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Cheap flights to Sanford Orlando but beware the Visa charge.
President of the USA, Barack Obama has agreed a bill which means a UK family visiting America may need to stump up an extra £40 for their holiday say airflights.co.uk. Mr Obama signed the Travel Promotion Act (TPA) which became law at the beginning of March. The U.S. Travel Association called the move a major step in addressing the drop-off in visitors to the US during the past ten years.
The new legislation which it is thought is likely to come into force by the end of 2010 and is being funded for by holidaymakers who will have to part with Ten dollars (£6.70) to help fund the tourism marketing campaigns.
The fee will cover for two years - the length of time that a necessary ESTA visa-waiver application is valid for. However as UK holiday makers are likely to pay for the charge by credit card online, extra processing fees could push the tax up to perhaps fifteen dollars (£10). Not great news for our customers booking cheap flights and hotels to Sanford Orlando say airflights.co.uk a top on line UK ABTA travel agency. Although this is a US government charge it is really just an extra tax to the holiday maker going on top of extraneous charges for luggage, meals and seating levied by most airlines. Airflights say that this on top of an ever weakening pound against the dollar and the euro is pushing more and more customers to destinations such as Egypt and Turkey booking cheap flights and cheap all inclusive hotel deals which means that they are less affected by the weakness of Sterling. Holiday makers to the US from Britain have declined over the last few years as travellers have had to cope with ever increasing security checks on arrival in the US coupled with the exchange rate. In other words our customers have voted with their feet say airflights who have noticed that clients who regularly booked cheap flights to Sanford have switched to places such as cheap flights to Madeira, Spain, Turkey Cyprus or Egypt.
A big marketing campaign may revitalise numbers of visitors say the cheap flight specialist, however we will have to see if the new levy to obtain your visa waiver actually has the reverse effect! We will have to watch this one closely say airflights.co.uk.
Find cheap flights to Sanford at airflights.co.uk on line where they sell very cheap flights to beach resorts around Europe including cheap flights to Faro, Sharm, Monastir, Marrakech, Madeira (Funchal), Tel Aviv,,Malta, Rhodes, Corfu, Kos, Kefalonia, Zante, Preveza, Santorini, Heraklion and Chania. Malaga, Reus, Gerona, and Alicante in Spain, Dalaman, Izmir and Bodrum in Turkey, Paphos and Larnaca in Cyprus. As well as Cheap flights and hotels in the Red Sea resorts of Sharm El Sheikh, Marsa Alam, Taba heights and Hurghada which boast the Red Sea's world class scuba diving in the Ras Mohammed National Park. Airflights also offer some long haul destinations on line including Sanford Orlando, Banjul, Goa, Cancun and Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic. To book a cheap flight or hotel with airflights visit www.airflights.co.uk or call and speak to a travel consultant on 0800 093 2615. Airflights is a trading name of Air Flights Direct Ltd and is fully protected by ABTA fully independent and has been selling cheap flights in excess of 15 years.
Article ID: 882, Posted: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:01:02 GMT
