Travel destinations

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

With so much to see and so many nearby places to visit a day either flies by or you decide you need to spend much longer in this little patch of the old county of Sussex.

The low-down on the Jamaican coffee scene

A heady mix of haunting ruins, awe-inspiring art and vibrant street life, Italy’s hot-blooded capital is one of the world’s most inspiring and romantic cities. While the big-ticket monuments certainly leave their mark, you might just find yourself falling for the city’s smaller-scale charms down cobbled lanes and around hidden corners

Calcio (football) reigns supreme in Italian sport. There are no other contenders. Indeed, some people have suggested that Italians engage in two impassioned acts of worship on Sundays: the first at the chiesa (church), and the second at the San Siro, Allianz or Stadio Olimpico, the revered temples of AC Milan, Juventus and AS Roma

Today is the 120th anniversary of the Philippines gaining independence from Spain.

Reza visits the Moroccan city of Fez to see one of the best preserved medinas in the world.

Adrian visits Tonbridge in Kent, a town he previously thought of as one of many commuter towns around London.

Saint Lucia has launched a campaign starting today called the Saint Lucia Summer of Discovery which enables one visitor the chance to win $10,000 when holidaying there this summer.

The tourist board in the US state of Massachusetts has developed a Massachusetts Whale Trail.

All of which – in concert with all the other heritage sites that Turkey has to offer and a weakening currency – should mean that the current boom in holidays to the country should continue.

What makes these tours a little different is that they haven’t been devised by internationally renowned chefs of even famous Swiss restaurants, but by locals.

Natasha Blair explores the literary heritage of a small part of West Yorshire.

The Mall of America is very popular with British tourists. In fact we make up the largest contingent on non-North American visitors

Perhaps next year, we the tourists will be remembered in not just Wales Tourism Week but that held in Scotland as well and that they both take a leaf out of Visit England’s book and arrange more consumer events.

Judith visits The Abacos, a 120-mile–long chain of isands that are part of the Bahamas.

If successful, such a site would do more to regenerate this part of Wales than anything else so far considered. It would also create a reminder of the international importance that Merthyr once had in industrial development.

Natasha completes her visit to Zimbabwe and starts this leg of her tour by visiting the Victoria Falls.

With a certain amount of trepidation Natasha Blair visits Zimbabwe and is delighted to find that it has a lot to offer for those who love nature and wildlife.

That the emirate, Ras Al Khaimah, claims an 18% increase for the first quarter of the year in British visitors is no great surprise. After all, up until a few years ago many British people hadn’t even heard of the destination. Then some aggressive marketing by the tourism authority and some investment in headline getting attractions – the longest zipline in the world – began to put it on the holiday map and Brits began to holiday there. Hotel occupancy rates were as high as
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You might also call Idaho -this Pacific north west state – the forgotten state when it comes to British holidaymakers because not that many people think of holidaying there.

Here’s a few of our favourite brilliant buildings from around the world…

This year Arundel Castle celebrates the 950th anniversary of its initial creation and it is still a home lived in by the Dukes of Norfolk,

Reza visits Innsbruck and finds a city that was nurtured by the Holy Romans Emperor, Maximilian I

Patricia completes her river journey in Vietnam by cruising along the Red River

Today marks the day when, sixty-five years ago, the royal yacht Britannia was launched on the Clyde in Glasgow and twenty years since Britannia came to its current berth on Edinburgh.

Patricia continues her river journey in Vietnam by travelling from Halong Bay to the Red River in the north by way of five smaller rivers.

Patricia begins her three part tour of cruising Vietnam on a riverboat by crusing in one of the country’s top destinations – Halong Bay