Passengers can now buy British Airways tickets by just clicking on mouse, as the carrier has started the facility on www.ba.com.

Giving details to the media, the Area Commercial Manager, Amanda Moss, said that the new facility would also present the customers an option to check in and print their boarding passes online.

Moss said, "The facility to purchase the ticket online would be available till the time the check-in counter opens at the airport. So, technically speaking, if the flight is light, then a passenger may be able to get a real inexpensive ticket".

By addition new destinations, Lufthansa is continuing to expand its services. With the start of the 2007-2008 winter timetable, the global route network of the carrier will encompass 188 destinations in 79 nations. Three new routes are added: to Orlando, Lahore and Karachi.

In a bid to maintain a stable schedule throughout the year, many of the new services that were started this summer will remain operational during the forthcoming winter season.

The new timetable for the winter season is applicable from 28th October 2007 to 29th March 2008.

Tourists when scheduling a holiday often try to find unblemished list, but some travellers with courage for adventure do take that to extremes of any sense.

"The World Most Dangerous Places" is presently being updated by Adventurer and journalist Robert Young Pelton for a sixth edition.

"I wrote it for myself five years ago before the Iraq war and it's now being sold as a travel guide. I'm baffled, really. Now all my friends have been to Iraq and Afghanistan", he said.

Non-stop service between Copenhagen and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates will be commenced on October 31 by Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), the first package to Dubai from Scandinavia.

Three days a week flight will be operated – Sunday, Wednesday and Saturday-with suitable connections to and from Seattle. Dubai is one of the world's recognized emerging cities, and in recent years has established itself as a major trade and tourist destination.

"SAS passengers traveling from Seattle can connect easily to our new Dubai service at Copenhagen Airport, which was ranked as Europe's best airport in 2006 by Airport Council International", said, SAS V.P The Americans Sveneric Persson.

Do Me… London is being inducted by Do Me Mobile Limited as a helpful tourist guide that's accessible on your phone whenever and wherever you desire. 

Multimedia guides are now available to Visitors and Londoners on-the-go to more than 80 of the capital's top features simply by sending a single text message.

The attractive and sometimes shocking stories you won't find anywhere else are described by Ben Whitehead, a professional tour guide and actor, and his five alter-egos. Interactive maps, photos and other comprehensive information from London Bridge to the London Dungeon can also be available to users. It's all on your phone and it can all be customized by you, for you, whenever you wish.

For providing travellers information on how to cut their carbon emissions, an initiative has been launched by the travel industry.

The initiative, 'Reduce My Footprint' gives consumers and businesses an opportunity to offset their carbon emissions produced by car use and air travel.

The programme is led by ABTA, and is using a carbon calculator figure out the carbon footprint of an individual and they can then select the amount they want to contribute towards offsetting and various energy schemes.

London's Christmas Village, Maritime Greenwich, has a wonderful programme of festive events, exhibitions and activities running through the month of December entering into the celebrations of the New Year 2008.

With open-air ice skating, twinkling fairy lights and decorations, shopping, a big Christmas tree and a visit by Santa Claus along with his assistants, this beautiful fork of south east London will take on a unique festive atmosphere, enabling visitors to soak up the special ambiance and join in a number of events.

Festivities will start with the switching on of Greenwich Market's Christmas lights on 30th November with a huge programme of family fun which will run from 3pm to 7pm.

Hermes Airports Ltd delightfully announced that Pafos International Airport has been chosen as one among the eight new routes for Summer 2008 to be operated by the UK's low fares carrier Jet2.com, based at Leeds Bradford Airport. This is a welcome news for the customers of Jet2, who would like to get on board from Pafos International Airport. Jet2 has been awarded the third best low-fare airlines, and it would be major boost for the lovers of Jet2 to have new options for flights.

The new services between Leeds Bradford and Pafos will begin on 4th May 2008 with flights operating on Wednesdays and Sundays.

The sale of tickets for new services are now open, and passengers can book online at www.jet2.com.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra, jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman and theatre legend Peter Brook will be among the headline acts of the Hong Kong Arts Festival. The festival, which is now in its 36th year, is taking place from February 14 to March 16, 2008.

The arts festival brings renowned artists from all over the world to Hong Kong's stages. The festival also demonstrates home-grown talent across a programme of theatre, music, opera and dance. Next year, the list will include some of the finest artists from Hong Kong, China, the USA and Europe.

Theatre programme's highlights will include a series of 5 short plays by Samuel Beckett, Fragments, which are directed by his friend, Peter Brook.

