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Olympic football games in both the men’s and women’s tournaments will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, at Hampden Park, the national football stadium, from July 25, to August 3, 2012. As it gears up for the event, the city is also celebrating 2012 as the Year of Creative Scotland, and is welcoming the arrival of its international visitors with musicians, including American piper, Megan Canning, and French drummer, Iona Sicard-Cras from Piping Live, who along with other musicians, will be playing as part of the world’s biggest week of piping, from August 6 to 12, 2012. Scott Taylor, the chief…
Rooms are still available for less than £100 a night for last minute visitors to London for the 2012 Olympic Games commencing this month, said UK-based holiday company, HolidayExtras.com. The company has reported that hotels, such as the four-star Heathrow Renaissance, have rooms available for £86 per night, between July 27 and August 12, 2012. The hotel is located close to London Heathrow Airport terminals 1 and 3, and has easy access to central London by transport links. Olympic ticket holders may also reserve a room at a Heathrow Undercover hotel, or an unnamed hotel, for £99 per night at…
Airline passengers feel that a move by Airbus, an aircraft manufacturer, to offer extra-wide seats on its A320 family of aircraft, is unfair, reports UK-based flight search engine, Skyscanner. Previously, Airbus announced that it is considering the replacement of some of its standard A320 aircraft seats, measuring 18 inches wide, with new extra wide aisle seats that have a total width of 20 inches. The new seats will be offered in rows where regular seats will be reduced to a width of 17 inches. Around 1,000 people have responded to s survey conducted by Skyscanner, and over three-quarters of them,…
Fans of The Beatles pop band can now enjoy the ultimate live-aboard experience by booking accommodation on the Fab-Four-themed Yellow Submarine. The iconic bright yellow vessel is moored at Albert Dock in the city of Liverpool, the hometown of all four members of the band. It is a converted canal narrow boat, but now has a psychedelic sixties-style interior that includes one of the scooters from the film, Quadrophenia. The brainchild of Alfie Bubbles, a businessman, the Yellow Submarine takes its inspiration from The Beatles EP of the same name that was released in January 1969, and the animated movie…
Paris is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, but for those who like to stray from the tourist spots it can be a bit of a cliché. However, there are some great ways to head to the French capital and try out some of its more unusual delights – and keep costs low along the way. How should I travel? As I live in Gillingham, which is just an hour’s drive from Dover, it makes a lot of sense for me to drive to Paris. Last year, I had a look at what it would cost for…
Some of the best loved musicals are being staged in London’s West End right now, as well as some dramatic adaptations of the most popular books and films of recent years. From the beautiful new performance of Ghost, featuring music from the Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart and every bit living up to the original 1990 movie starring Demi Moore and the late great Patrick Swayze; to the first West End staging of childrens’ favourite Shrek. The Theatre Royal Drury Lane imagining of Dreamworks’ 2001 kids’ classic is proving to be just as popular as the big screen version on websites vending…
There has been so much hype and negative publicity surrounding the allocation and pricing of tickets for events at the forthcoming London Olympics, that it may have gone almost unnoticed that there will be plenty of opportunity for fans on a restricted budget to witness sporting action firsthand, without having to pay for tickets at all. Some of the events take place on such a grand scale that only the most prime viewing locations can be cordoned off for ticket holders, providing ample opportunity for the rest of us to benefit from a free show. The most obvious of these…
Following a recent high-profile honeymoon in the island, Seychelles is promoting itself as the first choice for honeymooners to celebrate their wedding. The island nation is to promote its exotic mid-ocean islands as the most sought after wedding and honeymoon destination. The Island was recently featured in a full-page report in the UK-based Planning your Wedding Magazine. The Tourism Board of the island said that the much publicized honeymoon of Prince William and Kate Middleton a year ago has taken the name and fame of the island far and wide. An official with the board said, ‘but since that royal…
Tour operators conducting business in the SAARC nations have agreed to jointly promote tourism in the region. A Tour Operators Conclave was convened by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India in New Delhi earlier this month, and in the conclave tour operators were urged to work with each other to promote tourism in the SAARC nations. The minister for Tourism in India, Subodh Kant Sahai, said, ‘We must motivate each SAARC country in such a way that tourism becomes the focus of economic and political agenda. SAARC region has immense growth potential. If it could be fully utilized in…
Bridgetown, a popular tourist destination in Barbados, West Indies, has been added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO) World Heritage Site list. UNESCO officially handed over the honours to Bridgetown at its 35th session in Paris. After adding the site to the prestigious list, UNESCO said that Bridgetown and its Garrison are considered as ‘an outstanding example of British colonial architecture, offering a story which testifies to the spread of Great Britain’s Atlantic colonial empire.’ The addition to the list enhances the status of Bridgetown and places it in par with other world-renowned cultural sites such…