We asked you to send us those road signs, shop names and pieces of public art that, no matter how hard we try to be mature about it, end up being great visual jokes.
Promised a close encounter with an Indian maneater, my party of tiger tourists has been on the road from Jaipur since before dawn, playing chicken with lorry drivers and marauding cows, as our driver races to reach the gates of Ranthambore National Park before sunrise.
Sabre’s ex-European head Martin Cowley is joining the board of payment and settlement solutions firm Conferma.
The travel industry has been urged to embrace open source technology by GDS Amadeus which says it is 12 to 18 months away from completing its switch away from closed proprietary systems.
Scottish flight comparison website Skyscanner has been ranked as one of the UK’s fastest growing private technology companies.
A campaign has been launched across the Tasman in a bid to attract more Australians to spend time in the North Island.Over the next month, commuters passing through one Sydney's Town Hall train station would be confronted by images...
My favourite way to travel is to live. To live in a new place and become a local is the only way to really experience a new part of the world.
Tourism to Berlin is booming as never before and filling the debt-ridden city's coffers with much-needed cash, but not all Berliners are cheering the influx of visitors.
After a while, the cabin window begins to resemble a cinema screen, with the wilderness outside a film projected for an audience of one. Lying in bed and rocking gently with the motion of the train, a nudge of the toe is all it takes to roll back the shutters and begin a picture show of cottonwoods and misty mountains. It is a grey day, full of mystery. There are power lines tangled in the trees, an abandoned blue boat glimpsed fleetingly on the Thompson River. "Two coyotes!" a young voice yells in the corridor, running down the length of the carriage and slamming a door.
Golf is emerging as one of the strongest and most stable travel markets as an influx of new players and changing travel patterns among existing ones builds on a trend that began almost two decades ago.
Vanuatu is a popular holiday destination in the Pacific
with a bit of a difference.
Some of the world's rarest penguins are putting on a show for delighted visitors to Milford Sound.
There are quite a few options; the simplest is to decide how much you are going to spend and go to your bank and take out that amount already converted into the currency of the country you are visiting. Of course, the big drawback with this idea is that it is very unsafe for lots
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Advice for accessing travel money abroad
Before I start let me confirm that I’m not a qualified financial or travel insurance adviser, and don’t pretend to be, so the information in this guide is written from my own experiences, and you should always speak to a qualified travel insurance broker or adviser before you buy. Apart from covering items that may
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Independent travel insurance advice
As a travel consumer blogger I receive a lot of emails from consumers asking how to complain about a holiday company, so I put together this guide in the hope that it will help people. Some companies are better than others when handling customer complaints, in an ideal world, every company would have their complaints
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How to complain about a travel company
The tour I had joined for the day arrived in Chinchero, Peru, at sunset.
A hotel haunted by a ghost who likes tall men is for sale.Guests at the Foveaux Hotel in Bluff regularly claim a bedroom door has been opened by a female ghost.Owner Nikki Little believed the ghost was of Mary Cameron, the original...
Raglan's waves are the bread and butter of the local business community, with surfers from all over the world travelling to the Waikato town to ride its famous left-hand breaks.Charlie Young, who runs the Karioi Lodge and Raglan...
Amadeus unveiled its IT Consulting and Solutions division to representatives of 90 travel management companies and leisure travel agents in London on Friday as it seeks to move away from being solely a Global Distribution System (GDS).
TripAdvisor was the highest-placed online brand in a consumer survey of most-influential company names in travel.
