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Seven million airline passengers are wasting almost 1,000 years in additional travel time and ?182million between them by choosing to fly out of the main London airports instead of their local airport, a study reveals today.

The Association of Women Travel Executives (AWTE) hosted its Christmas Lunch last week, bringing together executives from the UK travel and tourism industry and raising more than ?20,000 for the Alzheimer?s Society.

New research has revealed that noise, steep food & drink prices and lack of leg room are the biggest pet-hates on flights, with one in three admitting they?d like to see quiet zones introduced.

Bourne Leisure has launched a series of new and interactive online training courses for 2017, complete with prizes and added benefit extras.

The tourism outlook for India is going from strength to strength with India?s Ministry of Tourism reporting that foreign tourist arrivals have significantly increased in the last few years, along with an 11.8% growth in visitor figures in August this year from 2015.

Recent research by Contiki has revealed that the most desired travel experience for 18-35 year olds in 2017 is to bathe in Iceland?s Blue Lagoon.

DoSomethingDifferent.com has launched a new-look website that has been completely redesigned based on feedback from the trade.

Following the success of its Discovery brochure, which debuted last year, Balkan Holidays has launched a new Discovery programme of special interest holidays to Central and Eastern Europe for 2017 featuring Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia.