Charlie Essex

Exclusive Use portfolio hotels achieve the highest rankings in the land for cuisine and service

The Exclusive Use portfolio of hotels and venues, as well as castles for hire now features an unsurpassed selection of the finest hotels in the UK and Europe. The collection includes Gidleigh Park and The Bath Priory, with the restaurant at Gidleigh havin... Read >

Plane and Simple

The ash cloud spewing from that unpronounceable volcano in Iceland, which grounded airlines across Europe earlier this year, has been blamed for many of the industry's woes. Coming at a time when it was starting to recover from the economic apocalypse of ... Read >

Paper Crunching

In the search for solutions to the havoc wrought by the economic crisis, Mark Frary wonders whether the travel sector could benefit from the lateral approach of benchmarking. Buying business travel investigates.When you have downgraded the star rating of... Read >

British Airways Reshaping

Love him or hate him - and there are probably many more of the latter than the former - you can't help having a grudging admiration for British Airways' embattled CEO Willie Walsh. The combative Irishman celebrates, if that is the right word, his fifth an... Read >