Before I go into why “yes” is so important, let me clarify that there are instances when the best thing you can say is a “no”. This post does not…
Middle East: Online bookings set to soar
May 4 (TravelAndy): Online travel booking will climb to as much as 36 per cent of the total travel bookings made in the Middle East by 2017, suggests a research conducted by…
Australia: Jetstar popularity growing
May 2 (TravelAndy): Low-cost airline Jetstar has been consistently attracting more passengers, reports quoting Qantas said. Jetstar is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qantas, Australia's flag carrier airline. Till March, Jetstar's…
SpiceJet extends sale, adds seats
May 1 (TravelAndy): India-based budget airline SpiceJet has extended the sale of it's INR999 discounted tickets till May 3 and added one lakh more seats to the 1.5 lakh already…
Maui beaches closed after ‘shark attack’
April 30 (TravelAndy): Authorities have cleared and closed the waters in south Maui after a 65-year-old woman was found dead off the shore, said reports. The woman had wounds on…
SpiceJet offers fares from INR999
April 28 (Travelandy): India-based airline SpiceJet is offering fares from INR999 for passengers travelling without check-in luggage. According to a statement by the airline, 150,000 seats are on sale. This…
Japan: Land emerges from sea
Rausu in northern Japan April 28 (TravelAndy): At a time when the world is losing land to the advancing the seas because of the Greenhouse effect and other reasons, Japan…
What the Himalayan quake taught me
Do not go gentle into that good night — Dylan Thomas I was running up the stairs to the first floor of our house when it struck. I didn’t notice it…
Elvis Presley planes to stay at Graceland
A poster of the Presley-starrer Jailhouse Rock April 27 (TravelAndy): Rock and roll icon Elvis Presley's two airplanes — Lisa Marie and Hound Dog II — will remain at Graceland…
Quake hits Nepal tourism
Sunday Times, Delhi edition, April 26, 2015 April 26 (TravelAndy): The tourism industry is already beginning to feel the impact of Saturday's earthquake in the Himalayas that devastated large parts…
Travel concierge app raises $1.8m
April 25 (TravelAndy): Mobile application Headout has raised USD1.8 million in seed funding to work out its expansion plans, said Tech Crunch. Headout is a travel app that acts as…
MakeMyTrip acquires Mygola
April 23 (TravelAndy): Online travel agency MakeMyTrip has acquired "certain assets" of travel start-up Mygola.com. A statement released by the acquiring company said the entire team of Mygola will now…