Information for customers travelling to Turkey

03 June 2013
ABTA statement on the current situation in Turkey.
“Turkey is a popular destination for Brits attracting around 1.3M holidaymakers every year with July and August the most popular times to visit. The vast majority of tourist resorts are in coastal areas, hundreds of miles away from the cities where the large protests are taking place, so most people travelling to Turkey shouldn't be affected by the demonstrations. Foreign Office advice says that travellers to Istanbul should avoid central areas where the demonstrations are happening and abide by the instructions of local authorities.”

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Dubai, Palm Jumeirah

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Indian Ocean, Maldives

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Stockholm, the Ice Hotel & The Northern Lights

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Solve The Carry-On Minefield

Carry-on luggage is becoming an issue. One item, two items … what constitutes an item, size, weight… How do you solve this (increasingly) thorny issue?
Simple – always carry a cheap, simple plain white pillowcase and some string. Really! I have seen this in action – during my chauffering days, many moons ago, I took a client to Heathrow. When we arrived at the terminal, he got out and fiddled around in the boot of the car. “Problem?” I asked. “Not with you, with the airline” came the reply. “Carry on restrictions”
The client whipped out an old, clean, white pillowcase and pushed his laptop and (expensive) briefcase into the pillowcase and tied the whole lot up with twine. “Hey, Presto!” he said, “Only one carry-on”
Being flimsy, a pillowcase fits into any size measuring device, does not add to the weight and can be easily re-packed, once past all the checks.
Now, all we needed was a long pole to tie the pillowcase on to!

One in every eight package holidays booked is now a cruise

One in every eight package holidays booked is now a cruise

UK cruise passenger numbers increased 5% and, with sales of Ultra

Luxury cruises rising 8%, total cruise sales spending topped £2.4bn

The average price paid rose less than 1% in 2011

More than four in every 10 cruises were bought for less than £1,000

Four out of every ten passengers were on their first-ever cruise

About 100,000 more UK passengers chose to start their cruise at

a UK port but higher flight costs saw a drop in flycruise numbers

Western Europe, Atlantic Islands, Norway and the Mediterranean

were the big cruise destination winners in 2011

An emerging trend for short cruises from UK ports meant that

nearly half of all cruises booked were of no more than seven nights

A second successive year of double digit growth in overseas and

UK passengers making a cruise visit at UK ports

Eight in ten passengers book cruises through travel agents