [...]

If you are yet to book your summer holiday and are still weighing up whether to take a British holiday or one abroad, maybe the latest forecast for the Met Office may sway you in favour of staying in the UK. According to today’s summer forecast, summer 2009 is ‘odds on for a barbecue summer’. [...]

It’s a sad state of affairs if a survey commissioned by Vauxhall Motors is representative of the whole of the UK population. Sky News reported yesterday that a survey conducted on behalf of the car manufacturer found that Britons will only see an average of 28 British towns and cities in their lifetime – a [...]

If ever there was a more pressing reason for taking a staycation this year it has to be the recent press release from Tourism Concern, the independent organisation fighting exploitation in tourism. Tourism Concern highlights the effects of large-scale tourism on poor communities in developing countries and is calling for a stop to the development [...]