Being big doesn’t protect you from insolvency. Recently released National Archive files from the Millennium Commission, which funded the London Dome, show that by January 2000 the project had already run out of money.

Central to market efficiency is the idea of knowledge on the part of buyers and sellers. The world is full of examples of ways in which this knowledge is far from perfect and firms deliberately aim to deceive. Here’s a recent example from the media: the complexity of misleading airline websites.

In a surprising twist, a fans' community website, MyFootballClub, has agreed a deal to take over the Blue Square Premier League team Ebbsfleet United.

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A new survey highlights fascinating insights into the buying and consuming habits of holidaymakers.

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Terror threats, blazing heat and the World Cup have combined to make summer 2006 a dreadful period for tour operators

New data suggests that health-conscious consumers are less inclined to retain their club membership. The health club market is now firmly in a low growth phase and the market may get tougher.

London tourism can be one of the big winners at the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.

Hoverspeed is to withdraw from the Dover-Calais route from Monday saying it can no longer sustain losses on the English Channel.

Britons are becoming "self-made travel agents" who take holidays on the spur of the moment and are more adventurous than ever before, according to a new market research report from Thomson Holidays.

MyTravel has accelerated a shop reduction programme by revealing plans to shut 110 Going Places stores.

Leading US television shows are being broadcast from British royal residences in a move designed to boost incoming tourism to the UK

Direct distribution of theme park tickets was a recurring theme during a travel industry conference last week.

The Civil Aviation Authority is to call for a £1 levy on air passengers to build up a £250 million protection fund against failed airlines.

New data from market researcher Mintel shows that the global gap year market is now worth £5bn, with gap year travellers spending an average of £4,800 per trip

Crystal Ski, the market-leading ski tour operator, has entered the summer holiday market with an activity-related beach holiday brochure

Competitive sport in schools received a boost today with the first 20 specialist competition managers heading into schools to encourage school competitions

We may grumble about the British weather but visitor numbers to indoor tourist attractions increase with the rain, according to a survey out today.

A leading UK tour operator - First Choice - has been included in the FTSE4Good index, a benchmarking system for companies which meet globally recognised corporate responsibility standards.

London Zoo, which launched its first ever Human Zoo exhibit over the recent bank holiday weekend, 26-29 August 2005.

The wildcat strikes that grounded all British Airways flights for 30 hours in August 2005 are estimated to have cost the BA £40 million.

Holiday Which?, the consumer pressure group, wants tough action taken against airlines that flout new laws designed to protect passengers

The Office of Fair Trading ("OFT") has stopped the misleading advertising claims of Devon-based promotional holiday company, Travelworks Ltd.

The global health club industry is nearing its goal of having 100 million members by the year 2010, and will probably exceed this total

Edinburgh is more highly rated as a tourist destination by visitors than ever before, a new survey has found.

A travel agency chain is offering its staff £1,000 to recommend new locations to help its plans for rapid expansion in the UK.

The business that owns Legoland and Sea Life Centre has announced plans for a major southern European expansion

Plans for a new water park have been unveiled at Drayton Manor theme park, one of the UK's leading visitor attractions

The Youth Hostel Association (YHA) is considering selling dozens of its youth hostels to help pay mounting bank debts

A language training and tourism company from Scotland has won a prestigious business award for its unique new tourism service.

British tourism officals have welcomed new market research that suggests that spirit and style of the British people is the UK's greatest asset when it comes to atrtacting tourists.

2004 proved to be a bumper year for British cinemas according to new figures released by the British Film Council.

A former coal mine in South Wales has won the UK’s largest arts prize – the £100,000 Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year.

Visitors to London can enjoy a new look St. Paul’s Cathedral following a four-year restoration project.

Sport England, a government agency, today announced that it is to embark on a major new survey of participation in sport and physical activity in England.

Locations featured in films and novels can benefit from a boost in tourism from Britain of up to 30 per cent according to new market research.

A luxury London hotel has been quick off the mark and created an Olympic package for visitors arriving in 2012.

The holiday clothing market is now worth £1.32bn to British retailers, having grown a significant 7% in the last year. This suggests that although sales of clothing and footwear are showing slow growth, people are happily spending more when it comes to buying holiday items.

The decline in the number of travel agents in the UK will stabilise over the next five years. However travel agents will still have to battle for survival, according to market research firm Euromonitor International.

Mytravel, one of the UK's largest tour operator groups, has announced that the combined cost of the Sharm el-Sheikh terrorist bombings and the recent hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico could exceed £2 million.

Only 75 per cent of the 190,000 licensed premises in England and Wales – which range from pubs and clubs to restaurants and village halls – had submitted applications for the new alcohol licences by the appointed deadline.

A leading marketing lawyer has warned that new Government regulations designed to protect sponsors of the 2012 London Olympics could threaten advertising revenues around the Games period.

A ruling in the High Court will mean that holidaymakers will find it harder to make compensation claims against travel companies when they are injured abroad.

Some English hotel rooms are a potential health hazard, according to a new report from consumer watchdog Holiday Which?

More than a quarter (26%) of adults in Britain, France and Germany say they have been put off from visiting or travelling in London following the bombings on July 7 and the attempted attacks on July 21.

Despite its introduction over three years ago, UK holidaymakers are still unable to recognise the Euro, according to market research recently released by the Post Office

A new website promoting the products of specialist tour operators has just gone live. Members of the Association of Independent Tour Operators have developed the new site to help them compete more effectively using online promotion.

A market research report on the UK ski industry suggests that skiing holidays are growing in popularity despite predictions that the ski industry has become a slow growth, mature market.

An online hotel room distributor has carried off a major business award as a result of its growth strategy

Popular entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou has entered the London hotel market with a no frills, discount hotel product that has, once again, captured the media's attention

Sales of package tours grew in 2004, reversing the trend of declining sales in recent years

EUjet, a low-cost airline set up by a former Ryanair director, has gone bust - leaving thousands of passengers stranded

Initial estimates from an official tourism research organisation estimate that the terrorism incidents in London could result in lost tourism revenues of up to £300 in 2005

Two more popular museums have been able to change their pricing policy to allow free entrance

British travel operators and agents look well-placed to benefit from the successful London 2012 Olympic bid