Dear Tripped Up, Last September, my husband and I left our kids with their grandparents and set off to Ireland. Our $2,132 itinerary took us from Minneapolis to Toronto to Dublin on tickets booked on United Airlines through Expedia but ultimately operated by Air Canada, a United partner. We had boarded our connecting flight in […]
The beer gardens are bursting and the piazzas are packed: it’s summertime in Europe. But where should you go on holiday in June; that magic time when the Med twinkles winsomely from dawn until dusk, and nights that resemble day urge spritzes on canals and sangrias in cobbled squares long after twilight? As the continent […]
Partnership is a move to encourage inbound Chinese tourism Chinese-OTA Trip.com has unveiled an exclusive partnership with Air China, to launch the Explore China campaign. The collaboration between the brands will see a promotion, running from 13 March- 30 April 2024, to encourage travellers from the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland to discover […]
European under-20 champion makes dramatic decision to travel to Belgrade for global champs on March 30 as she joins Abbie Donnelly, Jess Warner-Judd and Will Barnicoat in GB team When Innes FitzGerald won the under-20 women’s race at the Inter-Counties Cross Country Championships and World Trials in Nottingham last Saturday, she had little intention of […]
The Silk Road, the ancient trade route between Asia and Europe, has always been steeped in romance, conjuring up images of caravans bringing jewels, spices and delicate silks across mountains and deserts. This is the landscape of The Arabian Nights, and the thread that linked East and West, a highway for the exchange of ideas […]
In 1853 Napoleon III laid out a map of Paris in front of the architect Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann and instructed him to “aérer, unifier, et embellir Paris.” In other words, to give it air and open space. The results were called “a genius of showmanship” by one writer and, indeed, Haussmann’s impact is still evident […]
Skift Take Travel brands would lose the ability to reach one of the world’s largest outbound tourism markets on TikTok. — Dawit Habtemariam The push to ban TikTok in the U.S. has again gained momentum – a move that would have enormous consequences for the travel industry. TikTok is one of the most popular marketing […]
The World Travel Awards – dubbed the ‘Oscars of tourism’ – have been announced for 2024 and two Scottish distilleries plus a number of hotels have triumphed. The Singleton of Glen Ord Distillery, located in Muir of Ord, has been named Scotland’s Leading Distillery Tour 2024 and The Glentlivet was named Scotland’s Leading Whisky Distillery […]
The best lenses for travel photography will enable you to take amazing photos without weighing you down. Travel photography lenses are often versatile zooms that allow you to pack just one lens such as a superzoom but it all comes down to your shooting style and how much you want to carry. With most of […]
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). We’ve all been on some extreme trips. But how many of us can claim to have travelled to the very edge of the world? I can… sort of. Allow me to explain. I made several trips for my latest book The Conspiracy Tourist, but the strangest […]
