Whether you’re a novice or seasoned traveller, Paris will steal your heart. Each month, Frederic – our Paris correspondent – gives us the low-down on what to see and do in the accessible French capital

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month, we’re loving the sound of the Strictly themed cruise and booking breaks in the Big Apple and Burma, while crossing our fingers that the situation improves quickly in Cairo

Small, friendly and good to look at with an appealing mix of old buildings and youthful energy, why not make Boston your next mini-break?

If past years (or recessions) have sucked up your travel budget, plan smart and get more bang for your buck in 2012

At the World Travel Market, the USA unveiled a new logo. It is made up of a series of lightly coloured dots or stars that form the initials of the country. It is a soft and slightly woolly image that doesn’t seem to fit. And especially not with New York which bristles with brashness, energy and a disdain for under achievement.

Remember voting for which travel companies you thought were the best in the British Travel Awards? Altogether, 700,000 votes were received. Last Wednesday the winners were announced.

This week the capital is going crazy over Peruvian food thanks to the Cookbook Cafe at InterContinental London Park Lane’s ‘Flavours of Peru’ – a week-long gourmet food festival celebrating contemporary Peruvian cuisine, in association with the Embassy of Peru.

I happened to see the Sarah Jessica Parker film, I Don’t Know How She Does It, last night. The film, based on Alison Pearson’s best selling novel, was shot in Boston and had the effect of making me want to book a break in Boston.

CD Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. It’s a good month for Brazil and British Airways, while fans of Star Trek are also celebrating

News and views from CD Traveller’s China correspondent

CD-Traveller mentioned a little while ago that British visitors were returning to the US after declining numbers over the last few years. One of the reasons we go is for the appeal of its heritage, according to a study recently released by their government.

Hands up if have been saving your air miles up for free flights? You’re not alone – the CD Traveller has been known to use miles to enjoy paying for flight fares to destinations both near and far.

You might have been misled over the last few days if you saw stories about the Statue of Liberty closing. It’s doing no such thing. What is happening is that the interior of the statue will close so that new lifts can be installed and the fire standards will be upgraded.

New York is awash with restaurants. And delis. And take-aways. You’re spoilt for choice. Even if you don’t go into any of the stores you can still get food on the street corners from hot-dog vendors and pretzel sellers. So it’s nice, once-in-a-while, to have something different.

The City of Gold is yet to go green. CD Traveller reports

CD Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world

Whether you’re staycation-ing or vacationing, CD Traveller tells you what’s happening in the travel world

CD Traveller reader, Rachel Xereb, talks us through her favorite holiday destinations

Last week it was the North Carolinians who named UK visitors as the ones they were targeting. They were visiting travel agents urging them to push North Carolina with its two direct links to the state (Gatwick-Charlotte and Heathrow to Raleigh-Durham) as the place British visitors should holiday in.
Now New York has followed with a worldwide campaign called “See More, Be More. This is New York City”. Not the snappiest of headlines but it is supposed to “reflect the feeling of personal transformation that lingers long after a trip to NY ends,” according to the creative head of NYC & Company, Willy Wong. Or to put it another way, good holiday memories.

CD Traveller reader, Ann Woods, takes us on a tour of her five favourite destinations

The new Sex And The City release means New York is hot right now. A flight over the Atlantic not an option? You can still get a bite of the Big Apple…here’s how

The Big Apple has been mesmerising visitors for years. Its pleasures are eternal but the particulars of where to stay, eat and play are ever in flux. CD Traveller breaks out their little black book…

At this time of year a lot of destinations don’t bother to try and attract tourists. They think that people are only interested in skiing or winter sun breaks. We have the consumer travel shows like Destinations and the Holiday Shows but not a lot more than that.
But that doesn’t apply if you are New York.
They have another way to entice you to visit their city during January and February. We are one week into what is called the NYC Restaurant Week

New Year’s Eve and the first day of the New Year have become tourist attractions in their own right. Television has magnified it by capturing the moment when the New Year begins in a number of places. Around lunchtime on New Years Eve, the new year is heralded in Sydney in Australia with a huge firework display and winds down about 24 hours later with the display from Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. In between, there is the traditional gathering in London at Trafalgar Square, in Princes Street in Edinburgh, the swinging of fireballs in Stonehaven near Aberdeen (quite a sight if you’ve never seen it) and the counting in of the new year in Times Square in New York. As well as that a large number of towns and cities such as Nottingham and Carlisle will have firework displays.

British Airways has announced its list of 10 destinations that it thinks will influence you to decide where to go on your holidays next year. In any list like this you have to bear a couple of things in mind, the first being that BA flies to all the destinations it suggests and therefore that may have influenced the list. Secondly it is subjective. We don’t know how these places got on the list. Probably some “expert” decided or it coincided with a new or improved service to that destination by BA. I could be completely wrong there but, as I said, who knows. Still it is interesting to se whether our ideas match those of BA.

The list is Cape Town, Istanbul, Las Vegas, Vancouver, Punta Cana (Dominican Republic), Dubrovnik, New York, Stockholm, the Maldives and Delhi.