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The sheer volume of festivals in the UK is testament to our love of them. But if the idea of spending three days in a field without clean running water doesn’t fill you with excitement, why not try something a little bit different? With drags queens galore and more pink than you could eat, queer festivals are a dazzling antidote to the muddy battlefields of Glastonbury. Throw in groundbreaking art, film and live performance, and you really don’t need to fall into the LGBT category to enjoy all that the UK’s best gay festivals have to offer.

It looks like the nationals of France are in for a treat. Those that are looking to board British Airways in the Nice Cote d'Azur airport will have a lot of leeway this time. This is because the airline has been reported to employ a strategy which ensures that the airway line service is enhanced from France to the English capital in Gatwick, London City and Heathrow.

The Egyptian tourism minister announced in the Arabian Hotel Investment Conference Egypt's plan of looking for other tourism markets such as Japan and the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) countries to further increase tourism profit and meet the USD 25 Billion revenue planned for 2017.

Buenos Aires became the 1st city in Latin America In 2004 to legitimize civil unions, and same sex marriages in 2010. A steady sexual relaxation has granted not only local people but also gay visitants to enjoy whole the city has to provide without worrying. Buenoss Aires is separated into forty-eight barrios (neighborhoods), several which meet the gay-friendly hotels, bars, and clubs, restaurants into some square blocks. Not amazingly, they're also barrios where the historic sites and cultural offers are clustered. You'll find yourself correctly at home in trendy Palermo, posh Recoleta and the burbling Microcentro (downtown). Another barrios such as Nuñez, Barrio Norte, Belgrano and even the conventional Colegiales are also of concern and progressively gay-infused.

Tourists have vastly different tastes. While some would prefer the hustle and bustle of the city culture in the metropolis, others would be more suited to the silent grandeur that a visit to a historical site would bring. Now here is where Harbin, the largest city in the Heilongjiang Province in China, comes in. Also known as "Oriental Paris" or "Oriental Moscow," this place provides a unique mix of two very different cultures: the "old" Chinese culture, and a taste of the more visibly modern Western zeitgeist.

The quality of the Swiss hotels is deteriorating because of the cash crunch and unfavorable exchange rate faced by the hotel sector in the last couple of years and more in last few months. Most of these are small Swiss hotels with lack of scope to grow. The absence of marketing is making it worse.

Dubai: According to the federal government's tourism regulatory body, the National Council for Tourism and Antiquities (NCTA), Dh 22 billion was generated last year from the United Arab Emirate's (UAE) tourism industry. 14.5 million guests were served in hotels and hotel apartments during that period with guest nights reaching slightly over 44.3 million. This was 15 per cent higher than levels witnessed in the year 2010 as the occupancy rate of hotels rose to 70 per cent.

The whole world is converging together this May in one of the most important events in history. The World Expo 2012 is being attended by more than 100 countries in hopes of furthering world relations and sharing each other's culture and interpretations. With the excitement and all the festivities occurring around the host country, South Korea began construction of the site in May 12 in the city of Yeosu.

Think of Rome, and the next word you think of probably wouldn’t be ‘modern.’ Majestic, perhaps; historic – definitely, but not exactly contemporary or avant-garde. Most tourists flock to Rome to gaze in wonder at the stone relics of the Roman Empire – the Colosseum, the Pantheon and the Forum among them. But if your affinity lies more with the more up-to-date, then believe it or not, this ancient city has something to offer if you look hard enough.

The emergence of social media sites which foster quick and updated information. It has become a part of every discretionary traveler since these sites are home to unlimited information. They show even more interest because of its accessibility. Even mobile booking has become easier with the addition of network capabilities in phones. It has become a common theme in executives, as well as the leisure travelers.