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 […]
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Pride events take place around the world all year round: they’re magical, joyous, colour-popping celebrations of freedom attended by members of the LGBT community and their allies. June — the official month of Pride — commemorates the 1969 Stonewall riots, when LGBT community members, led by black and Latin American trans activists, protested police raids […]
This marked a 50 per cent increase from 2023, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. While many travellers prefer group tours for the convenience of having all logistics managed by agencies, however, in a bid to attract customers, some travel tour businesses offer “zero-dollar tours” which claim to cover the cost of transportation, […]
In 2028, the revenue change is forecast to significantly decrease in all segments compared to the previous time point. In this context, the notably strong decrease of the segment Camping towards the end of the forecast period stands out. In comparison to the average decrease of 0.128 percent, the indicator is decreasing significantly here, with […]
South Africa’s troubling crime rates is one of the things that’s been putting off tourists in recent years. Most recently, in January 2024, a British Airways pilot was targeted by armed robbers in Johannesburg and forced to withdraw thousands of pounds from cash machines around the city. The UK Foreign Office travel advice for the […]
Adding to a growing body of evidence, Sapien Labs identifies a link – not just in the UK, but globally – between poor mental wellbeing and the pervasiveness of smartphones and online comms. That young people are noted to have suffered the biggest drop in mental wellbeing appears to add heft to their argument. Ditto […]
The World Travel Awards are some of the travel industry’s most prestigious accolades, and the winners in the European categories have been crowned at the thirty-first edition of the ceremony in Berlin. Leaders in tourism, airline, hotel and hospitality sectors are all included in the programme, but it’s the destinations themselves that we’re most excited […]
