Growing Your Own Business is your opportunity to learn from experts, network with your peers and suppliers and find out how best to develop your business from 16-17 March 2012 at Olympia National Hall.
Olympia, London
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Olympia, London
Frederic continues his monthly round-up of the art, cuture and heritage scene in France
One of the appeals of Menton on the French Riviera is the largest museum dedicated to the works of Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), a famous French artist who died fifty years ago. Frederic exolores the museum and the three towns forever linked with his work.
The years of fear and loathing are over: Cambodia has been catapulted onto the world stage as a tourist destination and is slowly rebuilding for the future. Andy Booth, owner of travel company ABOUTAsia whose profits support the education of children in rural Cambodia, gives us the local low-down on the country’s capital: Siem Reap
This is the name of a book that new arrivals to this South Pacific country can get when they arrive. To most of us, Vanuatu may be just a name. Don’t think just of beaches. That wouldn’t fill a 167 page book!
Last week, Visit Chester & Cheshire held their annual tourism awards. There were 15 categories and Tatton Park won the award for best visitor attraction of the year. It isn’t the first time it has been successful, this being the third time this century. Receiving over 750,000 visitors each year, some of the reasons for its likely success are that it combines 50 acres of gardens, (out of 1,000 in all) a mansion, a park and it is easy to get to from two motorways. They also have a large number of events operating throughout the year and you can see those by looking at CD-Traveller’s event pages.
Of course, they weren’t the only winners. The award for the best tourism experience went to the shark dive at the Blue Planet Aquarium near Ellesmere Port. Sharks have never been one of my favourite things so I am one of the exceptions since the Aquarium even gets large numbers voting in its favourite shark category. (Bella the Black Tip Reef Shark won last years with 3,000 plus votes!)
We have Visit Britain and Tourism Ireland to attract people to the UK and Ireland. Domestically Visit England and the more regional groups like East of England Tourism Board then attract people to smaller areas. Next in the pyramid comes county tourism groups and then finally cities or towns. But persuading the top of the pyramid, Visit England say, that your village deserves support to attract visitors as well can be a little difficult. I thought I would let you see how a small part of Australia handles this.
If you fly and have to change planes in a country and then fly out of it, you usually go into a transit lounge. You don’t need to go through border controls or customs. But you do if you transit in the US and what a hassle it can be.
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