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Snow arrives early

12:01pm Friday 14th December 2007

DUE to plentiful snowfalls and low temperatures ski resorts all over Austria have brought forward their winter openings by more than two weeks. In many areas there is already more than one metre of snow right down to the valley stations.

Festive singletons

12:00pm Friday 14th December 2007

THE Christmas and New Year brochure from singles holiday specialist Just You gives the option to spend Christmas, New Year or the entire festive season away from home with like-minded people.

The chain in Spain

11:59am Friday 14th December 2007

UK hotel chain Travelodge is to expand into Spain, opening 100 hotels and creating 2,000 new jobs by 2020, in a £700 million programme.

Over-50s just raring to go

11:59am Friday 14th December 2007

Today's over 50s look set to become some of the UK's most enthusiastic globetrotters over the next 10 years.

A British favourite

11:58am Friday 14th December 2007

THE island of Tenerife is a firm favourite with visitors from the UK and receives 45% of the total number of British tourists who holiday in the Canaries. So far in 2007 Tenerife has welcomed a total 1.3 million visitors to the island and enjoys a staggering 80% repeat clientele - 31.4% of them staying in five-star hotels.

Few are green travellers

11:57am Friday 14th December 2007

Most holidaymakers think international travel harms the environment, but few are prepared to change their own plans.

P&O seeks new cruise inspectors

11:57am Friday 14th December 2007

A carefully crafted sentence could win you a free cruise holiday in Summer 2008.

Jumbo perspective

2:33pm Wednesday 10th October 2007

Visitors to the western Loire city of Nantes will now be able to view the sights from a novel perspective - on the back of a giant mechanical elephant. The 12-metre high, eight-metre wide Great Elephant is part of an extraordinary permanent exhibition known as Machines de IIle de Nantes.

Olympics warning

2:30pm Wednesday 10th October 2007

Travel retailer Flight Centre is warning travellers to book holidays to China well in advance of next year's Beijing Olympics, August 8-24, and avoid the months running up to the Games, unless they want to pay a premium.

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