It’s only June, but temperatures in Southeast Europe have already signalled that summer is well under way. Heat waves and blazing sunlight make it even harder than usual to concentrate on daily business and not think ahead to the summer vacation. With the Balkans becoming a favoured tourist spot, many families from outside the region [...]

If you’re sick of wading through confusing reviews to find the best places to visit, you’ll be relieved to learn that a new expert travel review site, TheTravelEditor.com, has been launched to inject some much-needed 21st century thinking into the online travel review market.
Created by telecoms and internet veterans Kevin Evans and Nicholas Allen, TheTravelEditor.com [...]

German nudists seeking to take the experience to the skies had some cold water thrown on their vacation plans last week after their chartered flight to the Baltic Sea island of Usedom was cancelled.
Citing “moral objections” from the media and some negative comments from customers on the company’s Web site, online travel agency OssiUrlaub.de terminated [...]

In a matter of months,the economic partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe will be signed in Barbados.
While the formal treaty arrangement may come into being against a background of demonstrations, in part orchestrated by bodies from outside the region, there is no political appetite in the region to reject what has been agreed.
This means that the [...]

Thailand’s annual Tourism Festival and Travel Mart 2008 to be held 5-8 June, 2008, at Challenger Hall, Impact Muang Thong Thani Exhibition Centre, is to grow still further this year with the inclusion of exhibitors from Indonesia and Malaysia.
Already the biggest such event in the kingdom, the Thailand Travel Mart (TTM) 2008 Plus Amazing Gateway [...]

A company that takes schoolchildren on exotic adventure trips is in talks to be sold for about ï¿¡110m.
Education and Adventure Travel Group, which provides school holidays for some 200,000 children a year, is about to be bought by DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, the private-equity arm of Credit Suisse, the investment bank. The company consists of [...]

The investment arm of one of Switzerland’s most powerful financial institutions is poised to acquire the Education & Adventure Travel Group, a company that organises and manages school holidays for thousands of British schoolchildren.
DLJ Merchant Banking, the private equity division of Credit Suisse, is in advanced talks to buy the business, which comprises the Kingswood [...]

OTTAWA–Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier has to travel first class to “stand tall” on the world stage, Conservative government House leader Peter Van Loan says.
Van Loan was defending Bernier, who has been dogged by criticism since taking on the portfolio last August, including over his relationship with a Quebec woman who had close ties to [...]

A California court decision to allow same-sex marriage could cut down on the number of gay U.S. travelers heading to B.C. to get married but the impact won’t be huge, Vancouver tourism officials said Friday.
The California Supreme Court struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage this week in a decision that invalidates virtually any [...]

Have you ever considered taking the family on an adventure holiday in France? It may be just what the whole family has been looking for. All the family can be involved together, which can make for a great learning experience.
Whether you fancy white water rafting, horse riding, mountain biking or hiking, these are just some [...]