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Australia accommodates everyone’s idea of a perfect holiday -from four-year-olds to grannies, reports Pippa Jacks
Ahead of the Golden Gate Bridge’s 75th birthday on May 27, San Francisco has never looked more golden writes Kaye Holland. Read her guide to the city with its head in the clouds, here
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The Department for Transport’s aim is transport that works for everyone. This means a transport system which balances the needs of the economy, the environment and society.
Singapore has often been viewed as a plane refuelling stop or place to change planes. How many people stop off and explore the island?
That preconception may be about to change as the Singapore Tourist Board launches a campaign called “Your Singapore.” From the press release at the end of April you wouldn’t know what Singapore offered as it was couched in marketing speak and little else.
Although launched in the beginning of March, it is only this week that it is being rolled out across Europe. It was still one of those Far Eastern destinations where the occasional free stopover was thrown in to encourage you, as you flew on to Australia or New Zealand. Then, they encouraged you to get out of the airport for a few hours in between flights to see the sights. Now, “Your Singapore” is pushing the idea of shortbreaks.
2009 was a year of belt tightening. We may not have gone abroad in such large numbers but holidays remained necessities. There was a drop of 15% in those of us holidaying abroad. So says our Office of National Statistics (ONS) via their annual Travel Trends publication and goes to confirm –officially- what we knew already.
Headlines in the press yesterday spoke of the fastest fall since the 1970’s and how overseas trips had grown by an average of 4% per year since 1974 up until 2009. But how accurately does this record what you and I did? Did 314,000 fewer of us go Turkey last year? And does it matter anyway?
I’m quite fond of books. True, I buy more than I read but my excuse is that I save them up to take with me when I go on holiday. In a week I can go through 3 or 4 and there is something appealing about sitting in the sun with a book in one [...]
More and more of us are taking to the water for our holiday: the number of UK passengers cruising this year is expected to rise by another eight per cent to a record, 1.77 million. But cruises aren’t all about the Caribbean, cheesy cabaret, crystal chandeliers and casinos. If you’re after an adventure, why not consider an Arctic cruise?
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