Types of trip
Acacia Adventure holidays launches “Voluntour Tweet”
Acacia Adventure Holidays is continuing to see increases in bookings across the company’s dedicated voluntour section.
Time for Tunisia
Although part of the African continent, Tunisia has a very pleasant climate and even in August temperatures rarely get above 30 degrees Celsius. The North African country also offers visitors plenty of things to see and do, all set against an exotic background of palms, jasmine bushes and orange trees.
Go wet and wild out west with Ranch Rider
If you’re looking for some added thrills and spills on your ranch stay and want to do more than simply ride the range, North America has plenty of dude options that are ideal for wet and wild pursuits.
Italy town of Bra celebrates cheese
The biennial event ‘Cheese – Milk in All its Shapes and Forms’, organized by Slow Food and the City of Bra, is back for its seventh edition, to be held September 18-21, 2009 in Bra (Piedmont, Italy).
Enable Holidays expands programme for disabled travellers
Enable Holidays, the specialist tour operator for people with limited mobility, their families and friends, has introduced an exciting new collection of accommodation to its portfolio ranging from budget conscious apartments through to top of the range hotels featuring the latest facilities and excellent adaptations for the disabled guest.
Wolf watching in the Tatra Mountains
Biosphere Expeditions – the award winning, non profit making conservation specialists which is celebrating its tenth anniversary, has announced a new project for 2010. This is in the Tatra Mountains of Slovakia to monitor wolf and lynx populations and their interrelationships with key prey species.
Culture and walking in Slovakia
Mountain Paradise (mountainparadise.co.uk/summer) is offering £50 off of its week long cultural breaks and walking holidays plus a free day pass for luxury water park and spa, Aquacity, worth £50 - a total saving of £100.
Threesixty restaurant gets ‘down to earth’
A new ‘down to earth’ approach to cuisine at Queenstown’s threesixty restaurant combines premium local produce with modern European cooking techniques to create tasty, stylish dishes.
Cover yourself properly for UK holidays
As the number of people planning on staying in the UK for their holiday rises, AXA, the UK's largest travel insurer, advises holidaymakers to ensure they are covered by travel insurance.
Experience nine lives in the Azores
Located just over 3½hrs from the UK, SATA Internacional makes exploring the Azores archipelago on a two-centre, fly-drive or island-hopping break even easier thanks to its convenient flight connections.
Weird and wonderful in Denmark
Denmark’s regional city of Odense will offer a glimpse of the weird and wonderful world of robots when it hosts ‘RoboDays’; an annual festival that attracts playful, instructive and interactive robots, scientists and robotic enthusiasts of all ages from all over the world for three days of ‘robotic’ fun from 10 to 12 September 2009.
Rustic charm in South West France
A massive £500 saving is available this August at a large and spacious farmhouse in South West France courtesy of Vintage Travel, which specialises, exclusively, in houses with private pools in areas of local tradition and culture.
An ‘insider’s tour' of the Deep South
Mix with the locals and check out hidden musical venues and haunts on a ‘Music and Heritage of the Deep South ‘escorted tour, courtesy of US specialist, Bon Voyage.
Marbella Belles – How hens are bucking the credit crunch
Despite the credit crunch and predictions of a hot summer at home, the hens are still off in the hundreds to the Costa del Sol for their share of sun, sangria and silliness! Marbella has always been popular with hen parties and, while many groups are opting to stay in the UK for their last weekend of freedom, Brilliant Trips are finding the pull of this Spanish town is as strong as ever.
Birmingham overtakes Glasgow in top 10 most-visited
Birmingham has overtaken Glasgow, while Cardiff nudges ahead of Brighton and Hove, in the annual tables ranking UK towns by the number of visits by overseas residents.