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Brits are so eager to get to their holidays, that 27% say they pack their bags a week in advance, according to a new survey.

As the ski season 2008/09 looms near, airlines are launching their flight routes and schedules to the ski resorts across Europe.

Family holidays start to have more arguments when children are 11 years old or over, according to a new survey.

Emirates has revealed the world’s first airplane equipped with onboard showers for first class passengers.

Holidays in Turkey, Bulgaria and other non-Euro holiday destinations have become the new holiday trend, as Brits try to find the best holiday deals by avoiding the Euro-countries on their holidays, according to experts at online travel agency Holidays-Direct.co.uk.

Taking a holiday in the US is the new favourite for tourists from the UK, according to a Lonely Planet survey. Last year the favourite holiday destination on the survey was Australia.

The European Union is urging holidaymakers to be careful in the sun this summer, in order to stop the increasing level of skin cancers, especially in children.

In the past five years, Brits on holiday abroad have lost a total of £3.5 billion to theft. The most likely item to be stolen from Brits is an iPod, followed by mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders.

Two days, nine hours and 25 minutes after you arrive to your holiday destination, you finally relax. A new survey has pin-pointed the exact time when Brits on holiday finally relax.

Italy and Greece are the cheapest holiday destinations in Europe for families to go sightseeing, according to a new travel survey.

In the jet-setting age of low-cost airlines and cheap holidays, 15% of Brits have never travelled abroad, a new survey has found. The percentage of those who have never taken a holiday abroad grows with age – 21% of over 65 year olds have never travelled abroad.

Families are not willing to give up their annual holidays, but are spending less money on the holidays than they did last year, according to a new poll.

Most UK schools are breaking for the summer holidays July 18-21, and over two million people will head for a summer holiday abroad right away.

The Grand Canyon and the Pyramids in Egypt are the top of the list of places people would like to visit before they die, a new survey has found.

British holidaymakers travelling abroad pack their own food – items like baked beans, soup, cereal and tea, according to a new survey.
Of 2,000 adults surveyed, 18% said they pack food with them when going on a holiday, instead of trying the local delicacies and eating out on their holiday.
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Next year will see a range of events taking place across Scotland which focus on celebrating whisky. Homecoming Scotland marks the anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns - a poet and known whisky lover.

The best cities is in the world are Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and Sydney, according to a recent survey by the Travel and Leisure magazine.

Carnival Cruise Lines is hoping to double the number cruise passengers from the UK as it launches its first ever Northern Europe cruise from Dover.

Many airlines have been forced to cancel flights next winter as demand hasn’t been as high as expected, but bmi has decided to fly ‘ghost flights’ in order to keep the coveted Heathrow landing slots.

Barbados is celebrating a five week festival Crop Over until August 4th this year. It is Barbados’ most popular festival with ‘an exciting and vibrant extravaganza of music and masquerade, heritage and culture’.