When “going green” comes to be an exasperating experience!
Have you ever tried to book a return rail ticket from London to Rome?
The website responsibletravel has asked a panel to book return rail and air tickets from the UK to Barcelona, Rome, Brussels and Munich on the internet and found that despite 98% of the participants being able make bookings with airlines only 33% were successful in acquiring rail tickets…and those that did manage to book the train took twice as long to do so.
Read the article here.
The need for European Railways to develop a common reservation platform is an old debate; however as we witness the expansion of Europe's high speed rail network and see the European Union leading the campaign for greener travel, we may see increased demand for international rail and therefore it is imperative that we in the industry look to provide a common standard to afford travel agencies, travel management companies and even the general public a simpler booking process.
