Thomas Dolman from North Wales published an unusual picture of a jet on his Instragram. A British tourist photographed the plane with a drone in the small village of Wólka Nosowska in Mazovia.more
Hundreds of hotels in Spain are facing imminent closure over the collapse of British travel giant Thomas Cook, the head of the Spanish hotel federation warned on Monday.more
Tourists from overseas at a popular sightseeing spot in Kyoto are being reminded of etiquette via their smartphones in a pilot project that began Monday, after local residents complained about behavior such as taking pictures of geisha and their apprentice maiko without permission.more
A total of 61,000 Thomas Cook holidaymakers have been flown back to the UK, days after the Government launched the biggest peacetime repatriation effort in history.more
The 700 or so Thomas Cook employees at the tour operator's offices on Palma's Can Valero industrial estate are unlikely to be paid this month. Local management explained to the employees on Tuesday that all indications are that salaries won't be paid. A final decision will be announced on Friday.more
The immediate reason for the collapse of the Thomas Cook travel agency - the oldest and one of the largest in the world - was the failure of last-resort negotiations on an additional £ 200 million in collateral, but the company's problems have been increasing for several years.more
Around 3,600 clients of Thomas Cook's Polish unit Neckermann Polska remain outside Poland, regional authorities said on Wednesday after the local travel agency announced insolvency.more
While thousands of holidaymakers were waiting in overseas airports for the government's emergency airlift to get them home and Thomas Cook staff were losing their jobs, former bosses of the stricken travel firm came under fire for receiving payouts worth more than £35m in the last 12 years.more
The American travel portal TripAdvisor won yesterday a lawsuit against him in Barcelona by the Spanish owner of two restaurants. The entrepreneur claimed that there were too many negative customer reviews of his locals on the portal.more
Thomas Cook has admitted this morning that it is facing a huge funding black hole and shareholders have been warned there is a "significant risk of no recovery".more
In the Berjaya hotel complex on the small Malaysian island of Tioman, known among tourists, lying on the east coast of mainland Malaysia, a fire broke out this morning. "34 Polish tourists were evacuated. Nothing happened to anyone," said Rainbow Tours spokeswoman.more
A wildfire in progress on the island of Zakynthos has led authorities to evacuate some exposed houses on the village of Keri, in the southern part of the island, as well as 120 tourists staying at a hotel there.more
A wildfire that raged through the Spanish holiday island of Gran Canaria for more than a week has finally been brought under control, emergency services said on Monday.more
The number of tourists in Poland who took advantage of accommodation in the first half of this year increased by over 920.4 thousand. to 16.06 million from 15.14 million a year earlier at the same time - according to data from the Central Statistical Office (GUS). This is an increase of over 6 percent.more