SOCIAL media has come to the rescue of lots of travellers stranded by the Iceland volcano ash across Europe, with Twitter alive with so-called “hashtags” like #getmehome, #putmeup and #roadsharing as people try to organise emergency travel and accommodation.
A Facebook group called ‘When Volcanoes Erupt: A Survival Guide for Stranded Travellers’ has attracted thousands of members, while there’s even a website at www.VolcanoHelp.eu.
THE volcano dramas have also seen lots of creative solutions from the travel industry.
Royal Caribbean International, which this week had a glittering inaugural organised for its new Celebrity Eclipse sailing out of Southampton in the UK, has instead dispatched the vessel to Bilbao in Spain where she will help repatriate stranded British holidaymakers back to the UK.
And TUI Travel, which has 40,000 passengers stuck abroad due to the volcanic ash cloud, is using coaches across Europe to bring some travellers back to northern France where they will then travel by ferry to the UK.
