Travel destinations

No longer could destinations just attract tourists. They now needed to “manage” where tourists went in cities so that locals could exist in harmony with visitors.

Since fancy dress and other Halloween items have been in the shops for so long it is easy to forget that there is actually an end date.

This is the name given to an exhibition being held in Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki.

Resa visits Kronberg Castle, today a hotel but with a past entwined with the German monarchy

This is the promotional slogan that is being used to promote Durham.

English Heritage is inviting people to join them at the stones on Friday 26 October 2018 and over that weekend for a few days full of celebration and surprises.

The Poás Volcano National Park was one of the biggest national and international tourist attractions until it was closed. Now the tourist authorities will be hoping that it reclaims that status after such a long closure.

This summer the Austrian Tyrol has spent time and money on replacing and updating its chair and ski lifts.

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.

Judith Baker escaped London for the fresh breezes, beautiful scenery and storybook charm of the isle of Mull in the Scottish Inner Hebrides.

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.