Lufthansa Group has refreshed its climate protection portfolio with a sharper tilt towards technology-led carbon removal, including its first backing of direct air carbon capture and storage (DACCS), a move that signals where Europe’s largest network carrier sees the next decade of corporate aviation decarbonisation heading.
As ITB China throws open the doors of the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Centre tomorrow, the world’s meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) sector is staring down a familiar but sharpening adversary: cost.
Support for almost every under‑represented group of business traveller has gone backwards in the past year, with LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and younger employees among those losing the most ground, according to fresh research unveiled today by Business Travel Show Europe.
The chancellor's "Great British Summer Saving Scheme" hands hospitality, attractions and bleisure travellers a short, sharp boost, and gives company-car drivers their biggest mileage uplift in years.
British companies are pouring money back into the road, the rails and the skies at a pace matched by almost no other major economy.
Edinburgh has fired the starting gun on the most ambitious experiment in tourism-tax democracy yet seen in the United Kingdom, with councillors agreeing this week to hand £2 million of Visitor Levy income directly to residents to spend on their own neighbourhoods.
The European Commission has unveiled a sweeping package of proposals designed to make it easier, and considerably less stressful, for business travellers to book complex cross-border rail journeys involving multiple operators, while sharpening consumer protection when connections go wrong.
Ministers have confirmed they will press ahead with controversial plans to allow the mayors of England's largest city-regions to charge a tax on overnight stays, in a move that has reignited fury across the business travel and hospitality industries.
The Civil Aviation Authority has set out four potential operating models for a third runway at the UK's largest airport, including the alternative £25 billion scheme proposed by hotel and property billionaire Surinder Arora.
Business travellers facing the annual scrum of the school holidays should see border queues move a little more briskly this summer, after the Home Office confirmed that children aged eight and nine will be permitted to use the UK's e-gates from 8 July.
Britain's two busiest airports have urged the government to abandon proposals that would let airlines scrap flights without notice, warning the move risks plunging the summer holidays of millions of business and leisure travellers into chaos.