Junko Fujita checks out the latest niche trend in Japan – converted office buildings filled with hotel beds tucked into cabins just big enough for one... With Japan’s tourist numbers and hotel prices on the rise thanks to a weaker yen, developers are...
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Rock shapes are seen in the White Desert, about 500km southwest of the Egyptian capital Cairo, which features limestone and chalk forms strangely shaped by the wind and sand. The terrain gains in intensity when illuminated. Trekking and 4x4 trips for...
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Another roller coaster ride at Alton Towers has been closed after breaking down – a week after a crash at the theme park forced a teenage girl to have her leg amputated. The Octonauts Rollercoaster Adventure in the CBeebies area of the Staffordshire...
YTC is renowned for organising memorable holidays to Livigno in winter and summer. Located in the Italian Alps, Livigno in summer is highly recommended for the cool fresh air and breathtaking views. The tour also includesAustria and Switzerland. The...
Alton Towers will reopen to the public today after shutting its gates following a roller coaster crash which saw four people seriously injured. The theme park has been closed since Tuesday, and the chief executive of Merlin Entertainments, which owns...
Visitors to Thuringia can easily imagine they are standing next to Luther, Bonaparte, Bach, Goethe, Ratzinger and The Mad Hatter or, rather, Johnny Depp, as Ray Bugeja did after a quick visit to Munich, Bavaria... Munich’s famous Hofbräuhaus. Photo:...
Air Malta is celebrating 40 years at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport. The airline started operating to the Netherlands around a year after commencing flight operations on April 1, 1974. This summer Air Malta is operating daily flights to Amsterdam. Chief...
The Radisson Blu Resort, Hotel Phoenicia and Grand Hotel Excelsior have won the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence Hall of Fame award. The award celebrates excellence in hospitality and is given to establishments that achieve positive traveller...
Infinitely Xara’s de Mondion restaurant was honoured with the Best in Class and Best Hospitality awards by the Malta Tourism Authority during a presentation last week. The awards are part of a quality assured scheme launched in October 2014, which...
A man who spent 200 days walking more than 1,800 miles from St Andrews to Rome raised €1,375 for Alzheimer’s Research UK. Peter Skelly, 47, from Blantyre, embarked on the challenge last October, spurred on by thoughts of his mother Anne, 71, who has...
A mix of locals and music fans were watching silently or dancing, framed by the branches of the giant fromager (kapok) tree that marks the centre of the Senegalese village of Diembering, as hip-hop band Tirailleurs started to sing about me. Or at least...
Emirates has launched a global Be There campaign that celebrates curiosity, wanderlust and the adventure that comes with travel. For this digital and social media campaign, Emirates has turned to its own ‘globalistas’, dynamic and passionate employees...
Prices have plunged for Britons on self-catering holidays in Europe, according to a survey. The cost of groceries at supermarkets has dipped as much as 45 per cent in some resorts compared with this time last year, the survey by Post Office Travel...
Photographers working for international news agency Reuters have taken countless beautiful images of the world’s most inspiring urban areas, but this collection of striking images shows that when cloaked by mist or fog, these mighty buildings all truly...
There are at least nine varieties of Vienna’s famed Mozart Ball sweets – and Veronica Stivala learns her favourite is not the one she expected...
David Walding learns of the Cotswolds’ culinary and spiritual plant power
File photo of roller coaster Saw, which has been closed since the crash on Tuesday. Photo:Thorpe Park/PA Wire Alton Towers is to reopen “within the next few days” but the ride involved in the crash in which 16 people were injured will remain shut for...
Alton Towers will stay closed again tomorrow as it racks up losses potentially worth millions of pounds following a horrific roller coaster crash. Sixteen people were injured, four seriously, when two carriages on the Smiler ride collided at the...
Easyjet has begun using automated drones to carry out safety inspections on its aircraft, the airline has announced. At an event at Milan’s Malpensa airport, the UK-based budget airline said a test inspection on an aircraft had been completed by one of...
Alton Towers will remain closed until the cause of a roller coaster crash which left 16 people injured is discovered, the theme park’s chief has said. The attraction’s gates are shut for a second day while the Health and Safety Executive looks into why...
Tube travellers have endured badly disrupted journeys after signal failures affected four London Underground lines in the heart of the morning rush hour. A failed signal at Edgware Road in west London led to severe delays on the Circle and Hammersmith...
Alton Towers bosses have refused to put a time frame on the theme park reopening after 16 people were injured in a roller coaster crash. Nick Varney, chief executive of Merlin Entertainments which runs the Staffordshire attraction, said a fail-safe...
Balearic Island offers more than budget breaks, finds Chris Parker.
The first edition of the Malta Tourism Authority Quality Assured Awards was recently held at Xara Lodge in the limits of Rabat. Tourism Minister Edward Zammit Lewis and MTA CEO Paul Bugeja presented the winners of four categories with their...
Paris, Berlin or Lisbon... the price of the flight will often determine the destination of a city trip. However, savvy tourists should also remember that transfer costs can also have an impact on their travel budget. Idealo examined airport transfer...
Thousands of people lined the shores of the Mersey to witness Cunard’s three flagship liners sail down the river framed by the magnificent Liverpool skyline. The Three Queens spectacle celebrated the famous shipping line’s formation 175 years ago in...
London has less appeal for long-haul travellers, according to a report. While long-haul travel to major European cities so far this year (January to April) is up 3.9 per cent, London is down 3.7 per cent, an analysis of bookings by travel-pattern...
Children are travelling far more widely, and earlier, than their parents did when they were young,a survey has shown. As many as 69 per cent of British parents said their children travelled overseas more often than they had at the same age, the...
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