This weekly column began in 1994. I calculate today’s is number 1,572. Never has there been a weekend when I have been stumped for a subject: the travel industry is constantly changing, innovating and faltering. Sometimes, the thing writes itself – or, even better, readers do the work for me. And so it has proved today.
The context: prospective travellers are being turned away from airports because they inadvertently fail to comply with the passport rules for visits to the European Union.
