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Local travel suppliers have new direct-sales service through Your Holiday Promotion, free through September

With a view to becoming the largest and most trusted holiday clearinghouse on the web, Your Holiday Promotion, a new service for special travel deals and offers, now connects local travel- and leisure-sector merchants directly with travel agents and independent travelers. Unlike most travel sites, Your Holiday Promotion is not a commission-earning middleman, but a […]

In motion: local transport from around the world

This autumn, The Travel Word team has been thinking a lot about transportation. All too often, tourist transit and local transport are two separate spheres in the same destination. They just don’t intersect. Tourists seek the comfort and convenience of flights, taxis or tourist bus services that have been developed with them in mind, while […]

The Local Voices Rally and Tally for Local Travel Experts

Whether you’re a consumer or an entrepreneur, if you’ve got anything more than a pinkie toe dipped into the world of online businesses, you probably marvel as much as we do at the pace of change in that space. It’s like an extra-super-megastore that rearranges the contents of its aisles every day, comes up with […]

Top five picks for volunteer holidays

According to The International Ecotourism Society, volunteer travel is one of the fastest-growing segments of the tourism market. Environmentally and socially aware travellers now require more from their overseas trips than lounging on a beach and checking out the local watering holes. As a result, the number of initiatives that combine traditional sightseeing with helping […]

Green Path Transfers launches global eco-friendly airport transfer service of local operators

Green Path Transfers (GPT) launched today as a global provider of eco-friendly airport and intercity transfers. The newest subsidiary of the WHL Group, GPT answers the needs of leisure and business travellers seeking cost-effective ways to reduce their carbon footprints.

Local food: a culinary world tour

When it comes to life’s simple pleasures, food definitely ranks near (if not at) the top of the list for most people. It’s probably fair to say that the way to a whole nation’s heart is through its stomach, so finding out what makes a country tick is often as simple as checking out what […]

Anyone for a Lime&Tonic in Prague?

The WHL Group has this past week launched its latest online venture, called Lime&Tonic (L&T), an exciting new business in the service of independent travellers and locals alike. L&T is a fresh twist on the travel industry that is breaking new ground. It’s a GroupOn-style ‘collective-buying’ site with a TripAdvisor-style traveller-rated destination guide. See how […]

The Local Travel Movement in movement

When the Local Travel Movement soft-launched on March 10 of this year, we had high hopes but no real sense of what would happen. Now, nearly four short months later (exactly three months since we started pressing word to the general public), we’re very pleased. We trust that you too have found some value in […]