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The initial list of entrants for the UK City of Culture was announced last week.

The ‘North of England City Experience’ will encourage travel between Leeds, Hull, Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle and Gateshead once safe to do so.

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The news that Hull attracted just 20% of visitors from the rest of the UK during the year when it was the UK City of Culture is disappointing.

Just About Travel tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world

It’s been a busy year of travelling and it’s time to take stock. Here Just About Travel contributor and travel enthusiast, Kaye Holland, shares some of her favourite destinations from 2017

Now that Coventry has been awarded the title what impact can the award bring to the city?

Just About Travel tells you what’s hot in the travel world right now

Stonehenge, Club 55, Star Wars and medical assistance abroad compete with children’s attitudes to holidays in Adrian’s column this week. And there is the almost obligatory Southern rail story.

As the remake of the 1970s sit com Dad’s Army hits the big screen, eagle-eyed cinema goers may spot that the fictional Walmington-on- Sea is now the Yorkshire town of Bridlington.

In summary, then, in alphabetical order, here are our top tips for 2016: Anguilla, Cardigan Bay, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Germany, Hull, Peru, South Korea, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

Street painting, scarec rows and the atrocity in Sousse are some of the thoughts occupying Adrian this week.

Adrian finds out that more of us are holidaying abroad this year over last year but still plans to head to Cilgerran for the coracle championships next weekend! OK, he admits it – he lives there – but he’ll still be going for the fun!

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month it’s good news for Hull and the cruising industry. Not so for New Delhi…

Each year, Just about Travel asks its writers for their highlights and tips for the coming year. Because we are individuals just like all our readers, few ever agree with each other. That is partially because they get inspired by where they have been just like you do. In alphabetical order then, here are the destinations that our writers are tipping for this year as spots that you should seriously consider visiting,

The announcement that Hull has been named UK City of Culture for 2017 was greeted with adulation in the city.

No, this isn’t a story about a wi-fi connected attraction that allows social media nuts to send snappy, inane comments about walking on a bridge. This is much more interesting. This bridge has bird noises!

Adrian explores Hull, the former fishing and whaling industry which has become a mecca for shopping