This year it is the 25th Anniversary of the Jorvik Festival in York.
www.jorvik-viking-centre.com.
Ahead of the 2012 Olympic/Paralympic Games, actress Rhona Foulis reveals why she makes for Mildred’s and what she would do if she were Mayor for a day
Make the most of your hard-earned cash with Stephen Baker’s 25 top holiday moneysaving tips
From the website:
“Formed in 1950 by 22 leading travel companies, ABTA – The Travel Association – now represents over 5,000 travel agencies and more than 900 tour operations, throughout the British Isles. Our Members range from small, specialist tour operators and independent travel agencies through to publicly-listed companies and household names; from call centres to internet booking services to high street shops. All of them carry the ABTA logo, which means choice, value, and high levels of service. ”
If the disruption of flying puts you off then consider the Isle of Man as you holiday location this year or at least a place for a short break. By now most of you will probably have seen the TV advertising campaign that the tourist board has been running. Timed for that traditional period between Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve, the promotion aims to get you to their website (www.isleofman.com) where you can find more about the island than a single ad campaign can show you. For those of us in the south west, the south east, London, Wales, East Anglia and most of Scotland, we won’t see the ads for the tourist board is targeting those primarily those areas that can get to the ferry terminals easily. Or in the case of the Channel Isles, the airports.
Yesterday we reported how a record number of Brits are spending Christmas overseas despite the economic woes.
It is no surprise to anyone that Britons are travelling abroad less this year but some countries are feeling the pinch that we have stayed away from their countries last year as well.Thailand has announced that they had 50,000 less UK visitors than they had in 2007. Nonetheless 700,000 of us made the long journey [...]
Turned off by chain hotels? Bored with ‘boutique’? Bettina Kowalewski, author of Bed in a tree – a gorgeous coffee table book published by DK Eyewitness Travel about the world’s craziest, quirkiest places to stay– suggests provides some inspiring alternatives from an actual bed in a tree in South Africa to a hanging eco-sphere in Canada, a giant suitcase in Germany and glass igloo in Finland!
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