Posts Tagged ‘ Tourism ’

Neither Cameron nor May has given any of the culture secretaries or tourism ministers long enough to understand their brief.

Kaye Holland can’t cook, won’t cook

The Night Tube dream has morphed into a nightmare, says Kaye Holland

Five years down the line, David Cameron has returned to the subject of tourism and we may all benefit.

Luis Rubén Cuevas, director of Mexican travel magazine – Travel Times – talks travel

Author and entrepreneur Colin Wright has spent the last four years travelling full time. Here the 28 year old shares his life in travel with CD-Traveller readers

The Big Apple’s mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, and NYC & Company announced at International Pow Wow (the travel industry’s premier international marketplace and the largest generator of travel to the United States) in Los Angeles, a new goal to generate US$70 billion in economic impact from travel and tourism by 2015

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

In the aftermath of the Costa Concordia cruise ship tragedy on January 13, the announcements by government ministers from Turkey and Greece that they are introducing measures to give cruising in the Mediterranean a boost couldn’t have come at a better time.

You’d think Westminster would want to encourage people to visit the capital during the 2012 Olympics (and help boost Britain’s economy), but the evidence suggests otherwise.

Since the last general election, issues about tourism have come up more than I seem to remember in the past. A typical debate was one covering Yorkshire that happened last month.

So David “just call me Dave” Cameron has taken time out of issuing warnings about the very real fear of a double dip recession, to launch a new tourism campaign. Created by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the drive is called ‘GREAT’ Britain and is aimed at maximising the economic potential of the London Olympic Games whilst simultaneously using it to promote Britain abroad as place to visit and do business.

There is a little railway line that runs from Reading to Gatwick Airport via Guildford and Dorking. Going through countryside for most of the journey, passengers can stare out of the windows and watch the meadows, traffic as it veers by roads and sheep with advertising on their sides.Yes you read correctly and no it isn’t a late April fool’s day joke.After you leave Dorking on the way to Reigate you will pass a field where sheep have been daubed with an advertising promotion for
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I don’t like shopping.Millions do and one of the top listed things for people to do when they travel is to go shopping. Look at the numbers that used to go to New York in the early winter to take advantage of the weak dollar to Christmas shop. Look at the success of Christmas markets up and down the country. (Birmingham is said to have the largest German Christmas market outside Germany)But its not only for Christmas. When a big shopping centre opens, when outlet
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