This issue introduces new sections that will become regular departments ensuring parents will be even better informed on the vast array of family-friendly holiday choices, further solidifying Holidays with Kids' position as the number one planning guide for family holidays.

Now in its eighth year, Holidays with Kids is firmly established as a market leader and has many long-term partnerships in place with premium advertisers which will ensure its future growth.

Holidays with Kids has an audited circulation of 60,000 copies placing it as the highest-circulating CAB-audited travel title that goes out to both consumer and trade. Distribution is to all travel agents in both NZ and Australia, which adds another powerful component to the distribution mix.

In this issue Helen Hayes experiences a family adventure into the heart of Austria, visiting Hallstatt and Salzburg. Our ski feature has expanded to include Cardrona in New Zealand - an award-winning family ski resort. We find out where Lisa Curry-Kenny and Kieren Perkins take their kids in our Celebrity Travel feature. Read about everything from African safaris to cycling holidays in Adventure Travel, and get up close and personal with the Australian bush in our new Great Outdoors feature.

There is a fantastic family holiday to Malaysia to be won by one lucky family, courtesy of Austrian Airlines and Sunway Lagoon Resort Hotel. The Top Ten Family Resorts for 2004, as voted by our readers, are also revealed and readers are once again asked to cast their vote for the best family resort for 2005.

Key to the success of this publication, and an idea that has now been emulated by other publications, is the ease in being able to see at a glance the facilities that properties have available for families. You can see at a glance whether there is a kids' club, kids' meals, cots, highchairs, if there are family rooms, are pets allowed, is there a babysitting service, are there kitchen facilities, a playground, in-room video and if there is a swimming pool. These are vital questions to any parent trying to organize a hassle-free holiday.