Passengers are being offered a chance by Icelandair to get three nights for paying the price of two at Iceland, a three-star hotel in Reykjavik-an offer to delight its customers.

The three-night package, which includes air travel and accommodation with breakfast, are priced at £259 for an individual, with flights offered from London, Manchester or Glasgow.

From London Heathrow, the departures will take place daily, from Manchester are on Mondays and Fridays, and from Glasgow are on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

With the city hosting the largest arts festival in the UK each May and the Theatre Royal observing its 200th birthday this year, Brighton is fast emerging as the cultural hot destination of the UK.

With culture on every corner, the free-thinking city, Brighton is a hive of energy presenting people an exclusive short break location and giving them a breath of fresh air.

Treasuring boutique accommodation, historical and cultural attractions and wonderful festival events throughout the year, Brighton is presenting the very best in art, dance, theatre and music, with a colourful atmosphere to complement every holiday.

With easyJet, winter sports fans can check their skis and snowboards in on flights without paying anything to the airlines for their fare. The offer is valid until October 5. This is special offer lauched by the airlines in order to give its customers a real treat for the winter season and enjoy the ski holidays in various destinations of Europe.

The low-fares carrier has made an announcement that its schedule of flights for winter 2007 is now on sale, with a number of routes to major ski spots on offer.

Fans travelling from any of the airports in the UK to Zurich, Turin, Sofia, Munich, Milan, Ljubljana, Innsbruck, Geneva, Grenoble, Basel  can take advantage of the free ski check-in offer by submitting the promotional code SKI08 into  the third step of the booking process. By doing so, they will get the discount automatically.

Winding-up the 1,000 mile 'Cut the Carbon' march from Northern Ireland to London, a party of Christian Aid activists enter in the capital this weekend. The march has taken the climate change concern to the doorsteps of public and to businesses and MPs across the nation.

The march, constituting a team of 18 individuals from the UK and the developing world left Bangor in Northern Ireland on 14 July, arrives in central London this Monday. The march will be given a warm welcome to the capital by senior Bishops and then the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone.

A delegation from the group will go to Downing Street with shoelaces which were collected by the marchers from along their march route from the people who had swapped them for Christian Aid Cut the Carbon shoelaces to show their support for the concern.

The Edinburgh Airport Rail Link (EARL) will not proceed with its selected project, declared the SNP administration. The £650 million link plan that was expected to connect the airport to the city centre and 60 railway stations, have been devolved in support of recuperating other areas of transport.

The Edinburgh and East Coast would have been sidetracked to Glasgow rail lines through the airport via an underground tunnel by EARL.

It is hoped that an additional railway station will necessarily be built at Gogar in an offer to improve links to the airport. However, no final decision has been taken to get this project completed. In the recent news, it has been mentioned that around £30 million has already been spent on the link work and the project has been disapproved by the present authorities.

By enjoying a magical trip to the Wizards on Windermere event, at the Aquarium of the Lakes, in the beautiful Lake District, kids can enhance their witch or wizard ability this October.

The Aquarium's version of the Sorting Hat is awaiting their landing and children will find which house they are in by withdrawing a sticker. Then, they can get entry into the Aquarium's inner chamber, and be lured by wonderful creatures.

Families will be moved into a frightening forest, to be face to face with beings seeming to have amazing magical powers, like a creepy looking haired dragon, a tarantula and a witch's choice - a toad. y!

This October, two fabulously pink promotions will be run by London's iconic May Fair hotel to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The hotel has said that it will give away 20 per cent of the total revenue collected by the sale of its popular pink signature suite, the Schiaparelli during the month of October, to the Breast Cancer Care charity. A move to allow its customers to contribute for some charity cause.

The far out in beauty since its introduction, the Schiaparelli has grown into a 'must have' room for style lovers and the privileged coming to London. The Schiaparelli treasures a big Bang & Olufsen TV, extravagant bathroom with stand-only bath and individual television, and a unattached lounge space.

People coming to the top May Fair bar-readers of the Evening Standard and the London Lite voted it as the 'Best Hotel Bar' this year-will also be able to contribute toward the support to the charity while enjoying two differently exciting non-alcoholic cocktails, as 20 per cent of the cost of each Raspberry Crush and Pink Ribbon sold in the month of October will be given away to the charity.

For seasonal skiers, who will enjoy the snowy slopes this season, CarDelMar has a special offer. CarDelMar offers a 10 per cent discount on car rentals to passionate skiers as well as the individuals who are putting their first steps on the snow this season.

