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Polling Booth Set Up on Great Barrier Reef
Written by Lewis Lane October 31st 2011

Tourism Australia set up a booth on a sandbank to encourage Aussies and tourists to vote for the Great Barrier Reef as one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature.

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USA Holidays Win Top Place in Telegraph Travel Awards
Written by Lewis Lane October 28th 2011

Readers of the Daily Telegraph newspaper have declared the USA their favourite holiday destination in this year’s Telegraph Travel Awards, with other English-speaking destinations following close behind.

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Cheap Holidays in Europe
Written by Lewis Lane October 27th 2011

Cheap holidays in Europe are making a recovery, according to the latest quarterly report from the European Travel Commission (ETC).

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EasyJet Strikes Cheap Flights Deal With the MoD
Written by Lewis Lane October 26th 2011

The budget airline is branching out from cheap holidays travel into the world of troop movements.

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Government Delays ATOL Reforms
Written by Lewis Lane October 26th 2011

Travel operators have been given more time to prepare for a new system aimed at increasing customer protection when booking cheap holidays.

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Monarch Brings More Brits to Beautiful Barcelona
Written by Lewis Lane October 25th 2011

City breaks in the cosmopolitan Catalonian capital of Barcelona are in demand the year-round, and this week, leisure flights specialist Monarch Airlines announced that travellers in the south east looking for cheap holidays in the city now have more choice.

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The Government Refuses to Waver Over APD
Written by Lewis Lane October 25th 2011

Despite years of campaigning by airlines, travel operators, consumer groups and airports, the UK government has effectively dashed the hopes of anyone hoping for a short-term cut in the so-called “tourist tax” – Air Passenger Duty (APD).

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Ryanair’s Ambitious Expansion Plan
Written by Lewis Lane October 25th 2011

The airline has ferried perhaps more passengers to cheap holidays in Europe than any other in recent years – its advertising slogan claims it to be “the world’s favourite airline”, after all – and this success looks like translating into hundreds more aircraft to fuel a massive

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Air France Boasts of Lowest-Carbon Flight Ever
Written by Lewis Lane October 24th 2011

The race to be the world’s greenest airline heated up this week, when Air France claimed to have successfully completed the flight with the lowest carbon emissions on record.

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Sir Richard Abseils Down Completed Spaceport
Written by Lewis Lane October 18th 2011

Virgin Galactic’s spaceport – the first of its kind – has finally been completed in the New Mexico desert.

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