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By Charles Starmer-Smith 800AM GMT twenty Mar 2010

Britain"s industry is value a little �135 billion a year Photo CORBIS

Minister for tourism

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The Conservatives have betrothed to designate a dedicated apportion for tourism should they form the subsequent government. Responsibility for tourism an industry value a little �135 billion a year is now separate opposite five opposite departments. Over the past twelve years, a period of eight ministers has had the pursuit as usually one piece of a portfolio.

Telegraph bard dies

Elisabeth de Stroumillo (married name Turner), 83, a former transport editor of The Dailyand writer of most guidebooks, died last week following an collision on her scooter in London. She worked for the paper from 1969 until 1990.

Cruise payout

The widow of a British man who died after constrictive Legionnaires" disease during a Fred Olsen journey has been awarded �70,000. Audrey Heath and her father Robert were on vacation Lapland and St Petersburg in Jul 2007 on the MS Black Watch when an conflict was discovered. An inquisition found that Fred Olsen Cruise Lines unprotected Mr Heath to the disease and that the dual doctors unsuccessful to sufficient reply to his getting worse condition.

New routes

Bmi is to proceed drifting in between Heathrow and Berlin on Mar 28, with lapse fares from �99, together with tax. Spanair is to proceed drifting from Birmingham to Barcelona and Madrid in May, with earnings from �65, together with tax.

Death of the transport leaflet as holidaymakers go online

They have been a tack of transport agencies and dental surgeries given the commencement of the package holiday, but the silken transport leaflet has turn the ultimate misadventure of the internet era, according to a survey.

Cost of legal legal legal holiday air transport surges

Passengers are confronting eye-watering fares to far-flung legal legal legal holiday destinations since of the British Airways strike.

Germans "a threat on the ski slopes"

Germans are not usually the scandal of British legal legal legal holiday makers on the beach but additionally are a threat on the ski slopes, a investigate has suggested.