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Auction Houses Reunite Travelers With Their Lost Luggage

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
After three months, at least.

According to the Air Transport Users Council, around 85% of airport luggage is immediately claimed by their rightful owners in under 48 hours. In fact, figures point that nearly £30m worth of luggage is classified as “lost” in Europe annually, alarming airport authorities to seek ways to reunite the bags with their masters. Thus, auctions houses like Greasby’s took it upon themselves to house their precious luggage for potential auctioning, to give owners a chance to track their things themselves. Couldn’t hurt, right?

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European tourists give US the wide berth

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Traveling to the US is being seen as a hassle by a large number of tourists from Europe and the US is steadily losing European tourists to other destinations. Issues regarding visa, fingerprinting, and a daunting immigration procedure have led to a record fall in tourists from across the pond into the US.

“There’s a perception out there that it’s tough to get into the United States at the moment. So people tend to look at what are the other options. There are plenty of attractive destinations around the world,” said Geoffrey Lipman, assistant secretary general of the United Nation’s World Tourism Organization, based in Madrid, Spain.

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British government issues travel warning

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has issued a notice advising against travel to various parts of India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan unless very essential. The notice comes in the wake of the tense situation prevalent in these areas due to possible strikes by terrorists.

Areas in India deemed unsafe for travel include the Kashmir valley and parts of North East India like Manipur, Tripura, and Assam. India has had to suffer terrorist attacks in major metro cities like Mumbai and Delhi. Read more. 

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British authorities renew security warnings

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

The British government has issued fresh warnings to their citizens regarding travel to Southern Philippines. The ASEAN summit is to be held in Cebu City. The British advisory has singled out the provinces of Cebu and Mindanao as being most likely targets of terrorists and criminals who may want to kidnap foreign nationals. Other places that tourists should ideally stay away include the Sulu archipelago where the police and military are trying to quell insurgencies.

On the basis of reports that it has received, the British government believes that the entire country of Philippines is at present unsafe for travel. Terrorist groups can launch an attack anywhere in the country and in doing so they will not discriminate between locals and foreigners.

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Bulgarians on the move

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

The new year will see Bulgarians travel freely to any of the EU member countries using only their ID cards. The information in the cards will be connected to an electronic database that will store information such as date of birth, name, photograph, etc. The new ID cards that will contain this information in an electronic format will be issued from June 28 2009. The databases will be in place by October 31 2007.

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