The promotional offer is available for everybody travelling to have an experience of the best winter.

The option of car rental offers the freedom to look into and discover remote cold destinations and unseen glories of holiday spots.

Replicating the infamous Terracotta army, over 200 model Ginger fighter men, that are presently on display at the British Museum has been created out of food and not out of stone.

To showcase the tastiest Festival of Britain, which is now in its sixth year, hundreds of ginger bread men dressed with ancient battle dress are standing beside one another in rows to erect an edible fineness of the scene.

This will be the first instance that the army has been noticed away from their home of Cheshire Bakers, Roberts where trained cooks recreated the terracotta fighter men with the help of sugar and spice.

From 29th October 2007, City Cruises plc is entering its winter season with new timetables. The Sightseeing service, which is operating between Westminster, Waterloo, Tower and Greenwich piers, will go on at regular breaks around the day: on weekdays, from 10am to 17.15  and from 10am to 18.00 at weekends. This new schedule will give many opportunities to visitors to visit their favourite places using the cruising services of the company.

From the 1st November 2007, the London Showboat, an exceptional evening of high quality entertainment and superb food will be operating three days a week: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

Offered at a price of £66 for each individual, it will include a welcome drink, a four-course dinner, half bottle of wine, trip to the river, cabaret and dancing. Boarding will be at Westminster Pier at 6.45pm with the return at 10.30pm.

Offering its customers 'à la carte mobility', the flight service, Lufthansa Private Jet has become an inflexible fixture in the strategy of Lufthansa.

"Our customers particularly appreciate the opportunity of enjoying the exclusive Lufthansa First-Class amenities on the Private Jet service, making their journey even more comfortable", said Thierry Antinori, Executive Vice President Marketing and Sales at Lufthansa Passage Airlines.

In the near future, more jets will be ready to work, including the next addition of the Falcon 2000, which provides comfortable seating to up to 10 passengers.

Field Museum becomes first U.S. museum offering visitors a way to offset the carbon footprints. In a year, the carbon emissions produced by an average individual living in the United States is more than the amount which can be absorbed by 200 trees.

Meanwhile, just one tree is needed by an average person living in Africa to absorb his or her carbon emission.

To help Americans to reduce their carbon emissions, a programme called Take 1 Step is being launched by The Field Museum on 2nd October.

Officials from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport announced on Thursday that a new carrier will be flying into the airport in the near future. The new airline will offer the region's first direct link to Amsterdam.

Starting from March, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will start its operation from DFW making the airport its 12th destination in North America. This is a welcome news for travellers who have used the services of KLM before, and would like to use it again for the route of Amsterdam.

With an Airbus A-330 with the capacity of carrying 251 passengers, KLM will provide North Texans a daily flight direct into Amsterdam's Schiphol airport.

Top political support has been acquired by a "green" car-hire scheme commenced in Auckland yesterday with the endeavour of getting private cars off the road.

"I was quite fascinated by it because it seemed to be totally counter-intuitive", said, Prime Minister Helen Clark, before unlocking one of the scheme's first five Daihatsu Sirion cars by swiping a card over the outside of the windscreen and then getting behind the wheel.

Cityhop chief executive Victoria Carter, who has formed a joint venture with national vehicle-hire company Jucy Rentals to run the new scheme, met her with a novel approach.

Residents and visitors will use shop and business forecourts as parking bays to Portishead in an offer to relieve the town's overcrowding emergency.

The development of the 'business quarter' will integrate a total of 400 parking spaces in the town. It will spot a combine of offices and retail units open on land at the corner of Newfoundland Way and Harbour Road.

The escalating uneasiness about the need of spaces in the new development, the narrowness of the roads and the level of parking being planned for new homes and businesses.

Approval to raise the money to construct a new skatepark by the city council is being honoured by skateboarders who have struggled for five years.

Norwich City Council has approved to spend £300,000 on a nationally recognised site in Eaton Park recognising the skater's struggle.

The council will involve the skaters, BMXers and inline skaters to contribute on the design of the park.

KLM, part of Air France-KLM, the largest European airline group, has selected Europe's leading online hotel reservations' company, Booking.com as its strategic partner for the distribution of hotels, giving holidaymakers an opportunity to choose from nearly 35,000 hotels in more than 9,000 destinations across the world listed on www.klm.com.

