VisitBritain is wooing families as the UK launches wonderful new attractions like Seven Stories, the Centre for Children’s Books featuring the country’s best-loved authors. For the younger ones, well-known favourites like Legoland will do the jobtoo.
Sydney wins World Youth Day 2008
About 250,000 people, including 80,000 overseas visitors will descend on Sydney to celebrate youthful aspirations. The week-long event in July 2008 takes place at Sydney’s Olympic Park.
Architect's home now a hotel
Visitors to Sri Lanka can now step inside the private world of one of Asia's most celebrated architects when his country estate, Lunuganga, opens as an exclusive boutique hotel later this year. Geoffrey Bawa created a 25-acre tropical garden over several decades, after purchasing an abandoned rubber estate at Bentota in l948. It will operate from December to April each year.
Of mushrooms and hotair balloons
Like a scene out of a fantasy movie, the Yangyang Pine Mushroom Festival is a pretty sight for the eyes. Floating into the sky in a hotair balloon to admire giant mushrooms is a whimsical experience you don’t get to do everyday, right?
JW Marriott keeps it fresh
Adding a twist to the saying fishing for compliments, new executive chef David Burley of JW Marriott Hotel Shanghai also shows that he indeed goes all out to please his diners.
Two legends collaborate
The Peninsula Hotels’ new global advertising campaign features the work of renowned portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz. “Portraits of Peninsula” is a collection of black-and-white photos that distinguishes Peninsula hotels as the world’s finest.
