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Allianz Survey Finds Summer Travel Continues to Rebound

Allianz Survey Finds Summer Travel Continues to Rebound

By Theresa Norton Masek travelpulse.com * Social media featuring in more travel plans More Americans will take a vacation this summer, and more are getting an early start, according to the third annual Allianz Travel Insurance Summer Vacation Confidence Index released by Allianz Global Assistance USA. Fifty-seven percent of Americans are likely to hit the […]

Allianz Survey Finds Summer Travel Continues to Rebound

Allianz Survey Finds Summer Travel Continues to Rebound

By Theresa Norton Masek travelpulse.com * Social media featuring in more travel plans More Americans will take a vacation this summer, and more are getting an early start, according to the third annual Allianz Travel Insurance Summer Vacation Confidence Index released by Allianz Global Assistance USA. Fifty-seven percent of Americans are likely to hit the […]

New Hilton brand for Australia

New Hilton brand for Australia

Source: Travel Daily DoubleTree by Hilton to debut down under Hilton Worldwide has announced the “breakthrough” launch of its DoubleTree by Hilton brand in the Australian market under a deal with Ramtron Australia. The 164-room DoubleTree by Hilton Karratha in WA’s Pilbara region will be the state’s second Hilton-branded hotel, joining the Parmelia Hilton Perth, […]

PNG cultural festivals now underway

PNG cultural festivals now underway

tourists to gain cultural insight The 2012 cultural festival season in Papua New Guinea is now in full swing, running from June until November each year, offering intrepid travellers an authentic PNG experience only a few hours flight from home. Important aspects of Papua New Guinea culture, such as tribal dance and song (known as […]

PNG cultural festivals now underway

PNG cultural festivals now underway

tourists to gain cultural insight The 2012 cultural festival season in Papua New Guinea is now in full swing, running from June until November each year, offering intrepid travellers an authentic PNG experience only a few hours flight from home. Important aspects of Papua New Guinea culture, such as tribal dance and song (known as […]

PNG cultural festivals now underway

PNG cultural festivals now underway

tourists to gain cultural insight The 2012 cultural festival season in Papua New Guinea is now in full swing, running from June until November each year, offering intrepid travellers an authentic PNG experience only a few hours flight from home. Important aspects of Papua New Guinea culture, such as tribal dance and song (known as […]

Sea Spirit to Oceanwide for 2012/13

Sea Spirit to Oceanwide for 2012/13

International Shipping Partners has announced that the Sea Spirit (formerly Cruise West Spirit of Oceanus)has been chartered to Oceanwide Expedition, Holland for the 2012 summer season. The vessel is on its way from South America to Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen, where it will begin cruises in Spitsbergen, Greenland and Iceland on July 10. After the summer season […]

WAXING LYRICAL OVER BOBBIE BURNS

WAXING LYRICAL OVER BOBBIE BURNS

GREAT friend or new discovery,a lovely drop with glazed filet mignon Wc25Jun12 David Ellis TAKE vines that are fifty years old and a company that’s made Shiraz from those vines for forty-one consecutive vintages, and you can be pretty-much assured you’re going to get a very rewarding drop indeed – particularly when priced at an […]

Struth! Give way to planes crossing

Struth! Give way to planes crossing

In his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says Gibraltar is the only place in the world where the busiest highway within its territorial boundaries goes right across its only airport’s runway (or the runway cuts across the highway, depending on your point of view.) […]

Struth! Give way to planes crossing

Struth! Give way to planes crossing

In his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says Gibraltar is the only place in the world where the busiest highway within its territorial boundaries goes right across its only airport’s runway (or the runway cuts across the highway, depending on your point of view.) […]