Destinations
Australia’s tourism problems Tourism in Australia is currently struggling. It doesn’t take a genius to work out why – the Australian dollar is so high at the moment that it makes the country extremely expensive to visit. There’s no point pretending otherwise, which is why Ben Groundwater’s recent post on the Sydney Morning Herald website [...]
As Jeremy Head rightly points out in his new post, there is so much destination guide content festering on the internet that much of it becomes interchangeable. Why, in essence, should you go to one site’s guides above another’s? Many websites – be they for hotel, airlines or generic travel companies trying to build their [...]
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Places you just don’t like When you’re travelling, it’s inevitable that there are going to be some places that you just don’t like. I have less-than-fond memories of Catania in Sicily, largely because I was stuck in the rain for hours with nowhere to hide, and Ostrava in the Czech Republic will always be a [...]
Hot destinations lists It’s that time of year again where every guidebook publisher, newspaper travel section and website trots out its list of the top ten hot travel destinations for 2010. From Lonely Planet to the Guardian, you can guarantee that anyone who’s anyone will have their own spurious list. And, therefore, Grumpy Traveller shall [...]
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