Recent reports have sown that 8 tourists were just recently shot by a rogue policeman, who hijacked a bus and held the people on it hostage. The rogue cop was later killed after other police were able to storm the bus.
A spokesman for the Foreign Office said that it had offered consular assistance. The Philippines [...]

Apparently tourists that were staying at a luxury hotel in Rio de Janeiro were taken hostage by an armed gang involved in a shoot out with policemen. Reports show that ten armed members of one of Rio de Janerio’s most notorious drug gangs, who were on the run from a police raid, entered an InterContinental [...]

The well known French hospitality group Accor has just recently announced plans to double the number of hotels in its global portfolio to 7,000. This is going to be done over the course of the next seven years. The expansion itself is said to be worth some €1.4 billion. It is set to target mostly [...]

Reports now show that two British climbers were recently trapped on an Italian Alpine ledge in a freezing storm for more than 24 hours. They were later airlifted out of there by helicopter. However, the helicopter never would have known were to find them had it not been for the text message that the British [...]

It’s a story that too many people have heard this year. Another tour operator has collapsed and left some 1,200 British holidaymakers stranded abroad. This time the tour operator that went under was the Birmingham-based Sun4U.
This company, which specialized in Spain and Mallorca holidays, announced on its website that, as of Thursday night, it had [...]

According to reports, passengers’ fears over a potential strike by Spanish air traffic controllers have been lifted. This temporary relief came after an announcement made by unions.
Apparently Spanish air traffic controllers voted by an overwhelming majority to take strikes over the government changes to their working conditions. This vote took place just earlier this month. [...]