Skyscanner: Profit jumps to almost £100m at travel search engine October 14, 2024 Profit at travel search engine Skyscanner has rocketed to almost £100m thanks to the final Covid-19 restrictions coming to an end. The Edinburgh-headquartered business has reported a pre-tax profit of £95.2m for 2023, up from the £31.5m it achieved in 2022. Newly-filed accounts with Companies House also show its revenue rose from £283.8m to £349.4m [...]
These amazing apartments are designed to look like your supercar October 7, 2024 Do you love your car? Enough to sleep in it? Or, more accurately, do you love your car enough to sleep in a residence built from the ground up to reflect its shape, its personality, its philosophy? A growing number of (extremely rich) people do, with such branded residences popping up from Dubai to Spain [...]
Why Georgia’s capital Tbilisi is the most fascinating city in Europe October 7, 2024 Towering over the Georgian capital of Tbilisi is Mtatsminda Park, a Soviet-era fairground and gardens set atop a craggy hill. Accessed by a funicular railway, you will find a host of terrifying, creaky old amusement rides, including the 65-metre-high Giant Wheel, which seems to bow outwards over the edge of a sheer cliff. Dotted around [...]
How I positioned my start-up at the forefront of London’s business travel scene October 7, 2024 Entrepreneur Bobby Drewett of business travel app Ouno on his plans to shake up the industry
A taste of the Georgian high life in the City: Batty Langley’s hotel in Shoreditch September 28, 2024 Shed your City skin and play the part of a Georgian aristocrat, writes Lucy Kenningham reviewing Batty Langley's hotel in Shoreditch
Profit more than doubles at Flight Centre thanks to pick-up in business travel August 28, 2024 A surge in the number of corporate flights taking off helped Flight Centre Travel Group’s pre-tax profit more than double during its latest financial year. The Australian-headquartered group delivered a AU$320m (£164.42m) in underlying profit before tax for 2024, a 131 per cent year-on-year increase and at the mid-point of Flight Centre’s guidance range. The [...]
Expedia: Profit more than doubles as UK sales surge as travel demand returns July 24, 2024 The UK arm of Expedia saw its profit more than double as its turnover surged by almost £60m during 2023, it has been revealed.
Easyhotel: Bookings surge fails to stop budget chain sinking further into the red June 18, 2024 Budget chain Easyhotel has reported its biggest loss since 2020 as a rise in bookings failed to offset more than £16m in loan charges.
Safestay: More business travellers choosing hostels fails to boost chain’s profit June 7, 2024 Losses have continued to mount for hostel chain Safestay, despite the company saying it had seen an increased number of business travellers checking in to its properties.
Virgin Atlantic Holidays makes first profit since 2018 as luxury travel to Florida and the Caribbean recovers April 19, 2024 Virgin Atlantic Holidays returned to making a profit for the first time since 2018.