Travel destinations

Travel guide Lonely Planet has hailed England as the second best country in the world in which to travel. Here’s why…

The rest of the Bahamas escaped largely unscathed and tourist continued to holiday there but media reports made some visitors wary.

As the Christmas market season draws closer, Sibiu in Transylvania is probably not one of those places to be found on your list of potential destinations.

For Turkey, the collapse of Thomas Cook was significant because the company was responsible for bringing over a million tourists to the country just from the UK but Germany as well.

Launched yesterday, this new strapline and theme is how the Northern Ireland Tourist Board and Tourism Ireland would like us to think of the province.

Rarely has Mid Wales been appreciated in tourism awards but that has now changed .

Oxford concludes its outlook for Tunisian tourism by suggesting that there is ample potential for growth.

Will birdwatching, looking at rock art and watching the sun come up over the monolith be enough to keep 400,000 people coming each year?

And you thought that Blackpool just had lights stretching along the front and that was it!

The Egyptian tourism minister, Rania A Al Mashat tweeted “Welcome back to Sharm el Sheikh. Our Friends…You’ve been missed.”

The Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI) and members of the Barbados Hotel & Tourism Association (BHTA), have partnered to launch ‘Barbados Cares’

The aim of the campaign is to highlight the diversity that is available in the Caribbean nations.

Is this Mallorca’s new travel promotion scheme to remnd us that the island is more than just about beaches, sunshine and watersports?

The absence of any flights from UK regions will reduce the opportunities for people to explore the delights of Slovenia

In the wake of the demise of Thomas Cook, Gambia is now on the lookout for visitors to holiday in the country this coming autumn and winter.

It has been estimated that about a hundred thousand Britons would have travelled by Thomas Cook to Morocco which is about one-in-seven of all British visitors to the country.

Headed to Japan for the 2019 Rugby World Cup which runs until the 2 November? When you’ve had your fill of rugby, be sure to explore Tokyo and around

Where the Japanese have been clever is that by picking some cities westerners might not know they are widening the knowledge to foreigners about what to see and do.

Another way of helping is by continuing to consider holidaying in the Bahamas.

If cinnamon and nutmeg were the reasons that the island of Grenada got its reputation as the spice island of the Caribbean then tourism might be the reason why it thrives in the twenty-first century.

Puerto Rico (which Americans don’t even need a passport to reach) is back on the Caribbean travel map, with its promise of winter sun which won’t cost a fortune.

More convenient for Britons is Stuttgart and ideal for a city or short break. It also has links with Bauhaus.

Flight bookings up until 31 July for departures in the next six months (between August 2019 and January 2020) from the UK indicate that key growth destinations include Ecuador (up 25.1%), Dominican Republic (24.1%), Costa Rica (20.3%) and Chile. (8.3%.)

In North America they have launched the Indy Pass which is multi-resort ski pass covering 34 independently owned resorts across the continent.

Uganda has 54% of the population of mountain gorillas most living in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Mgahinga in southwestern Uganda.

For many years Sutton Hoo has been managed by the National Trust. they have just re-opened the visitor centre after updating and renovation.

Were they just planning a sand feature in their garden or were they going, as has been suggested by some media outlets, to sell it on the internet?

Leonardo Hotels have undertaken some research that suggests about 6% of Britons – that is over 3.5 million of us – have never visited London.