Branding is such an integral part of daily life these days that it is easy to think you barely notice them. Entire forests have been lost and turned into paper for the reams and reams of analysis done by large companies to figure out positive or negative effects on consumers of pictures, cartoon characters, fonts and colours that [...]

 It is easy when you are abroad to forget that some gestures and attempts to communicate – assuming you cannot converse in the local dialect – can be unintentionally offensive. In order to keep American travellers on the straight and narrow, Rick Steves – who offers a selection of European holidays – tries to stop [...]

It will come as no surprise to those of us who know the ‘real’ Tenerife that the BBC News at Ten presenter Huw Edwards has told the Daily Telegraph that it is one of his favourite destinations for a family holiday. You can read the article here.

Dubai’s ambition really is breathtaking. This tiny desert state, little more than a fishing village in the 1960s before it discoved oil in 1966, is running out of it fast, and is spending like there is no tomorrow.

When creating a travel programme called ‘Explore’ on a particular destination, it would seem important to make it spectacular and interesting, and a bit of exploring probably wouldn’t go amiss. When the BBC Explore series launched last Sunday night, I had high hopes for it, but perhaps the title of ‘Fleeting Mish Mash of Wonderful Argentine [...]