Recent terrorist attacks and kidnappings in Kenya will have made most people aware of the problems there at this time. However, over almost 200,000 British nationals visited Kenya in 2010 with only 81 of them needing to seek British consul assistance so making clear the trouble-free holidays and visits most tourists do have. Currently there are bargains to be had in wonderful safari holidays in the Masai Mara and Serengheti.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has issued warnings to travellers about visiting Thailand at present. There has been heavy rain across the country leading to flash floods and mudslides and causing rivers to break their banks. The worst areas are the north, north east and central Thailand, and Bangkok itself is now likely to be affected, which may affect electricity and water supplies.

A volcanic eruption at sea five miles south of La Restinga on El Hierro on Saturday has been confirmed. Though El Hierro has had around 9,600 earthquakes since mid July this year caused by magma activity underneath the island and the Saturday eruption is the first recorded in spain since the Teneguia volcano appeared on Las Palma in 1971.

The volcanic eruption in Chile’s Puyehue Cordon Caulle mountains that started on June 4th is continuing to disrupt flights not only in the region, but wider afield as the ash cloud reached Western Australia on the 14th June.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office warn of a possible demonstrations and violence in the streets today, Sunday 27 February affecting several areas including Manama, and renew advice for the avoidance of all but essential travel to Bahrain.

The current major street demonstrations have mean that the Foreign and Community Office are advising against travel to Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor and Suez and advise all British nationals currently in these areas to leave by commercial means, though this does not affect transits through Cairo airport, where there may be delays and disruptions to flight schedules.

As the FCO advises against holiday travel to Tunisia and thousands are repatriated, it appears that tourists seeking North-African sun should, for the time being, look for holidays in Morocco or Egypt.

The FCO has advised tourists to take particular care when diving or snorkelling in Red Sea resorts after a number of attacks by a shark on divers in the waters off Sharm-el-Sheikh. These kinds of shark attacks in Red Sea are very rare, and this is an unusual occurrence, and it is suggested that a particular oceanic white tip shark rogue shark is to blame.

Latest updates on motorway traffic and travel during the disruption due to heavy snowfall across the UK.

Rolls Royce have identified the fault on the A380 that forced the Singapore airlines plane to turn back last week and say the fault is specific to the Trent 900 engine.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has issued a general alert for Bahrain as terrorists issue statements about attacks on western interests in the Gulf. Bahrain elections are taking place on the 23rd and 30th October and the period around them will be politically sensitive.

On October 3 the US State Department made a travel alert warning of terrorist attacks in Europe – but now the US Travel tour Operators Association is saying that Americans should continue with travel plans and arrangements.

There have been four bomb alerts in the Paris region over the past four weeks, and one on Tuesday saw the second evacuation of the Eiffel Tower and the Champs de Mars park – there was another one last week. A search failed to turn up any explosives.

The Mexican Government has issued a hurricane warning as Hurricane Karl upgraded to a Category 3 is predicted to affect a 180 miles stretch of coast from Veracruz to Cabo Rojo and tropical storm warnings for the coast between Veracruz and Punta el Lagarto.

Coastal regions of America and East Asia are already affected by a number of storms –and others are developing. These can drastically affect your holiday if you are in the region, and you should ensure your insurance covers you for any outcomes of being exposed to severe weather.

The luxury Intercontinental Hotel in Rio de Janeiro was the site of a pitched battle between more than fifty heavily armed gunmen from drug gangs who had taken 35 hostages, and the police last Saturday. As a result some are thinking of cancelling their plans for visiting Rio.

Over 100 hectares of pine woods have been destroyed in one of the worst fires in the Balearic islands and though only three people had to be treated for smoke inhalation, at the outset around 1500 people had to be evacuated by boat from the beach at Benirras in the north of Ibiza.