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

In North America they have launched the Indy Pass which is multi-resort ski pass covering 34 independently owned resorts across the continent.

All we might say to our British clients is: ‘Keep calm and ski on!’

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.

Sri Lankan author, film producer and hip hop artist, Ruby Lovell, shares her travel highs and lows

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

Just About Travel tells you what’s hot and what’s not 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.

Isabelle Eyherabide of Biarritz Tourism on why French the seaside resort is an ideal destination at any time of year

Travel blogger, Nick Morris, shares his travel highs and lows

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

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

Travel journalist and ski instructor, Sarah Tijou, talks life on the slopes

Rob Freeman – the UK’s leading authority on skiing in Austria and author of the Snowfinder guidebook on Austria – talks life on the slopes

Whether you’re in the process of finding your ski legs or a wannabe downhill champion, the Austrian resort of Obergurgl is where it’s at writes Kaye Holland

Get ready, get set, ski! Kaye Holland heads to the Italian Alps to lose her skiing virginity

For some years the skiing market, as evidenced by UK and Irish bookings, has been in decline. That may be changing.

In the Italian Alps, Livigno, is one of those places where you are virtually assured of snow. It has had tons of the white stuff already this autumn, 83cms on the mountain at the moment.

Three prizes to be won!

As ski enthusiasts look to the new season, Anna Maria Espsater tells us everything we need to know about Europe’s ski scene

Europe or America? For Megan, the overcrowded Alps can’t compete with the winter sports experience that can be had the other side of the Atlantic. Here she reveals her four favourite US ski resorts exclusively with CD-Traveller readers


Still planning on squeezing in a skiing trip this season? Forget the French Alps and seek out Saint Lary and Font-Romeu in The Pyrenees, instead. Adrian Shedden reveals why these new kids on the block might just be THE family alternative to the likes of Val D’Isere, Chamonix and St Anton (aka the established Alpine Old Guard)

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month, Spain and skiing holidays both get a big thumbs up, but readers are advised to think twice before booking a bungee jump in Zambia or getting a tattoo in Bali

As a country Spain conjures up images of sun, sangria and siestas. But there Spain is looking to become known for a fourth S – skiing.

Chris Gill, author of Where to Ski and Snowboard 2012, gives us a guide to Italy’s Selva ski resort

Chalet I or chalet not? Chris Gill, co-editor of Where to Ski and Snowboard 2012, names the resorts where your pound will go further

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month, we’ll be booking the bus to Scotland while crossing our fingers that the situation improves quickly in Cairo

The priciest ski resorts are around three times as expensive as the cheapest, says the new 2012 edition of Where to Ski and Snowboard – the world’s leading guidebook to ski resorts.