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I love technical museums, especially maritime museums so, with some free time to spend exploring Rotterdam before the Travel Bloggers Unite Europe conference started (today), it was no surprise where I ended up yesterday! The Rotterdam Maritime Museum is not … Continue reading

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Travel writers and bloggers forget that they are not the only people to be hosted by tourism organisations and the travel industry. I’m not sure how the numbers compare but there are probably just as many, if not more, ‘commercial’ … Continue reading

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Back around 2008-2010 when the sub-prime mortgage crisis was hitting Americans in a bad way, I noticed a new term cropping up in several U.S. travel publications (mostly the travel/lifestyle pages in local newspapers): the Tankaway. Like Staycation (the word … Continue reading

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…Egypt certainly hopes so. Delegates at this week’s WTM Vision Conference at the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai heard that inbound trips to the Middle East region were down 5% last year mainly due to the decline of arrivals to … Continue reading

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A ‘target-rich’ opportunity for photographers – The Royal Borough of Greenwich is to host London’s largest gathering of photogenic Tall Ships for 25 years. The Regatta, Sail Royal Greenwich, involving up to 50 of the most spectacular Tall Ships in … Continue reading

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