Travel destinations

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

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.