Upton Country Park, Bournemouth
Adrian explores Belfast in a year when the city majors on its links with the ill-fated Titanic.
Dundee is transforming its waterfront, to draw visitors in. Adrian looks at what there is for the short break tripper
As we celebrate France on their national holiday we begin a week of stories on France starting with a brief introduction to each of the 22 French mainland regions and Corsica.
Today is the start of British Tourism Week. There are hundreds of events over the coming week, most starting on Monday but today is the big launch day with the follow up top last year’s very successful lighted beacons which stretched the length of Hadrian’s Wall. This year it is the party on the pier and it all begins in Weston-super-Mare.
That was one of the comments from the chairman of the National Showcaves Centre which won Best Attraction at the Swansea Bay Tourism Awards Last Week. He made the comment in an interview to the South Wales Evening Post.
What did he mean?
That, like detergent, the more people see adverts and stories about a destination or attraction the more chance of people going there.
It’s that time of the year when a small town of about 1800 attracts the book readers of the world to itself. As Saturday’s “Western Mail” put it “It is now almost inconceivable that a leading world writer would not have heard of the book festival which annually transforms this Welsh town”Attendance is already up [...]
Boston may look like a mini Manhattan but the capital of Massachusetts has a charm of its own. Boston resident, Johanna Wightman, gives us the low down on one of America’s most enjoyable cities
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