
A report to be released later this month will uncover the most visible boutique and lifestyle hotels online and the most common strategies employed by prospective globe-trotters when it comes to searching for bespoke accommodation.

A recent survey of the global hotel market revealed Oceania as a global leader, with the most positive sentiment of any region in the world when it comes to current levels of optimism and growth in the hotel sector.

When I meet Ben Quilty he looks and smells exactly as I imagined. He’s dressed in a flannelette shirt, jeans and sneakers, with scruffy hair and a beard that’s fiercely thick. He smells of oil paint and I can see it still jammed under his fingernails. Sitting in a leafy courtyard at the National Art School, Quilty disarms me with his warm and welcoming presence despite the obvious emotion he displays as we start discussing his latest exhibition.

Sustainable travel is in the agenda in Oregon with the recent establishment of the Oregon Travel Philanthropy Fund.

They have been dubbed the Dad’s army of the sea, but this old rust bucket is being repurposed as a modern day Letter of Marque – the first in more than two decades.

A number of new and improved rail services are being rolled out across Europe as travellers seek out less convention holiday destinations.
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The dinghy kisses the sand, you hop out into the crystaline water and walk on to a beach on whcih the hand of man has not set foot for hundreds of years. It's possiblle with True North's West Coast Explorer, which revisits the incredible story of the Batavia, which sailed in 1628 from Holland bound [...]
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As culture, business and leisure intersect in destinations as diverse as Berlin, Abu Dhabi and Bangkok, a new global traveller has emerged – multi-national and cross-generational, mobile and jet-setting.

Australia’s solitary island state Tasmania is often considered a world of its own, but it seems the island’s exclusive location and unique flora and fauna are encouraging more and more travellers, both domestic and international, to cross the Bass Strait and venture into unknown territory.

The Noosa International Food and Wine Festival is set to start the new year off with a bang, with an impressive line-up of culinary stars for their tenth anniversary event.