Luxury tour company Ariodante has launched sabbatical tours with an arts and culture focus. This offers the chance to be 'immersed in and learn about culture, historical periods and the work of the greatest artists while travelling in luxury to any parts of the world they desire'. The sabbatical will appeal to those wanting 'meaningful' extended ti...

Travellers who visit Portugal can now subscribe to Portugal Travel Insurance, a travel insurance adapted to the Covid-19 pandemic to ensure all visitors they can travel around the country with confidence. It covers the entire national territory for Covid-19 medical, surgical, pharmaceutical and hospital expenses. The insurance also covers the expen...

Backwaters provides river day-cruises along waterways in France that are away from the regular tourist trail. Its navigations of the French system take in places that might not be accessible to conventional hotel boats. France and Belgium offer some 10,000 km of navigable inland waterways, mostly on more intimate rivers and canals not accessible to...

The Canary Islands is a Spanish archipelago off the coast of northwestern Africa. The group comprises the islands of Tenerife; Lanzarote; Gran Canaria; Fuerteventura; La Palma; La Gomera; El Hierro and La Graciosa. The Canary Islands Government has reached an agreement with AXA Spain on a travel assistance policy for all tourists to the Islands in ...

The annual Bird Photographer of the Year Competition organised by conservation charity Birds on the Brink saw photographers from around the world submit artistic images of birds, which were judged by an expert panel The winning entry, End of the Day, was an impressionistic image of a European Shag taken at Vardø in Norway by Majed AlZa'abi from Kuw...

Virgin Galactic has unveiled the cabin interior of VSS Unity - its first SpaceShipTwo vehicle, which has been designed in collaboration with Seymourpowell. Virgin Galactic will be a commercial spacecraft providing suborbital spaceflights to space tourists and suborbital launches for space science missions. SpaceShipTwo is air launched from beneath ...