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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.
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Edinburgh hands residents the keys to a £2m Visitor Levy windfall

By Ana Ives · May 15, 2026
 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.
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Brussels moves to make cross-border rail travel a one-ticket affair for business travellers

By Ana Ives · May 15, 2026
 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.
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English Mayors to gain overnight stay tax powers as government commits to visitor levy

By Ana Ives · May 15, 2026
 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.
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CAA clears runway for Arora’s rival Heathrow expansion plan

By Ana Ives · May 15, 2026
 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.
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E-gate access widens to younger children at UK airports in time for summer peak

By Ana Ives · May 14, 2026
 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.
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Heathrow and Gatwick lead airport revolt against ministers’ flight cancellation plans

By Ana Ives · May 12, 2026
 British Airways' premium cabin customers are first in the firing line for fare rises as parent group IAG scrambles to claw back a €2bn (£1.7bn) jump in its fuel bill sparked by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
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BA targets business class flyers as Hormuz closure drives fuel bill to €9bn

By Ana Ives · May 8, 2026
 Uber One is staging its boldest play yet for the loyalty of Britain's frequent travellers, lifting the velvet rope on a private clifftop retreat in Mykonos reserved exclusively for its highest-spending UK members.
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Uber One unlocks private Mykonos hideaway for Britain’s most prolific travellers

By Ana Ives · May 7, 2026
 British business travellers flying to Spain this summer face mounting disruption risks, with industry analysts warning that Palma, Alicante and Málaga could emerge as the principal flashpoints for delayed and cancelled departures during the May half-term and early summer peak.
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Palma, Alicante and Málaga flagged as summer’s biggest pressure points for UK travellers to Spain

By Ana Ives · May 6, 2026
 Hilton has abandoned plans to operate what was set to be the United Kingdom’s largest Hampton by Hilton, just weeks before the doors of the Manchester city-centre tower were due to open to guests.
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Hilton walks away from UK’s largest Hampton on the eve of opening in Manchester

By Ana Ives · May 6, 2026
 Britain’s business travellers are facing a summer of cancelled flights, consolidated routes and sharply higher fares after Goldman Sachs warned that the United Kingdom is the country most exposed to a deepening jet fuel crisis triggered by the Iran war.
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Britain ‘most exposed’ to jet fuel crisis as airline rationing looms

By Ana Ives · May 6, 2026
 Whitehall has thrown nearly £50 million behind Britain’s drone and flying taxi ambitions, in a move ministers say will accelerate commercial eVTOL operations from 2028 and rein in the operators behind a growing tide of “faceless” rogue flights.
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Whitehall pledges £50m to fast-track flying taxis and clamp down on rogue drones

By Ana Ives · May 6, 2026