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Why Edinburgh Stories Begin on a Minibus

In a city as culturally rich and historically layered as Edinburgh , every journey carries the potential to become a story. From April to September, when festivals energize the streets and millions of visitors arrive, the way people move across the city becomes an essential part of their experience. This is exactly why so many unforgettable moments now begin on a 16-seater minibus — an increasingly popular choice for group travel. Understanding the value of a service aligned with arranging 16 seater minibus hire in Edinburgh is key to appreciating how these rides elevate the entire...

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Embarrassing holiday habits revealed

A global survey by deal experts at Travelzoo has revealed that Brits and Germans are as bad as each other, with a third of respondents admitting to making the early morning towel run to reserve a sunbed on the beach or by the pool. Travelzoo’s ‘honesty survey’ asked over 9,500 adults across the UK, US, China, Canada and Germany to own up to their worst holiday habits. The research revealed that two in every three Americans admitted to urinating in the pool or the sea, closely followed by half of Canadians and 46 per cent of Brits. Americans are also the biggest culprits when it comes to...

Tourism awards deadline extended

Deadlines for this year’s official tourism awards for Visit Devon and other counties Cornwall, Dorset and the South West, have been extended after websites receive record 13,475 views. With judging of this year’s tourism awards due to start in July, tourism businesses across the region are being offered a short extension until Friday 19th June for submitting entries, with Friday 26th June the last submission date for those who register on or before Friday 19th June. For the Unsung Hero & Tourism Event and Festival categories there is a later deadline of Friday 28th August. The awards...

Exeter attractions scoop top awards

Exeter’s visitor attractions have scooped a hat-trick of top awards from an online review site.

TripAdvisor, which is the world’s biggest online travel review website, has awarded its coveted Certificate of Excellence to the City’s Red Coat Guides, the Underground Passages and Exeter Guildhall.

Now in its fifth year, the TripAdvisor award celebrates excellence in hospitality and is given only to services that consistently achieve great reviews on TripAdvisor by continually delivering a high quality customer experience. 2015 is the third consecutive year that the Red Coat...

Five ways hoteliers can attract more guests

With peak travel season is fast approaching, hoteliers are seeking out for the ways to invite more guests, but how things will be executed appropriately is something they are still untouched with. If you are also waking up after a long seasonal gap, be prepared to welcome the flock of guests since autumn is round the corner. Let’s wash up the dirty windows, burnish the silver and do all other little things for which you don’t have time during the peak season, especially while you are running apart hotels (like http://www.spaceaparthotel.com ), hostels and other accommodation businesses....

Adventure travel climbs in popularity

Gone are the days that an action filled family holiday would mean packing up and heading to Eastbourne for a long weekend, as new research reveals that just 11% are opting for a caravan holiday and only 6% are planning a camping trip. Mountaineering, mountain biking and canoeing are now fast becoming the most popular activities for British families.

The rise of adventure travel has been widely discussed and figures from Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA)** shows families opting for activity filled holidays in exotic destinations increased by a staggering 65% in 4 years,...

Buckfast Abbey to host storytelling festival

In celebration of 30 years of providing inspirational, hands-on learning experiences to schools across the region, Buckfast Abbey’s Education Department will play host to a major Christian Storytelling Festival from 2nd to 4th July. Set in idyllic gardens with the magnificent backdrop of Buckfast Abbey, a working Benedictine monastery just off the A38 and within easy reach of Exeter and Plymouth and surrounding areas, the three-day extravaganza of storytelling, theatre and puppetry will include school visits on the first two days and culminate in a fabulous Family Day on Saturday 4th July...

Bluebells victorious at Greenway

National Trust gardeners at the much loved holiday home of Agatha Christie, Greenway, are celebrating a huge swing to the bluebells after one of the finest showings in many years brought visitors to its woodland gardens.

Last year Greenway gardeners were battling the invasive and unwelcome Three Cornered Leek which is similar in appearance to a white bluebell, but with a distinctive smell and a narrow green stripe down the centre of each petal.

Simon Akeroyd, Head Gardener said, “The Three Cornered Leek can smother bluebells and has a strong onion smell whereas our native...

Summer set to start with a flumin’ good bang!

Get ready to ‘ooh’ and ‘ahhh’ on Goodrington Sands this May Day Bank Holiday weekend as Splashdown Quaywest open its doors for the summer with an Opening Weekend Firework Extravaganza, free for visitors and residents alike.

As darkness falls on Saturday 2nd May, watch in awe as Splashdown’s annual Firework show returns for its 2nd year. From 9.15pm, enjoy a stunning show full of spectacular colours and a truly wonderful display managed by renowned firework technicians Firemagic UK.

Visitors can watch the Fireworks from Youngs Park and the beach at Goodrington Sands, and for...

Exeter Airport reports a busy Easter

Easter was the busiest period of the year so far for Exeter Airport with over sixteen and a half thousand inbound and outbound passengers using the airport over the holiday period; a figure which was helped by the re-introduction of the Flybe ‘sun routes’ to Alicante, Malaga and Faro.

A high level of bookings on the other Flybe services, together with those of Skybus and Thomson flights which operated to as far away as Sharm El Sheikh, meant that the airport was over fifteen percent busier than Easter last year.

Exeter Airport managing director Matt Roach said: “The Easter...

Sun route flights return for Easter

Flybe, the Exeter-based airline, has re-introduced a series of ‘sun route’ flights to Alicante, Malaga and Faro to coincide with the first Bank Holiday of 2015.

The routes to Spain and Portugal from Exeter have started ahead of the Easter break and operate until late September with a frequency of up to four per week from May when Palma Majorca is also introduced into the Flybe schedule.

Thomson Holidays have already started their 2015 flights to the very popular Balearic Island and the all year-round Thomson flights to Sharm el Sheikh, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Cyprus and...

Holidays & Travel

Why Edinburgh Stories Begin on a Minibus

Embarrassing holiday habits revealed

Tourism awards deadline extended

Exeter attractions scoop top awards

Five ways hoteliers can attract more guests

Adventure travel climbs in popularity

Buckfast Abbey to host storytelling festival

Bluebells victorious at Greenway

Summer set to start with a flumin’ good bang!

Exeter Airport reports a busy Easter

Sun route flights return for Easter

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