Travel Industry Journal

Ticket, passport, wheelchair… By Clive Gilbert BBC News
Despite a new European law to prevent airlines from discriminating against disabled people, planning a holiday can be a fraught exercise for a wheelchair user. A question which simultaneously evokes pangs of excitement and trepidation is “where are we going for our holidays?”
The answer for […]

Well, it’s been a bizarre and roundly disagreeable week here at Killing Batteries, Minneapolis Edition. To start on a lighter note, I was finally forced to address a, erm, ‘condition’, that presented itself virtually the day after I arrived in the US. Since the US is the only country in the world where […]

Have you heard about British Airways imposing a bag fee. Well it’s true February 2007. Even if you are under the weight limit, but have more than one check in bag, you will be charges through the nose. This is pasted from the BA website: Excess baggage charged at a fixed fee Longhaul Shorthaul UK […]

Have you ever gone on a summer or winter vacation only to find you used about ¼ of all the stuff you brought? Or packed for a sunny vacation destination only to find that they are having the coldest season on record?
Packing is a tricky and of course is wholly dependent on the locale […]

Friends/LP editors/groupies,
I’m happy to announce that I submitted the last of my Tuscany work for two different LP books (Tuscany and Umbria 5 and Italy 8, both due in stores February 2008) last Tuesday, 10 full days before deadline. Now I don’t wanna brag or anything, but WHO’S YOUR DADDY??? WHO’S YOUR DADDY […]

ATHENS (Thomson Financial) - The Greek commuting public will face serious transport problems tomorrow due to the 24 hour nation wide strike called by the General Confederation of Workers (GSEE) and the Civil Servants Union (ADEDY), which may potentially grind the whole country to a halt.
The general strike was called by the unions to demand […]