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Finishing off a bottle of water in a hurry, removing a laptop and a transparent toiletry bag and carefully arranging them in separate bins: this is the daily routine for business travellers faced with more or less chaotic airport checks. But if recent reports are anything to go by, the scene should soon be disappearing from British territory...

Already in use since May to Leeds (2 hours from London), 65 Azuma trains - built by the Japanese group Hitachi - will be running within a year on the network in the north-east of England operated by the state-owned London North Eastern Railway. In addition to an increase in capacity of around 100 seats per train...

The big day is approaching: next September, Wales will be making its debut on the MICE market with the inauguration of the International Conference Centre (ICC) Wales. Located in Newport, just twenty minutes from Cardiff. Presented in Frankfurt at IMEX, the new infrastructure should - at last - position Wales as a major player in the MICE...

Thanks to the combination of the Eurostar and Virgin Trains rail networks, organisers can now book multi-stop journeys from continental Europe to the heart of Great Britain on a single platform. The aim is to make it easier for cities such as Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham, which are currently overshadowed by London in this market, to become more accessible. For...

Italian and British business travellers are not in the same boat: while the former have benefited from an upmarket rail offer following the opening up of the market to competition, the latter are not doing so well. The report published on 29 January by Transport Focus condemns a historically low satisfaction rate....

While airlines, alliances and airports regularly review the layout of their lounges, Manchester airport is thinking bigger. The UK hub has just unveiled its new project, dubbed PremiAir: a fourth, private terminal designed to offer travellers a "Jet Privé experience" from mid-2019. [caption id="attachment_82621" align="aligncenter" width="700"]...

The journey from Glasgow airport to the city centre takes just 15 minutes, more than it takes Jack the taxi to sum up his vision of France-Scotland relations: "It was here, in 2002, that Zidane scored the finest goal of his career, a left-footed volley that has become famous as 'la volée...

Identity card Time difference: + 1 hour. Currency: Pound Sterling (GPB). 1 euro = 0.88 GPB (June 2018). Area code: + 44 (United Kingdom); 141 (Glasgow). Information peoplemakeglasgow.com Getting there EasyJet flies to Glasgow from Paris Charles-de-Gaulle once a day. On weekdays, departure from Paris is at 2pm...

Business travellers will soon have a new option for their business trips to Scotland. Yotel has announced that it will open a new hotel in Glasgow in November 2019. The hotel will offer 256 rooms, or "cabins" because of their small size, as the chain calls them. "Our customers stay an average of five hours in a...

Britain's planned withdrawal from the European Union in March 2019 - two years after it officially began the process of leaving the EU - could have led to a slowdown in passenger numbers on air routes between France and the UK. On the contrary, according to...

Virgin Hotels, the luxury lifestyle hotel from the group founded by Richard Branson, is to take its first steps outside the United States in Edinburgh. Expected to open in 2020, just off the Royal Mile in the heart of the Unesco-listed Old Town, the 225-bedroom and suite hotel will be housed in the India Buildings, one of the city's most prestigious...

Many business travellers flying from Turkey and Tunisia to UK airports have been waiting for this since March. At the time, the United States and the UK decided to ban laptops and tablets in the cabin on departure from airports where the authorities felt there were insufficient security guarantees...

According to UK national statistics, the UK welcomed 37.61 million visitors with at least one overnight stay last year, an increase of 4.13% on the previous year. London alone accounted for 50.7% of market share, confirming its position as Europe's leader with 19.06 million tourists...

While easyJet has just announced on 14 July the launch of a European subsidiary in Austria in anticipation of Brexit, it seems that all the British airlines have a 'plan B' or are more or less safe from the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the single European market. The simplest case is that of Ryanair. The airline...

A latecomer to the international art scene, the British capital is now one of the world's leading centres for contemporary art, and has only been in existence for twelve years: the Frieze Art Fair, held every October around Regent's Park, attracts almost 70,000 visitors and is already competing with the...