Picture by Maria Celia Salgado Hampstead Heath covering 320 hectares (790acres) of grass public area sits on sandy ridge on one of the highest points in London. The Heath has embracing ponds, ancient woodlands, a lido, playgrounds, children’s paddling pool, t three open public swimming pools which were originally reservoirs for drinking water from the…
David and Goliath, Uber and Lyft left fuming as Skip get the contract. Sanjay Dastoor, CEO of Skip, a little known scooter start-up that beat the likes of Uber and Bird to a lucrative city contract in San Francisco, said “ I have been looking for an answer that is going to be a high-quality,…
Elephants like taking a water shower, mud shoer and a dust shower alone, but here the elephants is allowing a tourists to sit on his back and you are given a elephant shower in Thekkady in Kerala, India’s largest wildlife sanctuary, a dream destination for any tourist. Thekkady also has a tiger reserve and tropical…
Pictures by R Nair Chile has been named in Lonely Planet’s latest edition Best in Travel 2018 book as the number one country to visit in 2018, closely followed by South Korea, and Portugal. This is boost for Chile, whose Foreign Direct Investment fell to its lowest level in 2016 since 2009 according to…
According to the Annual Mastercard Global Destinations Cities Index released this week, Lonon and Paris follow Bangkok on top 10 global Index release editions list of 2017. The index is more than a ranking of the 132 top destination cities of today and tomorrow, is based on visitor volume and spend for the 2016 calendar…
Kerala Tourism Department has won “The Pacific Asia Travel Association Grand and Gold Award 2017” for its Muziris Heritage Project Film Tourism Brochure in the Marketing and Media-consumer travel brochure category. The awards were presented at the 32nd edition of the PATA Awards held at Macao, in recognition of its innovative and trending marketing initiatives,…
The Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA).has published 12 trending destinations to watch for 2017. ABTA’s report reveals almost 23 per cent of the population are expecting to spend more on their holidays, up from 20 per cent last year. Andalucia in southern Spain topped the destinations list followed by The Azores, Bermuda, Chile, County Kerry,…
Stephanie Pearson, a school teacher, science and freelance writer and contributing Editor to “Outside” magazine, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, won the award for Best Foreign Journalist for India. Her travel feature had appeared in the Outside Magazine. She had also travelled across Australia, Latin America to create a real-time, online curriculum for 50,000…
Three people have been killed and nine injured in a train crash in the Belgian town of Hermalle-sous-Huy near Leige, as the passenger train crashed into the back of a goods train at high speed, according to Belgium’s rail infrastructure manager, Infrabel. The two trains were on the same track. The passenger trains with about…
World’s longest and highest glass bridge hovers 984 feet above a 1,410 feet wide canyon in China. An 180-metre-high and 300-metre-long Haohan Qiao, ( The Brave men’s bridge) the glass-bottomed suspension bridge hangs between two sides of a canyon, across a valley in Shiniuzhai National geological park in China.