London offers 2012 travel package
London’s Olympic bid team has offered athletes and team officials a package including free flights to the Games if the city wins hosting rights for 2012.
Promises also include £53 each in telephone calls, free train travel and free accommodation for family members.
On Sunday, London’s team revealed a number of incentives for members of international sporting bodies.
The announcements are aimed at boosting London’s case against Paris, New York, Madrid and Moscow for the vote in July.
London’s bid leader Lord Coe made the pledges, which would be likely to cost the organising committee about £15m, at the Sport Accord conference in Berlin.
It is the last major gathering before the International Olympic Committee’s session in Singapore, where members will choose the host city for 2012.
And all five rivals, who presented their plans to delegates on Sunday, are lobbying hard.
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Commuters will face disruptions across London as transport bosses attempt to resume normal service following the terrorist atrocity. Here is the latest travel information for London:
Security alerts closed Liverpool Street, Charing Cross and Euston main line stations in the latter part of the morning rush-hour.
Charing Cross and Euston quickly reopened, but Liverpool Street, where there were two suspect packages, was shut for an hour.
Network Rail chief executive John Armitt said: "We urge passengers to help us minimise security alerts at this sensitive time, by keeping their luggage and belongings with them at all times."
GNER was able
Travel agents and airlines are fielding calls from people concerned about the safety of travelling to London, but only a handful have changed their plans as a result of Thursday's bomb attacks.
Air New Zealand spokesman Mike Tod said 22 passengers due to leave on its Thursday afternoon flight from London to Auckland could not get to the airport because of disruption to the public transport system. They would be put on the next available flight without penalty.
The airline did not expect to make any changes to its daily London service and none of its staff had been injured
International travel bookings are expected to soften slightly as Thursday's deadly explosions in London stoke tourists' terrorism fears.
A slump in trans-Atlantic tourism would hurt what has been a bright spot for the beleaguered airline industry, though analysts said the impact should be minor and short-lived, reflecting travellers' increasing resilience to unsettling world events.
Any negative effects for the travel industry will likely be most acute in London, where dozens were killed and more than 700 were wounded on Thursday by explosions set off in the city's subway system and on a double-decker bus.
Industry officials said that based on recent experiences
International travel bookings are expected to soften slightly as Thursday’s deadly explosions in London stoke tourists’ terrorism fears. A slump in trans-Atlantic tourism would hurt what has been a bright spot for the beleaguered airline industry, though analysts said the effect should be minor and short-lived.
Any negative effects for the travel industry will likely be most acute in London, where at least 37 people were killed and more than 700 were wounded Thursday by explosions set off in the city’s subway system and on a double-decker bus.
Tour operators said that based on recent experiences with terror attacks – most
Flights to London have been unaffected by the Thursday bomb attacks, and travellers from Thailand to the United Kingdom should not be inconvenienced.
Methanee Sukmak of JP Travel said none of her agency's customers had cancelled trips and her business was not affected. Travellers to the UK are aware that Thursday's attacks were in central London only, while airports were far away from the city centre, she said.
''If a bomb went off at an airport, that would be another story,'' said Ms Methanee.
In any case, July is the low season for Thais going to Europe, she said. Traffic between Thailand and
