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UK Should Relax Visa Rules for Chinese Visitors or Lose Out to Europe

Alison Couper | Posted 19.04.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: Tourism, Hotels, Visa, Hotel Prices, Chinese, Tourists, Hoildays, Vacations, UK Travel, UK Politics News
Alison Couper

Visitors from China are also big spenders when they are here. Typically Chinese visitors will spend in the region of £1,600 while in the UK - nearly three times the average tourist spend, according to Visit Britain.

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Photobombing Husky Redux: Hairy Hound Makes Retrospective Appearances At Royal Wedding & 1966 World Cup (PICTURES)

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 04.12.2012 | UK Comedy
Read More: Photobombs, Animal Photobombs, Prince William Kate Middleton, Funny Pictures, Felix Baumgartner, Animalol, Stingray, Pics & Giggles, Mo Farah, Royal Wedding, UK Comedy News, UK Comedy, Slideexpand, Barack Obama, Comedy, Tourists, UK Comedy News

Well, our somewhat crazed looking photobombing husky went viral so we thought we'd give him another shot at hogging the limelight. So here he is, ...

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Photobombing Husky Steals The Show

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 02.02.2013 | UK Comedy
Read More: Photobombs, Animal Photobombs, Funny Pictures, Animalol, Stingray, Pics & Giggles, Funny Animals, UK Comedy, Slideexpand, Comedy, Tourists, UK Comedy News

UPDATE: Photobombing Husky Redux, Hairy Hound Makes Retrospective Appearances At Royal Wedding & 1966 World Cup...

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Brrrr! Winter Is Coming, But Did We Really Learn Anything From the Summer?

Alfie Evers | Posted 11.12.2012 | UK Comedy
Read More: Olympics, Summer, Football, Christmas, Autumn, Summer of Sport, Winter, Jack Frost, Bob Dylan, Cycling, Olivia Newton-John, Coats, Tourists, UK Comedy News
Alfie Evers

Summer is over. My big brown winter coat twinkles at me. But, I ignore his advances. As I explain to him, Jack Frost isn't exactly banging on my windows shouting obscenities. I have not yet walked outside and quivered the words "Cor blimey guvnor". No doubt I will, but not yet my big brown friend. You stay where you are. Oh, you heard me. Back to the coat hook. Off you go.

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Stingray Photobomb Gives Tourists A Fright (PICTURES)

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 27.11.2012 | UK
Read More: Photobombs, Animal Photobombs, Funny Pictures, Animalol, Stingray, Pics & Giggles, Funny Animals, UK Comedy, Slideexpand, Comedy, Tourists, UK News

Lurching out of the ocean like something out of a horror film, we reckon this publicity-seeking stingray has pulled off the mother of all photobombs. ...

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The Winner Is...

Lloyd Paige | Posted 02.08.2012 | UK Sport
Read More: London 2012, Games, Business, London, Olympics, Revenue, Tourists, 2012 London Olympic Games, Olympics News, 2012 Lonon Olympic Games, UK Sport News
Lloyd Paige

If Olympic visitors are not travelling to the West End then where are they going? The answer is Westfield Stratford City and it's been billing itself as the gateway to the Olympic Park

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101 Reasons Why the British are the Best - By an American

Melanie Batley | Posted 22.08.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: British Traditions, Britain, The Royalty, Oxbridge, London Tourists, 2012 London Olympics, Tourists, Britain Verses America, UK Lifestyle News
Melanie Batley

1. Queen Victoria 2. The Queen 3. Kate Middleton

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Murder and Mayhem in London - My Father, the Tourist Who Cannot Hear

Sorab Shroff | Posted 15.08.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: London, Tesco, St. Paul's Cathedral, Disability, Silence, London Underground, Deaf, Father's Day, Tourists, London Tourists, UK Lifestyle News
Sorab Shroff

My father has never left the tiny corner of Mumbai in which he lives. He was born deaf, at a time when being disabled meant you were condemned to a limited formal education. His trip, stressful and unforgettable, helped me see London - and my father - differently. With Father's Day coming up, it helped us look at my dad through clear, unsentimental eyes of grown up adults.

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The Hidden Cost of Tourists for the NHS

Chris Skidmore | Posted 30.07.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Free Healthcare, Health Insurance, International Tourists Nhs, British Tourists, 2012 London Olympic Games, Cost of Tourism, Tourists, UK Politics News
Chris Skidmore

Last year, using Freedom of Information requests, I carried out an investigation, which asked every NHS Foundation Trust for the amount of debt owed by foreign nationals - both written off and unpaid. By October 2011, I had gathered responses from over 118 trusts, showing that that more than £40 million had been written off or was still outstanding.

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Two Britons Die Trekking In 'Paradise Island' After Heat Wave Warnings

PA | Posted 14.07.2012 | UK
Read More: Holidays, Heat Wave, Trekking, Weather, Tourists, Gran Canaria, UK News

Two Britons have died in separate incidents while holidaying in Gran Canaria - just days after parts of the Canary Islands were issued with heatwave w...

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Think Before You Ink: Two Thirds Regret Holiday Tattoos

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 06.05.2012 | UK
Read More: Holidays, Travel Agents, UK News, UK Comedy, Holiday Tattoos, Bad Tattoos, Tattoos, Tourists, UK News

Two in three young tourists who have tattoos on holiday later regret it, according to a travel agent poll. An increasing number of young people are...

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British Tourist Becomes Third To Die In Magaluf Within A Month After Balcony Fall

PA | Posted 06.05.2012 | UK
Read More: Holiday, UK News, Majorca, Charlotte Faris, Fco, Tourists, UK News

A British tourist has died after reportedly falling from a hotel balcony in Majorca - the third Briton to die on the Spanish island in less than a mon...

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Tourists Facing 'Rip-Off' Charges From Travel Companies

PA | Posted 23.02.2012 | UK
Read More: Holidays, Travel, Consumers, UK News, Tour-Companies, Surcharges, Which?, Tourists, UK News

Tourists face "rip-off charges" being imposed by some travel organisations, according to Which? Travel magazine. Ultra-expensive telephone contact ...

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Olympic Tourists Scammed Over Accommodation

PA | Posted 15.03.2012 | UK
Read More: UK News, Olympic Accommodation, Olympic Tourists, London Olympics, Olympics 2012, Olympics, 2012 Olympics, London Tourists, Tourists, UK News

Tourists are falling foul of increasingly sophisticated holiday property scams, a travel chief warned today. Visitors to the UK should be particula...

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UK's Exorbitant Air Taxes will Damage Inbound Tourism in 2012

Mary Rance | Posted 25.12.2011 | UK
Read More: Air Passenger Duty, UK Tourists, Queen's Jubilee, London Olympics, Air Taxes, Tourism, Olympics, 2012, UK News
Mary Rance

How, in the year of the 2012 Games and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, could tourism possibly be forecast to shrink?

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British Couple Killed In Spain After Benidorm Flash Flood

PA | Posted 21.12.2011 | UK
Read More: UK Tourists, Flooding, Benidorm, Foreign Office, Flash Flood, Spanish Tourism, Benidorm Flood, Spain, UK News

An elderly British couple have been swept to their deaths in a flash flood while holidaying in Spain. The pair, understood to be in their 70s, were...

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