Dundee is transforming its waterfront, to draw visitors in. Adrian looks at what there is for the short break tripper
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This weekend is time for the York Roman Festival.Although the festival is only about 6 years old, the Romans had a strong link to York or Eboricum as they called it, deftly turning the local name for the area into a Roman one. Constantine the Great was at York and, over the years, archaeologists and [...]
“I believe that the cyclised city is the civilised city”, declares ebullient Boris Johnson. Love him or hate him, London’s mayor is – not so quietly –revolutionising cycling in the capital.
Dundee is transforming its waterfront, to draw visitors in. Adrian looks at what there is for the short break tripper
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Frederic starts his four part story of a trip on one of the luxury trains of the world, the Golden Chariot with a desription of the train and his journey.
No the headline isn’t a typing error; this is the new slogan to entice us to travel to Slovenia. Will it work? Ask in a year’s time and we’ll find out. That’s a problem with finding quick pithy lines to help you remember. Australia came out with “where the bloody hell are you?” which certainly generated the publicity if not always the numbers.
Whatever slogan is chosen, about 2.2 million visitors have gone to Slovenia this year and, by year end, it looks as though overall tourism will have dropped by only about 1% making Slovenia a success story in many people’s eyes. The UK is the fifth largest provider of visitors but to the capital, Ljubljana, we are the third
You might remember that CD-Traveller (23rd November 2011) mentioned that Visit London looked as though it would lose all its funding because nobody seemed to remember it when they created budgets to come into operation after the demise of its paymaster, the London Development Agency (LDA). As Denis facetiously commented at the time on our website, “makes you proud to be a Londoner.” A month on and Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, has ridden to the rescue finding £14 million pounds per annum for the next four years. Except it’s not quite that clear.
The funding is for a new, yet to be named, body that will merge three existing organisiations, Visit London, Think London (apparently this attracts inward investment) and Study London. (attracts students to London universities and colleges)
Our Beijing correspondent on the problems facing the capital’s vegetarians
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