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Best travel destination marketing campaigns of 2022

December 21, 2022 admin

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(CNN) — When they’re good, they’re iconic. When they’re bad — well, at least you can usually laugh. We’re talking destination campaigns — when travel hotspots make a bid for your hard-earned vacation cash by producing extravagant videos and entire websites to grab your attention.

So how have they been this year — the first year since the pandemic started with few restrictions

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Forbes Magazine Listing Validates Virgin Gorda’s Position as a Top World Destination

December 7, 2022 admin

The Only Caribbean Island listed on Forbes Magazine’s Top 2023 Places to Visit

Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, 28th November 2022 ̶ The British Virgin Islands is proud to announce its crown jewel, Virgin Gorda has been chosen by the prestigious Forbes Magazine, as the destination that holds the eighth spot on the list of top destinations to visit in 2023. Virgin Gorda is the only Caribbean Island to make this prestigious list. In its article, “Here They Are: The 23 Best Places To Travel In 2023”, Forbes described Virgin Gorda as “a destination of clear calm waters that

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Best Restaurants in Banff, Canada Ski Destination

November 20, 2022 admin

Photo courtesy of Farm Fire

In the last two years, 11 fine dining restaurants have opened in Banff, a Canadian town with less than 10,000 year-round residents. For some, this restaurant boom is reminiscent of the one led by the railways in the 1800s, when the Canadian Pacific Railway was built as a passage from East to West. Others believe this portends an entirely new wave of growth.

The Alberta town known for its old-school, rustic charm sits alongside Banff National Park, a 2,500-square-mile expanse of picturesque lakes, hiking trails, valleys, and mountains. It’s one of the country’s biggest tourist

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Portugal named Europe’s best tourist destination

October 21, 2022 admin

The World Travel Awards are considered the “Oscars for the travel industry” and Portugal has once again been showered with accolades in the 2022 edition, accumulating 30 awards in a wide range of categories.

Pride of place goes to the country as a whole being voted Europe’s Leading Tourist Destination for the fifth time in the last six years.

Awards in other major categories include Europe’s Leading Adventure Tourism Destination (Azores), Europe’s Leading Beach Destination (Algarve) and Europe’s Leading City Destination (Porto).

“The votes are cast by thousands of professionals in the travel industry coming from all countries of the

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Space travel is a long way from its destination

October 19, 2022 admin

Illustration of an astronaut with luggage

Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios

The private human spaceflight industry will need to scale up and find new markets to reach its goal of resembling the airline industry to take people to space.

Why it matters: SpaceX and others have already begun selling their dream of rockets launching thousands of people to orbit, the Moon, Mars and even beyond.

But today, the private human spaceflight industry is a relatively small portion of the space economy and several hurdles stand in the industry’s way of reaching its goal.

Driving the news: SpaceX announced last week that an American couple purchased tickets to fly

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Is Algeria the next great travel destination in Africa?

October 14, 2022 admin

From the open roof of the watchtower, above the labyrinth of narrow alleys and serried rooftops, Ghardaïa appears as a rolling tableau of jumbled pastel cubes.

The only hints of modernity are the Tannoy speakers projecting from the mud-walled minarets at the summit of each hill. Otherwise, we could be looking at a scene from any century in the last 10.

Despite its proximity to Europe, and vast presence on the north coast of Africa–roughly the size of Alaska and Texas combined—Algeria and many of its most spectacular sights are little known to travelers outside of its borders.

“Algeria is

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