Claire Irwin

Yeah, it's a long time ago.

It wasn't a time of great financial stability in the country.

So housing, sale of houses and different things like that wasn't like what it is today.

So we put the house up for sale thinking that it would take us forever.

And within a week we had the viewing and it was Eamon Cook.

I don't think I initially got a good vibe from him at all.

But when you're in the process of selling a house, you know, I was told he was a cash buyer.

And so that went through fairly quickly.

I'm coming through airport passport security, a biometric scan, and I'm through.

From now on, people from outside the UK coming through these gates will need to have a UK ETA, an electronic travel authorization.

It costs £16, about US$20, and you'll need to apply three days before to guarantee you'll get it on time.

Claire Irwin is travel editor for the Sunday Times in the UK.

The European Union's new entry and exit scheme will come in from October.

There are thousands of messages on travel forums you can read about people missing flights because, frankly, they didn't know about these new visas.

just like video producer Owen Ephraim from South Wales.

There's also the problem of fraud and businesses making large profits off the new arrangements.

Almost all of these is asked that people book directly from the government or official site of the country that you're visiting.

But this has not stopped companies charging sometimes hundreds of dollars for doing it for them, even masking as official partners, which is what happened to Jasmine Gallant from New Brunswick in Canada.

ESTA fraud is frequent enough that US Customs and Borders Protection regularly warns travellers about these type of scams.

Juliet Lobuside is from the Advantage Travel Partnership, a global group of independent travel businesses.