Who he you may well ask.Dr Zahi Hawass has headed up the Supreme Council Of Antiquities in Egypt for the last six years. As such he is responsible for the archaeological excavations throughout the country, it’s musuems and those travelling exhibitions that go around the world.With his trademark cowboy hat he has become quite a [...]

I have no idea when the width of airline seats was last determined but it doesn’t seem to have taken account of the fact that people are larger these days. Just as people have grown taller through a better diet, people’s girth has increased though not necessarily due to diet. Certain illnesses cause weight to [...]

Anyone travelling to the US in the next two months should be aware that there are two different I-94 forms in existence and you need to complete the “right” one.The I-94 form is a green form that all UK and Irish citizens (and all EU non visa holders) who do not have a visa need [...]

With the World Travel Market now over for another year, residents can get back to normal for a while. The buses, the DLR and the restaurants will be returned to them. And they will probably enjoy it. But tourism is an integral way of life for the economies both local and national throughout the world.If [...]

You may have never heard of the World Travel Market,(WTM) ,but this week it has featured on BBC Breakfast, Metro, The Times and a host of other media Why? Because tourism ministers from around the world were in London and some of them have been held in massive queues as almost 50,000 people a day [...]

The title makes it sound as though I have sailed on her many times so let me straightaway say I have never even been on her and now, I never will. A regret. Like not having flown on Concorde. Both I wish I had done but as with many others, I feel that this ship [...]

The Guardian ran a story yesterday that was widely picked up by press around the world.Although there seems no confirmation on the website of the new president, Mohammed Nasheen, The Guardian says that because of climate change, the islanders will start looking for land elsewhere that they can move to if climate change causes their [...]

Books fulfil a real need to the traveller and holidaymaker. Easy to carry, they occupy some of the boring bits of the journey and, when you get to your destination be it a hotel room, a campsite or your own home, they join the pile for re-reading or passing to a charity shop.Some hotels, in [...]

I’m quite fond of books. True, I buy more than I read but my excuse is that I save them up to take with me when I go on holiday. In a week I can go through 3 or 4 and there is something appealing about sitting in the sun with a book in one [...]

You may remember that over the last few months we have been asking you to vote for the companies you believed provide the best holidays, flights and so on. All of the votes have been counted and analysed and, altogether, tens of thousands of you voted using the links from either us or Sky Travel, [...]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the National Trust is a “good thing” Maybe it was but I am not sure anymore.Showing a visitor around, I was going to take them to see some of the views from the highest points. It happened the land was owned by the National Trust and although I [...]

When you see a press report about Ryanair, it usually makes good reading. Their Chief Executive, Michael O’Leary, is not known for bland language; some is more colourful than Gordon Ramsay’s so the announcement of his third quarter accounts is uasually not as boring as some that travel companies issue. Ryanair calls for the removal [...]

Cast you minds back. To 6 months ago. When Heathrow’s Terminal 5 opened and there were all those problems. Seems a long time ago since then we have reported that. Like all new openings, there were teething problems and those may have been worse than elsewhere or may have been overblown by the media. Now [...]

Not subscribing to “Post Medieval Archaeology,” it has taken me a little while to catch up with story of the excavations on Robinson Crusoe Island off the coast of Chile. It was the BBC website and The Times that alerted me to a story that archaeologists led by David Caldwell from National Museums Scotland had [...]