A COUNTRY THAT HAS PRESERVED IT’S RICH CULTURAL HERITAGE

High-speed rail company Brightline is making celebrating the holidays easy this year with $39 sale fares during Christmas and New Year’s.

If you’re looking for culture, activities, wildlife or sheer adventure, Indonesia is one of the richest countries in the world. With an estimated 13,466 islands, it's a whopper too. But Indonesia beyond Bali and Lombok (and the Gili Islands) remains largely unknown to many travelers. To pick just one example, Sumatra (80 times the size of Bali) is almost a world in itself. And yet people ask the question: “Is Indonesia worth visiting?”

You read it here first: Swiss travel investor Viadi Group has acquired British luxury villa rental marketplace, Edge Retreats. 

Protecting holiday spend remains a priority for over three quarters of Brits (77%) – up from 70% last year, with the majority even more likely to put money aside for a holiday in 2024 than 2023

Looking more closely at the reasons for changing attendance, 38% of corporates and 51% of associations/not for profits say the challenge is delegates’ unwillingness to travel long distances.  This is underpinned by 27% of the respondents saying their delegates are reticent to stay in hotels.

Jamaica’s feature within 007: Road To A Million showcases the captivating beauty of Kingston and the richness of Jamaican culture on a global stage.

Jamaica has a long association with the James Bond film franchise - it has provided a plethora of iconic locations, such as Doctor Kananga’s underground lair in Live and Let Die (1973) at Green Grotto Caves, and the waterfall from the first Bond film, Dr. No (1962), at Ocho Rios’ Dunn’s River Falls. Now, from the producers behind the James Bond films, comes the thrilling television series 007: Road To A Million.

Peru has announced plans to introduce a digital nomad visa. It will enable remote workers to stay in the country for 365 days, with the possibility to extend.

Alexandre Chapellier, 42, likes to say that he created his Parisian clothing and accessories brand, Cinabre — which sells velvet-trimmed dressing gowns and patterned silk neckties — in 2011 as an antidote to old-school luxury houses that take themselves too seriously. That lighthearted spirit is on display at the label’s new flagship, a combination boutique, office, atelier and two-suite minihotel now open for booking. One enters the four-story spot, located in a neo-Classical Ninth Arrondissement building, through a tent made from the same blue striped Pierre Frey fabric that adorns the walls of Napoleon’s Château de Malmaison. Inside, a vintage Denon DP-3000 turntable and Continental Edison speakers blast 1970s funk.

Long before she entered the tent as the elegantly erudite judge of The Great British Bake Off, Prue Leith was already enjoying a fascinating career: Born in Cape Town, South Africa, she studied at the Sorbonne in Paris before opening a Michelin-starred restaurant in London. Among her many, many roles in the decades since, she has written a dozen cookbooks and nearly as many novels, opened several culinary schools, and sat on the board of British Railways and Orient Express.

Virgin Atlantic made history on Tuesday by crossing the Atlantic Ocean with a jetliner powered entirely by sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

The UK Short-Term Accommodation Association (UKSTAA) conducted new research that identified nearly 2 million homes that local authorities consider “deliverable,” with as many as 1.5 million of them in the next five years.