Is this the longest winter EVER? Actually, it’s questionable whether we’re even still in winter anymore – technically, March is spring, and the current climate (sunny, chilly days, and the sensation of a face rub from the Ice Queen when the wind blusters) seems to back up that assumption. What is certainly true, however, is that [...]
I’ve collated various tips for hot travel destinations in 2010, and displayed them all, with explanatory description, in one Google Map. Click the grab below to go through to the map itself – and enjoy! Richard.
After bringing us the likes of Simon Cowell, Osama Bin Laden, Jordan and Jedward, the Noughties are almost over. But what were the Destinations of the Decade – stunning new places that are now firmly on the tourism map – and what will be the holiday hotspots of the Twenty-Tens/Oh-tens/Teenies/Tenties/Tenners? We asked some of our expert clients:
Inspired by David Whitley’s great effort, we at Travel PR have decided to create our own festive brainteaser – because everyone loves a Christmas quiz. See how well you do, and please let us know – 25 marks up for grabs. Answers after the festive picture, below. 1. How many islands make up the Faroes? 2. Where is [...]
Here’s a vision of 2010 vogue – predictions of the hottest travel destinations in the coming year, made by our most expert clients: Brittany Reasoning: Brittany is a fantastic destination for families due to its proximity to the UK and excellent beaches. The summer season during the last two years has been slow, resulting in a [...]
Life, the latest nature show from the BBC and Sir David Attenborough, begins tonight in the UK, Monday 12 October at 9pm on BBC1. The 10-part show focuses on the extreme survival methods employed by Earth’s 30 million or so animals and plants, capturing mind-blowing behaviour, strange creatures and epic spectacles in TV firsts. All of which makes [...]
You aardly see one for years, and then hundreds come along at once… It’s truly aard to believe. Our safari specialist client Expert Africa tells us that Samara Private Game Reserve in South Africa has had a record-breaking amount of aardvark sightings – with over a hundred sightings in the past few months alone. This [...]
We asked Paul Bondsfield at our clients Explore, adventure specialists that run nearly 50 annual group tours to Kenya, about the alarming news that the Maasai Mara’s rapidly-decreasing lion population could disappear altogether inside 20 years: “The situation for the lion population in Kenya is very worrying, especially as the fall in numbers is so [...]
One of the most notable tenets of the Twitter boom has been the spree of Twitter-supporting applications launched to work with the networking site. Want to have your Twitter feed automatically update? Easy – use Twitscoop or iGoogle. Need to know when your client’s mentioned on Twitter? Tweet Beep ought to help. And so on, and on, and on. [...]
I spent last weekend at Farm Festival, a small gathering held in a picturesque, cider-loving Somerset backwater, a couple of valleys over from Glastonbury’s Worthy Farm. In this modern English world of seemingly infinite annual festival options, from the mighty to the mini, Farm Festival is decidedly located at the humbler end of the spectrum: [...]