Travel destinations

Strange as it might seem, this African country that abuts South Africa had no lions left on its lands up until recently

The county where the Tour of Britain started and where Thomas’s family hailed from is pitching to become the cycling hub of Wales.

Every five years, La Gomera in the Canary Islands celebrates a two month festival called Lustral and next month is when the festivities begin.

Irene visits the wilderness, scenery and the food of Newfoundland

What their comments have done may have substantially helped Salisbury tourism.

I have a particular interest in the saga, so this year we decided to do an Outlander Tour and visit the film sites, cramming as much as we could into just three days.

Luckily for the animal, Tourism NSW and Tourism Australia it is only in NSW that koalas seem threatened to extinction if the report is to be believed. And it shouldn’t be.

This weekend both Indonesia and Italy will be promoting their countries in the south east of England.

I suspect that the news coverage largely affected domestic tourists because Britons and other Europeans would have booked their trips some time ago and probably still made their trips albeit with some possible changes

In some ways this campaign breaks ground in that it promotes a feeling of well-being by traveling and holidaying there as opposed to highlighting all the physical attributes of the country.

Irene visits Cusco in Peru, once the capital of the Inca empire until the Spanish conquest.

Reza visits Frankfurt combining a visit to the Embankment Festival with some of the well-known sights of the city.

There are just over two weeks left if you haven’t been to the Great Exhibition of the North and are still planning on going.

Why is this long-established holiday destination attracting so many more of us?

If you decided to give Cornwall a miss this year because of overcrowding, think again.

Reza begins the first part of his journey to Marrakesh and the Atlas mountains by exploring Marrakesh’s medina.

Patricia Cleveland-Peck looks at some of the poets and writers who have taken inspiration from this beautiful Italian lake.

Irene writes of her home town, Loveland, a place re-mails some 110,000 valentines each year, to every state and 110 countries around the world. And Britons send the most!

This could be the year to visit the Sicilian city of Palermo as it is officially Italy’s Capital of Culture.

Patricia visits Il Vittoriale degli Italiani (The Shrine of Italian Victories) on Lake Garda in Italy

Athens is where it’s at

The Paston Treasure, the picture contains images of gold and silver, exotic objects, musical instruments, fruits and flowers, a lobster, a monkey and a parrot, in addition to portraits of a young girl and an African youth.

A new visitor attraction – has opened near the Cornish town of Lostwithiel and only about three miles off the main spinal road of the county – Colwith Farm Distillery – the A30.

Cathrene celebrates her 40th birthday by spending a nday on a narrow-boat.

Irene visits the San Luis Valley which straddles the US states of Colorado and New Mexico.

Virgin Atlantic will cease flying to Dubai as from the end of March next year. Why?

Natasha Blair visits the New Forest National Park to discover what the area has to offer.

Now it seems you have a greater opportunity than ever before because the number of mountain gorillas is increasing