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2010-03-09 Travel Daily UK

Blackpool celebrating British Tourism Week

Blackpool is joining the British Tourism Week celebrations throughout this month. Tourism is a major contributor to the seaside towns economy, worth an estimated 1 billion and drawing in...

2010-03-09 The Scotsman

Travel: Hadrian's Wall

THERE are various different lists of the seven 'wonders' of the...

2010-03-08 Daily Mail

It's a Shambles... but it's also Britain's most picturesque street

A cobbled shopping street dating back to the middle ages has been voted Britain's most picturesque street, it was announced today. The Shambles in York, which is lined with buildings dating back to the 15th century, took the prize in the Google Street View...

2010-03-08 The Gulf Today

Don't Be Late You've Got A Very Important Date In Britain

Dubai, United Arab Emirates March 8, 2010 Journey down the rabbit hole into a unique and enchanted adventure in Britain. VisitBritain, the national tourist office for England, Scotland and Wales invites travelers to visit the British sites that inspired Lewis Carroll to create the dream-like story.

2010-03-08 IOL Travel.co.za

Where romantics and poetry meet : Europe

Snow flurries swirl across the road and into my eyes and the camera lens as I try to record the wild magnificence of the lake and mountains before us. It's bitingly cold, so it will only be a short period that we're out with our cameras before we scuttle back into the warmth of the...

2010-03-07 ShermansTravel Blogs

Dispatch from the New York Times Travel Show

The annual New York Times Travel Show docked at Manhattans Jacob Javits Center last weekend, stoking our wanderlust with over 500 exhibitors, from the Finger Lakes to the...

2010-03-07 Asbury Park Press (AP)

Follow in the footsteps of "Alice" author Carroll

VisitBritain, the national tourist office for England, Scotland and Wales, is showcasing the British sites that inspired Lewis Carroll to create the dreamlike story "Alice in Wonderland," which has been made into a highly anticipated movie now playing in theaters, with Johnny Depp heading an all-star..

2010-03-05 New York Post Blog (AP)

UPDATE: Go ask Alice

Set-jetters wondering where Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and Anne Hathaway filmed the otherwise marvelously CG'd world of Alice in Wonderland can look to one site, and one site only: Antony House , a National Trust and 18th-century, family-owned mansion in Cornwall, England the only real house that appears in...

2010-03-05 Female First

British Tourism Week Needs You!

Its coming up to the annual British Tourism Week (15th 21st March 2010), so if youre thinking of exploring the British Isles, then visit the Isle of Man, a beautiful and well kept secret in the middle of the Irish...

2010-03-05 E-tid.com

Heritage tourism worth more than car industry

Visits to Britains museums, castles, parks and historic houses can play a key role in boosting the flagging economy, according to a report out...

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