Once Sir Richard Branson was finally up in space, he posted a video of himself on board his rocket plane. ‘To all you kids down there, I was once a child with a dream, looking up at the stars,’ he said. ‘Now I’m an adult in a spaceship, with lots of other wonderful adults looking … Read more
James Blunt has hit out at a selfish boater who ruined his first post lockdown outing in a paradise cove – by anchoring right next to him. The singer, 47, had found an idyllic spot for a family picnic on the sunshine island of Ibiza, where he lives, deliberately locating a deserted mooring. Speaking on … Read more
Travel chiefs reacted with fury tonight as ministers warned Britons not to book foreign holidays and refused to rule out extending the international travel ban into summer. Boris Johnson confirmed plans to replace the foreign holidays ban with a ‘traffic light’ system which would open up quarantine-free travel to destinations rated green. Higher-risk locations would … Read more
There was hope for summer holidays last night after it emerged that a traffic-light system could allow flights abroad to resume. Trips to Bahrain, the US, the Maldives, Israel and Malta could be the first available for Britons desperate to get abroad due to their high vaccination rates. The scheme to enable quarantine-free travel to … Read more
Tourism chiefs are calling for an additional day off in September in a bid to boost visitor numbers to attractions hard hit by the pandemic. Attractions such as museums, theme parks, galleries and stately home struggled in 2020 as coronavirus restrictions forced them to close overnight. Tightening restrictions, a sharp fall in foreign visitors and … Read more
Hamish and Zoë Foster Blake get up close and personal with crocodiles while filming a new Australian tourism advert By Louise Starkey For Daily Mail Australia Published: 00:01 GMT, 26 March 2021 | Updated: 00:22 GMT, 26 March 2021 They’re ambassadors for Tourism Australia’s new Holiday Here This Year campaign to encourage Australians to travel … Read more
Prince Harry has lost a key member of staff from his sustainable tourism initiative Travalyst after the travel industry was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. Heather Wong, who worked as the Duke of Sussex‘s assistant private secretary at Kensington Palace for three years before he and Meghan Markle, 39, quit the Royal Family, has … Read more
Unlike other commercial spaceflight companies, such as Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic initiates its flights without using a traditional rocket launch. Instead, the firm launches its passenger-laden SpaceShipTwo and other craft from a carrier plane, dubbed WhiteKnightTwo. WhiteKnightTwo is a custom-built, four-engine, dual-fuselage jet aircraft, designed to carry SpaceShipTwo up to an altitude of around 50,000 … Read more
In anticipation of NASA‘s Perseverance rover landing on Mars Thursday, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is taking an opportunity to slam space agencies and governments for using billions of dollars to visit other planets when our own’s suffering. Thunberg, 18, released a satirical tourism ad for the Red Planet that is aimed at the ‘one percent,’ … Read more
In anticipation of NASA‘s Perseverance rover landing on Mars Thursday, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is taking an opportunity to slam space agencies and governments for using billions of dollars to visit other planets when our own’s suffering. Thunberg, 18, released a satirical tourism ad for the Red Planet that is aimed at the ‘one percent,’ … Read more