KLM's E-marketing Manager, Marcel Kuijn, said, "Millions of passengers can now benefit from a wide selection of hotels, ranging from basic budget properties through to five star luxury hotels in and around KLM's destinations, at great prices".

Kuijn added, "KLM is constantly looking for new ways to meet our customers' needs and our partnership with Booking.com enables us to take the next step towards providing a complete travel service on klm.com".

On Tuesday, French flag airline Air France, KLM of the Netherlands and Swiss announced that they would raise the prices of tickets due to rising fuel prices. The airlines would be the next one in line after Lufthansa increased the surcharge on its fuel consumption.

Both Air France and KLM, which are connected, made announcements separately that the ticket price would be raised by €1 on each leg of round-trip short and medium haul flights and by €5 on each leg of round-trip long-distance flights due to rising prices of fuel.

In a statement, Air France stated that the increase in fuel surcharges had been taken because of an increased level of oil costs. It also said that the increase in fuel surcharge would be taken back after the cost of oil stabilises durably below $75,.

Europe's leading eco-friendly spa and water park, AquaCity resort, has been short-listed for a British Guild of Travel Writers Overseas Tourism Award.

The announcement for the award will be made at the annual dinner of Guild at London's Savoy Hotel on November 11.

Even though AquaCity is located in an economically poor area of northern Slovakia, yet it is winning international recognition for using green technology to cut its carbon footprint.

People living in Glastonbury have been called to calculate their carbon footprint at the Climate Café of Somerset County Council'. The climate cafe is part of 'Rising to the Challenge' campaign of the county. The county's campaign is aimed at raising awareness about the forecasted impact of climate change in Somerset.

At the cafe on Magdalen Street, solar-powered notebooks with carbon calculators have been installed. It can be termed as a very good event organised by the café, and it would initiate a lot of awareness about the concept of carbon footprints and climate change among the local people. The concept of carbon footprints is directly related to travel and tourism also, and being the hot topics of travel industry, this would a good time to learn something about it also. Carbon coaches are on hand for giving advice on energy saving and cutting carbon dioxide emissions.

The newest Town Councillor of Glastonbury, Linda Hull,said, "The climate cafe is a great place to come and start thinking about how we can tackle climate change. It's a fun, informal and effective way to raise awareness".

Low-fares airline Easyjet will be starting a new route from East Midlands airport to Barcelona from this December. From 7th December, the airline will operate its services four times a week and the prices will be starting from £30.98 return including all the taxes.

The new route, which will be the only direct flight from East Midlands to the Spanish city, comes after the announcement of air services to the capital of Majorca, the city of Palma, which will be starting in the month of February next year from the airport.

The airline is hopeful that around 70,000 passengers will take advantage of the Barcelona low cost services over the first year.

With the action of a local set to draw travellers from the German city, Lufthansa is to start a fresh service between Newquay and Dusseldorf. A weekly service is set to begin in June next year, offering Cornish visitors the opportunity to travel to the heart of the Rhein-Ruhr area, reports the Travel Mole website.

Newquay Cornwall Airport project director Chris Cain thinks that German visitors will use the service of Lufthansa to visit the south west of England, and explore the area where author Rosamunde Pilcher was born.

"Germany is Cornwall's strongest overseas tourist market having been popularised by the German television dramatisation of the novels by Rosamunde Pilcher and we are confident this direct link will provide an even greater boost for inbound tourism from Germany", said Chris Cain.

People who like the idea of travelling but find it a difficult task need not to worry, as the first virtual tourist board in Second Life has been introduced by The Netherlands Board of Tourism & Conventions.

Named as New Holland, it is completely constructed and owned by its residents, featuring the best of Holland. With a big canal crossing the whole island, it gives the look and feel just like the city of Amsterdam. A real treat can be expected, as the idea is very innovative and has a touch of artistry in it.

The island features cobblestone streets, bridges crossing the canals, boats, bicycles, typical Dutch and modern architecture, Dutch flags and tulip fields close by a Dutch windmill-tourists can expect just the replica of Amsterdam city before their eyes when they visit this place.

'Leave your car at home' was the message to shoppers at an event for raising awareness about green travel. At an event organised by Vipre, a consultancy company, in Market Square Bromley on Saturday, workers from The Glades shopping centre in Bromley hit the streets to make people known about the alternatives to their cars and the size of their carbon footprint.

Along with pedometers, cycling and bus maps were distributed, so that one could measure the distance they are were walking at the launch of The Glades Travel Plan.

