Letter from London: cycling capital of the world?

“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.

A day in… Dundee

Dundee is transforming its waterfront, to draw visitors in. Adrian looks at what there is for the short break tripper

Passenger Focus

From the website

“We are the independent passenger watchdog. Our mission is to get the best deal for passengers.

We are an independent public body set up by the Government to protect the interests of passengers.”

The best of Benidorm

The Spanish resort of Benidorm has all the ingredients for a perfect week-end beach break. Your definitive guide starts here…

Forty two and the meaning of historic Scotland

The Meaning of Life may be 42 and the question forgotten according to the author, Douglas Adams but Historic Scotland hasn’t forgotten what 42 means. It is the number of its attractions that will be open completely free to us next weekend.

Essex and Local Tourism

Yesterday I spent part of the day in the Brentwood Centre.Why?Because each year on one day, there is held the Tourism & Leisure Show (www.TourismandLeisureShow.co.uk) which is organised by Essex Tourism Association even to the extent that they lay on a free bus to collect you from Shenfield station and ferry you on a Clintona [...]

Where the experts holiday: Michel L Goget

Michel L Goget, general manager of the Ritz-Carlton, Sanya – the first Ritz-Carlton resort in China – helmed Ritz-Carlton hotels in Atlanta, Michigan and Virginia, before heading to Hainan. Here, the Washington resident whose 20 years of hospitality experience spans seven countries, talks to CD Traveller about Australia, Alain DuCasse and why Sanya – China’s only tropical beachfront city – is fast becoming the ‘Miami of Asia’.