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A map collating 2010′s hottest destinations

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.

Hot Destinations for 2010

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

Vancouver 2010

It may be the middle of July, but winter sports enthusiasts are already looking ahead to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver next February. Making headlines recently has been Women’s Ski Jumping USA, which filed a lawsuit in May 2008 against the organising committee’s decision only to include men’s ski jumping at the Games. Despite the

Bruce-Mitfords take Les Borjs to the top

Les Borjs de la Kasbah, a Hotel de Charme in Marrakech, and one of our clients, has been rightly recognised for its high levels of customer satisfaction and selected as the No. 1 Hotel in Africa and No. 22 in the world in the latest Expedia Insiders’ Select Survey (http://www.lesborjsdelakasbah.com/news.php).

Kaş is king – A treasure on the Turquoise Coast

Kaş is on the southern coast of Turkey and perfect for a short holiday to get some R&R. It’s a 2.5 hour transfer from Dalaman airport and a 3:30am touchdown from Gatwick means a pretty bleary-eyed arrival at around 6:00am. Immediately refreshing, however, is the view from the third floor breakfast terrace at the Hideaway Hotel overlooking the turquoise blue Mediterranean Sea and a collection of Greek islands.

10 lesser-known travel websites

Steering clear of the TripAdvisors, Expedias and WAYNs of this world, I’ve made a list of ten great, but lesser-known travel websites.  Not that I don’t get out much during my lunchbreak… (This is not an exercise to plug our own clients this time – although many of them have stellar sites – that’s for another

Is the recession over for travel companies?

Overseas holiday bookings, like any industry, suffered at the hands of this recession – the Euro struggled and jobs were endangered, leaving little scope for a summer holiday booking.  But recent stories quote analysts as saying that Britain may already be slowly clawing its way out of the recession; that the nadir may have passed.