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Even as cruise lines offer tantalising itineraries to bustling cities such as Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong, and extol the magic of Vietnam’s Halong Bay and Thailand’s Phang Nga Bay and urge travellers to partake of Japan’s cherry blossom festival, India is missing from any of the alluring offers. With ...

On a June evening, everyone in a downtown restaurant of this river valley city is cheering wildly for Russia’s World Cup soccer team. This is not surprising. Ulan Ude is very much part of Russia. But this is a Russia remarkably different from expectations in many ways. The city and ...

On some days, half of trains have been delayed or cancelled. A furious debate is raging about the virtues and vices of privatisation alongside scrutiny of levels of public subsidy. Meanwhile, millions of commuters wake each week uncertain just when or if their journeys to work will be completed. It ...

Speaking to Sky News, Sean Tipton of the Association of British Travel Agents revealed the secret to being safe in the extreme weather on holiday is to follow locals’ habits. Mr Timpton explained high temperatures of 45C might not be a novelty to Spanish or Portuguese people in August, but ...

The French leader has invited Prime Minister May to his summer residence on the French Riviera to discuss her vision for Brexit. The visit is part of May’s wider strategy to garner support for her country’s EU divorce plan which is due to be signed in just over ten weeks ...

RIMINI – Europe Asia Global Link Exhibitions (EAGLE) – joint-venture of Italian Exhibition Group (IEG) and VNU Exhibitions Asia – and DISCOVERYMICE form an alliance for the organization of the 1st World Conference on Food Tourism to be held in China, in Chengdu, from next September 5th simultaneously with the ...

If you think it’s hot today, it’s nothing compared to elsewhere in Europe. After the UK experienced the hottest day of the year so far, when 35. 3°C was recorded in Faversham, Kent, forecasters say Europe’s temperature record could be broken as Spain and Portugal heat up this weekend. The ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – South African Airways Vacations (SAA Vacations), the leisure vacation division of South African Airways, adds 12 new hotel and safari lodge operators throughout popular destinations in Southern and Eastern Africa. The expanded portfolio includesfive star properties in the coastal cities of Cape Town and Durban and ...

(CNN) – Picture Paris, and you conjure images of the Eiffel Tower soaring above the city. It was only supposed to be a temporary structure, but the wrought-iron icon has become as much part of the fabric as the River Seine. Designed as the red-painted centerpiece of the 1889 Exposition ...

MORE than a million Australians flock to this holiday hotspot every year, but few are aware of the extent of its sickening underbelly. And now there are fears that the health and safety of tourists is at risk on the streets of Indonesia due to the country’s illegal dog and ...