[ December 10, 2011 10:00 am to December 11, 2011 5:00 pm. ] Over 150 different breeds competing for the prestigious title of ?Best in Show? on Sunday 11 December 2011.Terrier, Gundog & Hound breeds may be seen on the Saturday with the Toy, Utility, Working & Pastoral breeds on Sunday. Approx 100 Trade Stands selling a variety of goods ? both doggy and human!The show has a [...]

[ December 3, 2011 10:00 am to December 12, 2011 5:00 pm. ] Dont miss the third London Chess Classic from 3-12 December at Olympia Conference Centre.Olympia, Londonhttp://www.eco.co.uk/events/type/consumer/Olympia, London

[ December 6, 2011 10:00 am to December 7, 2011 5:00 pm. ] Design your future is all about the creative arts and associated career avenues from 6-7 December at Olympia.Olympia, Londonhttp://www.eco.co.uk/events/type/consumer/Olympia, London

[ December 2, 2011 10:00 am to December 7, 2011 5:00 pm. ] Discover the ultimate girls day out featuring over 500 shopping brands, celebrity presenters, live performances, fast paced catwalk shows and inspirational hair and beauty demonstrations. NEC, Birminghamhttp://www.clothesshowlive.com/NEC, Birmingham

CD-Traveller came a long way in 2011. All due to you. If you don’t read what we write, it becomes just an ego trip (and that was suggested in the early days!) so it’s important to know what you want to read.

A Welsh village is hoping to woo cash rich Chinese tourists by building a £50 million purpose built holiday resort, where signs will be in Mandarin and staff will be familiar with Chinese customs.

Allan Pickett – head chef at recently revamped Canary Wharf restaurant, Plateau – shares four fabuously festive recipes that are perfect for entertaining this New Year’s Eve, with CD-Traveller readers

No, not on clothes or beds or sofas. I’m talking about the holiday sales. At the moment airlines, hotels, travel agents and tour operators have them in abundance. But will they make us book?

Now that the chocolates, pudding and mince pies have been eaten, it’s time to get back to work. Or is it?!

Allan Pickett – head chef at recently revamped Canary Wharf restaurant, Plateau – shares four fabuously festive recipes that are perfect for entertaining this New Year’s Eve, with CD-Traveller readers

As a country Spain conjures up images of sun, sangria and siestas. But there Spain is looking to become known for a fourth S – skiing.

Now Christmas is over, do you have an armful of brochures, spend hours in travel agents or watch endless TV ads? According to Conrad Advertising 50% of people who had booked a holiday last year looked at TripAdvisor as part of their research.

Lyn gives us the low-down on inspirational Italian rehab clinic , San Patrignano

Who thinks of Boxing day as an important tourism day? To many, today’s activities are linked to shopping, sport or recovery from the quantities eaten and drunk the day before.

Cruise veteran, Viv, reveals why cruise ships are sometime forced to change their itinerary

Bethlehem may be a huge religious tourism destination this weekend but during 2010 the number of people visiting destinations at home has grown because of the sheer number of churches, cathedrals, abbeys and sites we have.

Special, gumdrop-enhanced avionics installed in Rudolph’s red nose will make it 10 times brighter, allowing the elves to track Santa One even during the type of heavy snowfall expected this Christmas.

To all our readers near and far, a very Merry Christmas

ABTA has suggested that watch we watch on TV or at the cinemas will have an effect on where we might go on holiday.

It would seem that everyday someone somewhere is opening a coffee shop. Forget the fact that the UK is traditionally renowned for tea drinkers. Now in every shopping centre and on every high street, a coffee chain store is lurking.

By the end of next year the government intends banning excessive/hidden fees charged by airlines (indeed by any company) where payment is made by credit or debit cards. On the face of it this is good news. Look deeper and it might be so great.
Why my scepticism?

Yesterday we reported how a record number of Brits are spending Christmas overseas despite the economic woes.

On Wednesday, the European Court of Justice decided that all airlines flying in and out of the EU would have to pay for carbon emissions from January 1st next year. Make a wild guess who’ll end up paying?

What are we to make of the decision announced this morning that IAG (the owner of BA and Iberia) has agreed terms with Lufthansa to buy bmi for £172.5 million?

Yet again the time approaches when rail fares rise again. We moan, we complain, the media highlight how much annual season ticket costs but rarely do we consider the effects on tourism.

We may be living in the worst economic crisis since the 1920s but that hasn’t stopped 4.25 million Brits from packing their bags and heading overseas this Christmas, with the peak travel days predicted to be today and tomorrow (Dec 22 and 23).

The Travel Channel’s Sarah Cawood on staycations, the Scottish highlands and why she loves lying on a beach

Later today we’ll get to know the outcome of Transport for London’s high court challenge against a proposed tube drivers’ strike on Boxing Day