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The tourism office for the (extremely) remote island of St Helena has launched a blog. The St Helena Wirebird blog hopes to inspire travellers and showcase the diversity of this little-known island’s landscapes and experiences through amazing photography, top tips … 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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…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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Get ready for a surge of information and photos from The Gambia. Specialist tour operator, The Gambia Experience, is hosting a blog trip to the country with some well-known travel bloggerati. Very few UK tour operators feature The Gambia, and … Continue reading

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In an interesting – and maybe surprising to some, given their rivalry – collaboration, Virgin Atlantic and British Airways, together with BAA and Manchester Airports Group, have formed a lobby/campaign group called the Aviation Foundation to “to ensure that the … Continue reading

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