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Taste of Sydney’s Tasmanian Pavillion

traveladmin — Wed, 22 May 2013 07:43:55 +0000

This year’s Taste of Sydney will see a gourmet line-up in the new Tasmanian Pavilion. Designed to educate and excite visitors with the coolest gastronomic delights from Tasmania’s wild places – the Tasmanian Pavilion will be the largest on site, and will showcase the state’s rich food and wine heritage, as well as Tasmanian eco-tourism [...]

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Summer Festivals In Brighton

traveladmin — Wed, 22 May 2013 07:43:45 +0000

BRIGHTON FESTIVAL www.brightonfestival.org Brighton Festival is one of Europe’s leading arts festivals and offers 3 fabulous weeks of unrivalled arts celebration. 2013 welcomes poet & former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen as Guest Director. Internationally award winning film Inuk (2012) by Mike Magidson is a coming of age story of 16-year-old Inuk and follows his journey [...]

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Bath Celebrates Its History

traveladmin — Mon, 13 May 2013 08:05:12 +0000

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bath is celebrating its unique Roman and Georgian heritage this year with special events throughout the summer months and the completion of major building work to restore one of the city’s leading attractions. No. 1 Royal Crescent re-opens One of Bath’s leading attractions, No. 1 Royal Crescent, will be [...]

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Hobbit locations

traveladmin — Mon, 13 May 2013 08:04:21 +0000

Although full details of The Hobbit filming locations are under embargo, supervising location manager Jared Connon says about 40 different parts of New Zealand were chosen. He said some locations are on private land but several are public or national parks which are easily accessible in popular tourist destinations. “They’ve all got their tourism tie-ins [...]

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Packing For A Cracking Holiday

traveladmin — Mon, 13 May 2013 08:04:12 +0000

Today a new TV advertisement hits our screens fronted by Aardman double-act Wallace and Gromit, encouraging Brits to take a holiday at home this summer. Here, the national tourist board looks at just some of the top Wallace and Gromit inspired days out, short breaks and holidays across England. A Grand Day Out – “Eeeeeeeeee, [...]

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New Zealand Ski Fields Ready to Open

traveladmin — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:51:13 +0000

Heavy snow has blanketed New Zealand’s South Island this week, ensuring the 2012 ski season opening at both Mt Hutt and Coronet Peak this Saturday 9 June. At Mt Hutt, an average 65cm of snow had covered the Canterbury ski area by Thursday morning. The snowmaking guns at Coronet Peak and Mt Hutt are also [...]

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Tourism Seeks New Partnership

traveladmin — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:51:05 +0000

It’s time for New Zealand’s multi-billion dollar visitor industry to “get its house in order” to achieve its potential, new Tourism Industry Association New Zealand (TIA) Chief Executive Martin Snedden says. Speaking at Local Government New Zealand’s annual conference in Queenstown today, Mr Snedden said the visitor industry’s challenge was to commit itself unconditionally to [...]

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Re-Launch For York Dungeon

traveladmin — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:50:56 +0000

Re-Launch Set For Better And Bolder York Dungeon As Work Begins To Repair Flood Damage The York Dungeon, one of the city’s most loved and longest established visitor attractions, will re-launch in Spring 2013, better and bolder than ever before. Supported by a £2 million investment from attraction owner Merlin Entertainments, The York Dungeon brings [...]

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SAA wins Year award

traveladmin — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:50:42 +0000

Pretoria – National carrier South African Airways (SAA) has won the Global Traveller’s magazine “Airline of the year” award – the highest honour awarded by the publication for global business travellers. The magazine cited SAA as a “perennial favourite” among its readers as well as the “perfect representative” of the country’s personality and culture. The [...]

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The only way to cross the Baltic Sea – Silja Line

traveladmin — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:53:26 +0000

Travelling on a ferry across the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden is always like a mini getaway. Many of the Finns and Swedes are used to this journey, often an overnight voyage, and do it either for the sake of the cruise itself or perhaps to spend a day in the neighbouring capital. We, [...]

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