A surge in visitor numbers is damaging the Greenwich Meridian line, making it the latest in a long line of famous tourists sites to have become victims of their own success. Last year, Wanderlust magazine published a list of the world’s top visitor sites which were under threat – most of them from the huge [...]

Reykjavik is no longer prohibitively expensive, says Natalie Paris, who discovers that Iceland’s cosy capital doubles as a gateway to some dazzling natural wonders. Why go? Reykjavik is the world’s most northerly capital, a tiny city on the tip of a fiery and mostly uninhabited island. What it lacks in size, it makes up for [...]

Tourists will be charged to stand astride the Greenwich Meridian line after the Royal Observatory announced plans to introduce an entry fee. From March, tourists wanting to enter the World Heritage location will be charged £10. It comes amid a surge in visitor numbers damaging the site.It draws hundreds of thousands of tourists a year [...]

New York resident Douglas Rogers marvels at the beauty of the Big Apple in winter. Seven years ago, during my first winter in New York, my girlfriend and I took a “vacation” on the Upper East Side. I had just moved to the city from London and we were living in Harlem, barely five miles away, [...]

About 1,800 Britons are being flown home on emergency flights from strife-torn Tunisia, after trouble on the streets escalated. As rioters took to the streets and Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali, the Tunisian president, was forced to flee the country during a state of emergency, Thomas Cook announced it was pulling out all of its estimated [...]

A holiday resort in Limpopo province has been criticised following allegations that it refused entry to black visitors, in a case which risks reopening old wounds from South Africa’s apartheid era. Black and coloured visitors have reportedly been turned away from the Lekkerrus Holiday Resort, near Mookgopong in the country’s north, at least twice in [...]

Not a secret what to plan family holiday with children 10 times it is more difficult, than to one. And if to the child it will be boring, parents hardly will manage to relax and have a rest. In such cases the travel agency “Pac Group” advises to go to Finland and offers the diversified [...]