In addition, copies of The Glades Travel Plan booklet – which advises shoppers to choose a walk or ride on a walk for short journeys - were also distributed to promote the message.

Not satisfied with building the world's biggest golf course, Australia has turned up with one more wacky plan to attract visitors down-under. In a recent survey by a travel magazine, Sydney has been chosen as the preferred city, and no wonder that more visitors attraction could further boost the interest of tourists and visitors in Australian tours. Seemingly, Neighbours' sun drenched streets have been drawing fans from the UK so successfully that Tourism Australia is willing to film a Japanese Soap Opera in Australia, in a bit to lure Japanese fans.

The establishment now has one renowned Japanese actor signed up for the plan and is expecting to get the cameras reeling in the coming months. This could be a real enjoying item for the visitors.

The new HomeAway Rent with Confidence Guarantee allows holidaymakers booking independent holiday homes straight from proprietors on Holiday-Rentals.co.uk to make bookings with increased reliance and assurance.

With the new feature, Holiday-Rentals.co.uk establishes a new industry standard by emerging as UK's first holiday rentals website to provide its clients with the protection against amounts paid to advertisers on the site, without any additional cost.

At present, Holiday-Rentals.co.uk lists over 40,000 properties acroos the world and is the largest and most reliable holiday rentals website in the UK>

A latest survey has shown that almost a third of Britons would be pleased to pay green taxes on their air travel if they knew that the payments thus collected would be utilised for the purpose of carbon offsetting. It is noticeable here that tourists are worried about the legitimacy of these taxes; however, if it can ensured, many more people could forward in favour of these taxes.

However, the survey, which was conducted by consultancy Hyder Consulting, has also noticed that one in six of those surveyed would not end travelling abroad in favour of UK breaks in a bid to cut their carbon footprint.

Regardless of his, one fifth of the respondents said that they have already made an attempt-or will make an effort in the future-to have more breaks in the UK. Tourists are taking seriously about the concept of taking breaks within UK itself, which could bring a major boost to UK holidays and the experience that it has on holidaymakers due to the improvements efforts that would be put in tourist industry within UK.

A new funding £20m has been released by the Government, which will go towards research in the UK for developing new vehicles with low carbon emissions that could be rolled on the road within the next 5 to 7 years.

Ian Pearson, Science and Innovation Minister said that the main aim of the new funds was to lead by developing new vehicle technologies at a faster pace. Of course, green-conscious tourists are also looking forward to some means that give them more opportunity of travel but without damaging the environment at the present pace-this would be welcome news for tourism lovers.

Pearson said, "Through our investment in UK-based research and development we want to accelerate the introduction of low carbon vehicles, ahead of what would be achieved by market forces alone".

In an effort to help local entertainers, artists and musicians, Bristol International Airport is trying for individuals to give performance in front of a big number of travellers that pass through the airport's terminal every day. These performances have multiple effects-entertain the passengers; give opportunities to the performers; and at the same time, increase the popularity of Bristol airport and encourage the passengers to travel through their terminals.

The Bristol International Airport thinks that it will provide a platform for artists to demonstrate their expertise which will make their name known in front of a large number of people, but also emphasize the first class latest entertainment that the South West of England has to offer.

"For local groups, individuals or organisations we can offer the chance to get in front of thousands of passengers every day and for customer's using Bristol International it will provide an alternative travel experience", said Jacqui Mills, of Bristol International Airport.

To occur simultaneously with the beginning of the South Somerset Food Festival, the West Country cycling holiday specialists, Carefree Cycling Tours, invites food-loving cyclists to come along with them on a two-day tour.

This pleasing weekend begins at the Boat & Anchor pub, Huntworth  at 10am. Riders can bring their personal bikes or can also take one from the fleet of Carefree.

The entire ride -19 miles on the start day, and 17 miles on the next day - are completely-guided. At the end of each day, every cyclist is driven back to the start point.

Qantas Airways and its famous low-cost carrier Jetstar have started a programme that will allow the travellers to offset the CO2 emissions caused by their flights. The airline said that the programme allows passengers to assess the per-passenger carbon emissions of their flights and purchase CO2 credits that would be directed towards a range of environmental schemes. For instance, around 1.4 tons of greenhouse gases are generated by a flight from Australia to Los Angeles, which can be netralised by paying $14.50 per flight.

The collected money would be utilised for government-approved CO2 neutralization programmes.

The air travel industry accounts for nearly 2 per cent of the world's CO emissions and pressure from environmental supporters is continuously increasing.