Travel destinations

As long as I can remember, Astérix and his bumbling crony Obélix have been around.

Unlike many countries where the cherry blossom is over all too briefly, Canada provides the opportunity to see if over a few of the late Spring months.

Reza explores some remoter areas of the Philippines – Palawan

This isn’t a forecast by the state’s tourist authority, its mine but I’m pretty sure it will be accurate.

Congratulations to Mr Adams for managing something that the local council has never managed to achieve – putting Cwmbran on the tourist map.

New hotels are being constructed, new trails for tourists to follow are being developed and existing buildings are being given a lick of TLC.

Will all this plus city breaks in the capital, Kuala Lumpur and other cities plus that fast-growing tourism offering – medical tourism – be enough to find the extra millions the minister wants?

Having survived the worst, all the accommodation providers, the attractions and the destinations hope to prosper now the Britons are returning.

Without the airline frequency, many visitors won’t have time to visit Alice Springs unless that is specifically a place they want to visit.

From a complete start until now, the tourist authority has laboured to put the place on the map. And hasn’t it succeeded!

Over 650,000 Britons visit Australia from the UK each year. Most of the time there are no problems but Lucy Taylor of LY Lawyers warns of some offences that might land you in gaol.

It is very unlikely that some of the items on display will be seen in the UK again for decades if not hundreds of years.

Just because one destination is cheaper doesn’t mean that the whole country is

The museum work isn’t completed. More monetary donations are needed to complete the next stage of work and more “everyday” items are always welcome.

Outside of Freetown you will find what was described to me as “barefoot luxury.”

These are the main events in just the first month of so of the celebrations. There will be many more throughout the year.

Next year visitors to Rio de Janeiro should find any number of tours that will specialise on the burgeoning architectural highlights of the city.
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Although it seems like a lot of visitors stayed on the island in fact the numbers are much less and the island remains largely uncrowded.

In Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, the new year is brought in by what is claimed to be the biggest outdoor party in the world on Copacabana Beach.

One bush property had an old petrol (it might have been diesel) tank that acted as its letter box.

The Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) has declared that it will the Year of Festivals in the Caribbean. In Wales it is the Year of Discovery.

Reza visits Miltenberg, a town that looks like it should adorn a chocolate box or a Christmas card!

Tomorrow, 17 December, the Fundació Miró Mallorca – the museum which honours the life and work of artist Joan Miró– will re-open the famous ‘Taller Sert’ (Sert workshop)

It will either be Durham Tees Valley Airport or the old name which was Teeside International Airport. You can vote

Fifteen years ago Qatar was pretty much unknown. To the vast majority of holidaymakers I would say that is still the case.

The Austrian capital city, Vienna, has campaigned in the UK (actually just London) to convince visitors to forget selfies and take fewer photos while in the city. But isn’t that what visitors do? Take pictures. Hundreds of them!

From the 12th of January until St Patrick’s Day in March, “Legends of the Force – A Celebration of Star Wars” will attract visitors from all over Europe to Disneyland Paris.

Like all ski resorts, a continuous programme of upgrades and improvements is needed in order to encourage people to return or go there for the first time in preference to going somewhere else.