Tenerife, Jamaica, Dubai and Singapore are all seeing more British and Irish visitors. That is providing they aren’t trying to get there via Gatwick and using Southern to catch their planes. Yes the strikes at Southern look set to continue!
Discover a whole world of voyages at the 9th annual London CRUISE Show… for free!
This week my column comes from Sydney in Australia as I shall be here for the next few weeks preparing some stories and visiting relations. Expect then, a biased towards Australian stories for a while! Let’s start with culture because the tourist authority for NSW, Destination NSW, says cultural tourism is on the rise with the state attracting almost 6.5 million overnight cultural visitors in the year ending March 2015, a significant 5.6% increase on the previous year. During the year ending March 2015, NSW
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It’s European Heritage Days this weekend in many places so get out and enjoy says Adrian as he also winds up the smaller stories of the week.
Adrian hears both critiscism and praise from readers about recent holidays, wonders why only 8 people travel by train to Durham Tees Valley Airport and prepares for English Tourism Week.
The UK’s biggest cruise showcase is perfect both for those new to cruising and needing help to plan their first voyage, as well as seasoned cruisers looking for inspiration for their next holiday at sea
This weekend sees the opening at Glasgow’s SECC of the Cruise Show whilst next weekend, it moves to Birmingham. Congratulations to all you lucky ones who got free tickets. For the unsuccessful ones it is still possible to buy them in advance and claim the discount of £4.
Don’t forget that you have only until tonight if you want to enter the draw to win a pair of tickets to the Cruise Show which opens at Olympia next weekend. To enter all you have to do is send an e-mail with FREE CRUISE SHOW TICKETS in the subject line and send it to emma@escapeevents.co.uk. Over the 26th and 27th of March you will be able to visit most of the leading cruise operators in the world and see what is available. Last year,
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Yesterday I went to the Daily Telegraph sponsored Cruise show at the NEC in Birmingham. So did thousands of you. And even more. At times you couldn’t see the carpet for people. The same, I am told, happened on Saturday. Try buying a cup of tea? Long queues were at those places as well as the stands.
So the organisers should have been pretty happy with the turnout. The exhibitors seemed to have been. At least in one sense. They were rushed off their feet and had little time to sit down. Brochures were being collected by the armload but were visitors just collectors or were they buying? Had they just come to enter the free competitions because just about every stand was offering a prize draw for a cruise?
5 lucky couples (or families since under 16’s are free) can win tickets to Cruise being held at Birmingham’s NEC on the weekend of the 16th/17th of October. The Daily Telegraph presented show features 37 exhibitors which, between them, cover most of the cruises that are available. Whether you have never been before or are a seasoned traveller, CRUISE will have something for everyone.
To win a pair of these tickets just email sue@escapeevents.co.uk with your name, address and e-mail address (so she can let you know you’ve won!) with the all-important CD-Traveller mentioned in the subject line. So that there will be time to get the tickets to you, the closing date is Monday 11th of October at midday so you haven’t a lot of time.
Last year was a record year for the cruise industry in Britain. Nearly 1.5 million people went on a cruise up 11% over the previous year and of these, 577,000 cruised from a UK port.Traditionally cruises are thought of as exotic trips into warm climates. Lazy days at sea with the sun beating down as another gin and tonic was washed down. Some maybe, but today it is seen as an alternative to the all-inclusive holiday. After all, what other holiday can you take where
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