Travel restrictions for business travellers
GREEN TO GO On Monday 17 May the UK government introduced a traffic light system to allow for the resumption of non-essential travel and overnight stays away from your own residence within England. In this blog we highlight some of the current challenges associated with travelling overseas and seek to demystify the Covid related requirements. […]
How to exercise and eat healthily when travelling for business
Working from home has on the whole offered a better work-life balance for the majority of business travellers. Being able to go out for a run during a lunch break, or regaining the time from commuting to the office is time well spent. The lockdown has also reintroduced cooking more healthy foods at home, rather […]
Return to Travel – The Event
Following on from our last post, Return to Travel – Global Travel Taskforce Report Released, we are eagerly awaiting the final detail of the proposed traffic light scheme along with which countries will fall into the respective bandings. In recent days the Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP and Transport Secretary, has confirmed that the Covid […]
Return to Travel – Global Travel Taskforce Report Released
In response to the Global Travel Taskforce Report, the government has provided guidance in respect of re-opening non-essential international travel on or after 17 May. To facilitate the return a traffic-light system will be introduced. Countries will be placed in green, amber and red categories depending on a range of factors including the rate of […]
Meon Valley Travel Voted As Top Travel Agency
We are delighted to announce that our Holidays division scooped the Best Travel Agency Award in the South East at the respected TTG Top 50 Awards last week (19 March 2021). Our Managing Director, James Beagrie, has gone on record to say: “To receive this prestigious award is quite a feat especially as over 400 […]
Speak to a Human
In today’s day and age, it is often thought that businesses should streamline every element of their service. The travel booking process has wherever possible tried to do this for the sake of efficiency and to offer control for the client to book whatever they need. COVID-19 has changed the travel booking market. Real innovation, […]
Sustainability – A Once In A Generation Opportunity?
Let’s face it 2020 was a pretty miserable year all round. The only people who really seemed to benefit were those with shares in Amazon! The travel sector has been particularly hard hit, with international flights practically ground to a standstill. It would be great to say that the industry is going to rebound with […]
The Evolving Requirements to Travel During the Pandemic
The mass roll-out of vaccines in the UK, allied to mass testing across the Continent has led to increased confidence within the travel industry that international travel will rebound sometime later this year. From a leisure perspective, Tui has already received 2.8 million bookings for 2021 summer holidays with more than half coming from the […]
Visiting Europe from 1 January 2021
Government Advice can be found here: Visiting Europe from 1 January 2021 You may need to do extra things before you travel to the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein, such as: check your passport, get travel insurance that covers your healthcare and check you have the right driving documents. There are more things to do […]
Understanding A RFP For Travel Management Services
If you are looking to start the procurement process for finding a travel management company, you may want to create a RFP (request for proposal). Understanding what is an RFP, what questions to ask in the RPF and whether you even need to complete one will be all important steps in your journey. What […]
