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In an interview with London’s Evening Standard, Philip Hammond, the new Transport Secretary has announced cash rewards for airports that score high on parameters such as security, queue length, and car parking. This statement was a direct reference to Hammond’s prediction that the profitability of Britain’s airports in the future will rest heavily on the passenger experience they impart.

Hammond expects operators like BAA to receive the altered airport policy positively. He wants the instatement of a higher authority that can command an operator like BAA to invest efforts in improving customer service. He believes that only better customer experience can help advance the profits that such operators generate.

Hammond cited an instance such as the one where BAA had worked towards building Terminal 5 as worthy of a reward. However, according to the transport secretary, there is still scope for improvement at Heathrow. Hammond believes that the aviation industry should work in cohesion towards projects such as Heathrow, which still has some distance to go before it attains world-class standards.

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A research conducted by PFK Hotel Consultancy Services shows that occupancy in London reduced drastically during the ash cloud crisis. An occupancy drop of 7.6% was registered in April 2010, as compared to April 2009. This steep decline is attributed to the fact that travellers were forced to revoke their plans to travel to the UK capital, owing to the unanticipated calamity.

Despite hotels charging 7.9% higher room rates, the ratio of room occupancy to the average achieved room rate dropped by 0.3% to clock £93.20.

Partner for Hotel Consultancy Services at PFK, Robert Barnard reiterated the fact that hotels in UK have had to bear the maximum brunt of the crisis. However, the overall picture in UK does not portray such a dramatic slide. Hotels outside London for instance, registered an average rise of 1.7% rise in occupancy, but a 3.6% fall in room rates.

Cities like Birmingham have displayed a rise in both occupancy and room rates, while Manchester registered a 2.3% increase in occupancy last month, compared to the same period last year. The average room rates in Manchester, however, fell by 0.7%.

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Travelocity’s latest poll with TakingTheKids.com revealed that holidays have today come to occupy a significant place in the lives of travel lovers.

The survey shows that travel enthusiasts are ready to trim down other expenditures such as eating out and purchases and deploy a range of methods to save on money and set out on that planned vacation of theirs. Sixty seven percent are willing to cut back on expenses such as entertainment and eating out, while 29 percent and 17 percent respectively are ready to forgo gifting and charitable donations to take a vacation.

Despite the recessionary trend that the economy is witnessing, travellers are looking to leverage the attractive travel deals that are coming their way, to satiate their travel desires.

Travelling at off-peak times, avoiding holidays, driving instead of flying, holidaying close to home, picking destinations based on price and taking kids out of school are some of the most popular money-saving techniques cited. A large percentage of respondents have quoted kids as a significant component of vacation planning.

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Dismissing the Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) petition against Travel Republic over an alleged violation of Atol regulations, the High Court upheld the not-guilty ruling pronounced by Westminster Magistrates’ Court last year. Lord Justice Elias’s certificate of permission, however, grants the CAA the right to take the case to the Supreme Court, a privilege that it plans to utilize.

Defending CAA’s decision to register the case, a CAA spokeswoman stated that protecting consumer interest has always been CAA’s main concern. The spokeswoman added that if the Supreme Court accepts the case, it will have to decide whether or not the passengers, in the cited case, were entitled to receive Atol protection for their entire holiday. The whole case broaches the topic of uniform protection of consumer interest for different holiday packages.

The spokeswoman also expressed CAA’s satisfaction over the Divisional Court’s decision to endorse the case as one of public importance. She reiterated that such a declaration was imperative for the case to be heard by the Supreme Court.

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Despite ruling out plans of reorganizing a joint conference of TTA/Worldchoice members in 2010, the consortium has chalked out plans to hold the overseas conference in 2011. As for this year, TTA/Worldchoice plans to hold some smaller events in the UK for its members.

The association is jotting down venues to organize the three-day overseas conference next spring. It is speculated that the event will take place in a sunny location in the Mediterranean.

The tradition of an annual overseas convention is more popular amongst members of Worldchoice than TTA. However, this seeming familiarity that Worldchoice harbours hasn’t stopped the organizers from conducting the event as a joint affair. The TTA/Worldchoice joint conference held in the UK last year was organized in a format more familiar to TTA agents.

Worldchoice has not conducted a private overseas conference for just its members since it became a part of the Triton super-consortium in 2006. Since confirming its membership at Triton, Worldchoice members have attended the three Triton conferences in Tenerife in 2006, Portugal in 2007 and Majorca in 2008.

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