Trainline shares rise as bookings recover strongly after lockdown easing

Trainline on track for recovery: Ticket bookings bounce back strongly after lockdown easing – but sales are still only half pre-pandemic levels UK net ticket sales of £334m in quarter to end of May, half of £481m in Q1 2019 At the end of May, UK sales were at around 70% of the levels of 2019 … Read more

Travel firm On the Beach STOPS taking holiday bookings over ‘uncertainty’

An EU ban on visitors from outside the bloc could see thousands of Britons due to jet to Portugal on Monday being turned away at the airport, it was revealed today. Diplomatic wrangling between Lisbon and Brussels means that the Portuguese government is still to reverse its ban on non-essential travel from non-EU states despite Britain … Read more

Travel firm On the Beach STOPS taking holiday bookings over ‘uncertainty’

One of Britain’s top online travel agents today paused all bookings for holidays until August 31 amid ‘uncertainty’ that many popular destinations will be ‘green’ this summer.  On the Beach chief executive Simon Cooper said that his firm had ‘no interest in selling holidays that are unlikely to happen’ and claimed sales of foreign breaks … Read more

Britons are still banking on Staycation Summer! Bookings for UK holiday lets are up 136% on 2019

Staycation bookings have risen by 136 per cent for next month compared to the same time before the pandemic, an expert has revealed. Matt Fox, CEO and Founder of Rest Easy Group, said there was a ‘stark increase’ in demand for cottages in Cornwall and Devon for the May bank holiday weekend this year compared … Read more

Britons are still banking on Staycation Summer! Bookings for UK holiday lets are up 136% on 2019

Staycation bookings have risen by 136 per cent for next month compared to the same time before the pandemic, an expert has revealed. Matt Fox, CEO and Founder of Rest Easy Group, said there was a ‘stark increase’ in demand for cottages in Cornwall and Devon for the May bank holiday weekend this year compared … Read more

Parents slam outdoor adventure firm Go Ape for cancelling their bookings after it reopened TOO EARLY

Parents slam outdoor adventure firm Go Ape for cancelling their bookings after it reopened TOO EARLY Go Ape reopened on March 29 with other outdoor sports facilities such as golf The treetop climb organisation closed again on Wednesday after taking advice Furious parents criticised the decision as children will be back to school soon  By … Read more

Parents slam outdoor adventure firm Go Ape for cancelling their bookings after it reopened TOO EARLY

Parents slam outdoor adventure firm Go Ape for cancelling their bookings after it reopened TOO EARLY Go Ape reopened on March 29 with other outdoor sports facilities such as golf The treetop climb organisation closed again on Wednesday after taking advice Furious parents criticised the decision as children will be back to school soon  By … Read more

Staycation boom for holiday park owner Away Resorts: Bookings soar 47%

Staycation boom boosts holiday park owner Away Resorts as bookings soar 47% By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:53 BST, 5 April 2021 | Updated: 21:54 BST, 5 April 2021 In demand: Away Resorts’s Isle of Whitecliff Bay Holiday Park on the Isle of Wight Holiday park owner Away Resorts saw a 47 … Read more

Good luck getting a table! Pubs and restaurants are ‘absolutely chocker’ with bookings next month

Pubs and restaurants have received tens of thousands of bookings ahead of the April reopening, leaving customers unable to get a table for weeks. Fuller’s, (pictured in London) which has 400 pubs, said: ‘We are certainly taking a high level of bookings – people clearly can’t wait to get back to the pub, which is … Read more

Good luck getting a table! Pubs and restaurants are ‘absolutely chocker’ with bookings next month

Pubs and restaurants have received tens of thousands of bookings ahead of the April reopening, leaving customers unable to get a table for weeks. Fuller’s, (pictured in London) which has 400 pubs, said: ‘We are certainly taking a high level of bookings – people clearly can’t wait to get back to the pub, which is … Read more