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This year’s Eurovision contest will be held in Belgrade, and the tickets are now on sale. For the first two days, tickets can only be purchased in Serbia, but from January 31 they can be bought online from anywhere in the world.
Tickets are only available in packages until March 17 when they can purchased for […]

The new Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 will be fingerprinting domestic passengers. The new terminal is due to open in March, after which passengers on British Airways flights to Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester or Newcastle will have to undergo extended security measures.
This due to the fact that the new terminal is one big departure lounge, where […]

The British backpackers travelling around the world on a budget carry £450 worth of clothes and necessities. In total, there is £1.7 billion in the bags of the British backpackers at the moment.
The high value of their bags is due to the dependence on technology. Phones, digital cameras, mp3 players and even laptops are now […]

Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony and other celebrities have been photographed as famous Disney characters by Annie Leibovitz. The photographs are taken as a part of Disney’s Year of a Million Dreams celebration.
At the end of last year, Rachel Weisz was shot as Snow White, and Julie Andrews was portrayed as the fairy from Pinocchio. […]

The ever booming tourism industry brought a record number of visitors to Singapore in 2007. In total 10.3 million people arrived in Singapore, slightly more than the expected 10.2 million arrivals.
Nearly 500,000 Brits took a holiday in Singapore, another record number. The UK is in the top ten visitor markets to Singapore.
Singapore Tourism […]

German naturists will be able to fly in the nude for the first time with the launch of new flights in Germany catering especially for naturists.
The first nude flights will be on July 5 taking off from Erfut in south-east Germany going to the island of Usedom in the Baltic Sea.
The company running […]

Virgin Galactic has unveiled the designs of its two spaceships, which will offer the first commercial space flights. WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) is about 60% complete and Virgin expects to be able to make test flights next summer.
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipOne flew to space three times successfully, and won $10 million Ansari X Price. The company has […]

Two out of three Australians are members of the Mile High Club, or would like to join. 1,110 people answered the survey, which asked if people would want to have a sexual encounter during a flight. Almost half answered yes, and 12% already had done so.
The survey was conducted by Totaltravel.com.
Last year Singapore airlines […]

Gran Canaria has launched its biggest ever ad campaign in the UK. The 600,000 Euro marketing campaign aims to reaffirm the islands reputation in the UK as a great, fashionable holiday destination.
It’s the best time of year to focus on getting the Brits interested in planning a holiday, as the weather is at its worst […]

Tourist arrivals in Maldives rose 12.7% last year compared to 2006, a much higher increase of holidaymakers than expected. 675,889 people arrived on the island; the highest number of tourists coming from the UK (125,158), according to the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation.
Maldivian tourism officials say the high increase of tourists is due […]

Virgin America airlines and Sundance Film Festival have announced new programming for the Sundance channel available onboard Virgin America airplanes.
Passengers on Virgin’s modern airplanes can watch independent films on the Sundance channel programmed exclusively for the airline. The new improved programming will start in March with all the latest documentaries and films from independent […]

Las Vegas has rolled out a new slogan, “Your Vegas is Showing”. This new slogan is being promoted on TV and print ads. Las Vegas is investing heavily in tourism in the next four years; a total of $40 billion will be invested mainly in high-end projects from big names.
Erika Pope of the Las Vegas […]

Travel and Tourism leaders are expecting the year 2008 to see a continued growth of tourism, despite global economic problems. In 2007 international tourism arrivals increased by almost 6% to nearly 900 million tourists around the world, according to UN World Tourism Organisation.
A new research by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) and […]

Valentine city breaks are becoming more popular every year, and new romantic city break destinations are beginning to emerge, online travel agency Holidays-direct.co.uk reports.
The old time favourite romantic city breaks in Paris, Rome and Venice are still the most popular choice for Valentine city breaks, but new trendy destinations are emerging. City breaks in […]

Last year 59.2 million tourists arrived in Spain, a 1.7% rise from the previous year. The largest number of tourists arrived from the UK, a total 16.3 million. About 10 million tourists arrived from Germany and over 9 million from France making them the second and third largest contributors to Spain’s tourism.
Almost half of […]

A new luxury hotel resort will be built in Mauritius by InterContinental Hotels (IHG) with a massive $50 million budget. The InterContinental Mauritius Resort Balaclava Fort hotel is scheduled to open in late 2008 with over 200 rooms.
The hotel will be on a beach near the popular are of Grand Baie, 20 minutes from […]

Snowboarders are twice as likely to end up with broken bones on the slopes. The most likely ways to fall and hurt yourself is to ‘fall onto and out-stretched hand’ – Foosh as it’s called by emergency staff.
Ski holidays are very popular, and snowboarding is becoming a popular choice over traditional downhill skiing. According to […]

The Austrian region of Vorarlberg has had the best winter tourism season in 10 years. Overnight stays were up 14.9% in November and December 2007, with a total of nearly 8 million overnight visitors during the whole year.
Austria is a famous winter holiday destinations, especially for ski holidays Austria is the first choice for many […]

The Las Vegas of China, Macau is seeing a rush of casino tourists. Hundreds of gamblers head over to Macau every morning, with casino owners surprised over the amount of interest in Macau.
Last year Macau overtook Las Vegas in revenues, mainly thanks to Chinese tourists pouring into the city. Macau consists of a peninsula […]

Cuba relies on tourism, and in recent years the tourism industry has been growing in the country with more tourists pouring in, especially from Europe. Now cruise ships are stopping at Santiago de Cuba, in Eastern Cuba.
This cruise season has seen seven cruise ships docking in the harbour of Santiago de Cuba 14 times, […]