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The gunfire might still be ringing but it seems Libya’s tour operators are hopeful that tourists will already be considering the war-torn country as a holiday destination. One company, Sherwes Travel, is advertising a three-day, €295 tour of ‘post-war Libya’ that features visits to sites in Tripoli and to the local Roman ruins. ‘On a [...]
Many of us have returned from a holiday with an item of clothing or accessory we’d like people to think rather more expensive than it was. But holidaymakers have been urged to avoid buying counterfeit goods abroad in a bid to crack down on serious organised crime. Gangs use the trade in fake goods to [...]
UK-based Thomson Airways is getting in on the alternative fuels trend. It became the first UK airline to fly passengers using biofuel Thursday with a flight from Birmingham, England to Arrecife in the Canary Islands. The trip was made by 232 passengers on a Boeing 757-200. As Huffington Post Travel previously reported, the use of alternative [...]
Aviation is responsible for an estimated 2 percent of human-generated carbon dioxide emissions. The industry’s rapid growth is doing nothing to decrease that figure, but airlines are nonetheless working to scale back their emissions. One tactic that’s been gaining traction: biofuels. In June, KLM announced that it would begin operating more than 200 flights using biofuel [...]