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

In a week in which a bird wanted to view impressionist paintings and Venice segregated tourists from locals, Adrian wraps up the smaller stories of the week

With so many destinations recording increased British visitor numbers, tenerife is trying to attract even more of us with its medical tourism promotion!

Norstat announced the winners of its Destination Satisfaction Index and the overall winner was Barbados. Second was the Seychelles and third, Bermuda.

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

Adrian sums up some of the smaller stories of the week.

I am back from Berlin. Just. I managed to get out just before the airport security staff strike began. here’s a round-up of some of the week’s happenings

No beer or sausages on Friday as the Germans try to persuade Adrian and others to write about Germany. What is the world coming to?

Would it be an indulgence to fly on a seaplane from Malé to your resort?

Adrian looks at the possibility of having one visa in the future to cover seven central American countries, the continuing trials of Mr Platt and how easy it was to take down Norwich Airports website.

Operators have a growing range of packages geared to families; from the most adventurous tour to relaxing holiday clubs. Letting someone else do the legwork for you will ensure your holiday is worry-free – as long as you make the right choice.

Travelzoo says that three out of four British holidaymakers are actively avoiding Islamic countries following recent acts of terrorism.

Sheep racing on Sark, Henry VIII and the annual World Eskimo-Indian Olympic Games are a few of the evnts that captured Adrian’s eye this week.

Bournemouth and Blackpool took some knocks his week, Israel put on display recently found antiquities and where is the tallest Christmas tree in the UK?

Deciding he hasn’t enough money to buy his own hideaway in the Maldives, Adrian settles on some other upcoming events.

Just About Travel tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This April, all eyes are on London, Los Angeles and Austin…

For 34 years Kuoni has been undertaking it’s annual Travel Trends Report which is a reasonable pointer to those destinations that appeal to those able to trave long-haul.

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month, it’s a great time to visit Poland or the pandas in Chengdu but Botswana is being boycotted

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world right now

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month business class passengers, Barcelona FC and boozy Brits are all generating media inches

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month Croydon and coach tours of the M25 are proving (inexplicably) popular

What do you like to do on holiday? Diving and trekking Where did you last travel? Burma Do you know where you’re going next? Maldives Of all the places you’ve been to, what was your favourite and why? Vietnam in 1990 – as it was so untouched by mainstream tourism Which destination do you wish to travel to but haven’t been there yet? Antarctica In your own area, what would you recommend tourists see that isn’t in the travel guides? Come to Adventure Travel Live
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British Airways has announced its list of 10 destinations that it thinks will influence you to decide where to go on your holidays next year. In any list like this you have to bear a couple of things in mind, the first being that BA flies to all the destinations it suggests and therefore that may have influenced the list. Secondly it is subjective. We don’t know how these places got on the list. Probably some “expert” decided or it coincided with a new or improved service to that destination by BA. I could be completely wrong there but, as I said, who knows. Still it is interesting to se whether our ideas match those of BA.

The list is Cape Town, Istanbul, Las Vegas, Vancouver, Punta Cana (Dominican Republic), Dubrovnik, New York, Stockholm, the Maldives and Delhi.

The Maldives has been in the news quite a lot recently. Their cabinet, you might remember, held a cabinet meeting under water to highlight the effects of climate change. When you think of the Maldives the first thought is of a luxury holiday location. Now the tourism authority is trying to encourage 3 and 4 star hotels so that there is more on offer to suit every pocket. Independent travellers like backpackers are also welcome and will find it easier to get around as new infrastructure projects are completed.

We hear a lot about the effects of travel on the amount of carbon emissions created. Being sceptical along the lines of Tom Fuller who writes a really interesting environmental column in the Los Angeles Examiner (freely available via the net), I am not an ardent proponent but neither do I believe that life stays the same. There is another climate change meeting coming up in Copenhagen shortly and Fiji has rather stolen some of the thunder by declaring that, as an entire nation, they will become a low carbon destination.

Tourists mean money. Tourists mean economic growth so in the straightened times we find ourselves in, some countries are doing their utmost to get us to visit them.In the Middle East, neighbours are trying to clone Dubai’s success. Oman aims to quadruple the number of tourists visiting there to 12 million by 2020 and has therefore announced it is spending $10 billion on airport expansion, 10 new resort developments and a major convention centre. Will Oman look like Dubai does now in a few years?
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The Guardian ran a story yesterday that was widely picked up by press around the world.Although there seems no confirmation on the website of the new president, Mohammed Nasheen, The Guardian says that because of climate change, the islanders will start looking for land elsewhere that they can move to if climate change causes their islands to be flooded.Most of the 1200 plus islands ( about 570 miles south of India) that make up the Maldives are only about 4 and a half feet (1.5
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