The Rio Hotel in the ever-popular Sin City has defended itself amid allegations that their ATMs are stealing valuable information from customers using the machines. All this came about during a conference for DefCon members who hold one of the biggest computer hacker conventions in the world and it was happening at the very same [...]

For years the Barcelona to Madrid air route and vice versa has been one of the world’s busiest commuters trips. However, now there is some competition coming from an unlikely source on the ground in the form of a train. The new high-speed AVE train service that travels between the two Spanish cities is becoming [...]

Nine armed pirates boarded a boat and tied 20 western passengers up in a raid that took place on the Ucayali River in the Peruvian Amazon. There were two policemen onboard that were apparently subdued after a similar attack just over a week earlier. The gunmen boarded the boat at around 07:00 Tuesday morning in [...]

At West Virginia University’s (WVU) Morgantown campus there is a new and exciting way to travel around town. They have launched a kind of car share/car hire programme where students and faculty can rent hybrid cars by the hour if they want for simple trips around town. The We Car Program was launched on Wednesday [...]

The Travel & Tourism Council (TTC) has slammed the UK government for their increase in air passenger duty stating that it could slow down the economy in developing countries that rely on tourism. At a conference earlier this week the president of the TTC, Jean-Claude Baumgarten said that the UK were “short sighted” for introducing [...]

An amazing family from Ohio in the US have laid claim to a staggering feat when they went to the zoo last weekend, but they also went to the zoo the weekend before that and before that. This has been happening now for the past 52 weeks for the Taviano family. The family of five, [...]

A British Airways (BA) jet that landed in Spain earlier this week sparked panic when there were reports of fumes filling the cabin. The flight originated at London’s Heathrow airport and was due to make a return journey. The Boeing 757 deployed its emergency chutes after landing at Barcelona Airport and all 176 passengers and [...]

The search for a missing woman who was on a cruise ship in Alaskan waters has turned up a body thought to be that of the Washington State lady on Monday afternoon. The missing lady was on the Holland American cruise liner Zaandam and was believed to have gone overboard between Douglas Island and the [...]

Starting from October the Mobil Travel Guide award will be no longer, after a licensing agreement transfers the brand over to Forbes Media. Mobil has been awarding four and five star ratings to the hospitality industry since 1958. They cover hotels, spas and restaurants and the next edition due out in November will be the [...]

The giant car hire supplier Avis Budget Group Inc. have reported their sixth quarter loss in the past seven periods, but said that their volumes are starting to stabilise. “While we continued to face sharply reduced demand for vehicle rentals in the second quarter, rental volumes did stabilise, and the actions we took to keep [...]