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ITB Berlin 2020 cancelled, but A Luxury Travel Blog appointments still go on!

By Paul Johnson on Feb 29, 2020 in A Luxury Travel Blog, Europe, Events, Featured, Germany, Regions, Travel Miscellany, Western Europe

Every year, for the past 54 years, ITB Berlin (Internationale Tourismus-Börse Berlin) – a major event in the travel industry calendar – takes place at exhibition grounds in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district of Berlin, at a venue called Messe Berlin. The event has grown to be the biggest travel fair in the world, with around 10,000 […]

Win: 9 global getaways and a luxury round-the-world trip!

By Paul Johnson on Nov 21, 2019 in A Luxury Travel Blog, Air Travel, Attractions, Featured, Going Out, New York, North America, Regions, Restaurants, Speciality Travel, Travel Miscellany, USA

How do you fancy winning a luxury trip to the Big Apple? We’ve teamed up with our good friends at Lottoland, the world’s leading online lottery betting company, to give you an exclusive ‘Passport to Paradise’ opportunity to win one of nine global getaways and a luxury round-the-world-trip. Free draw, exclusive to A Luxury Travel […]

Latest news from A Luxury Travel Blog

By Paul Johnson on May 22, 2019 in A Luxury Travel Blog, Featured, Travel Miscellany

It’s been a while since I posted an update with news specifically about the blog, so I thought I’d take a quick hour out of my day to share a few new developments, firstly by mentioning one or two nice pieces of recognition that I’ve been receiving. In the last couple of months, I’ve been […]

Our £10,000 and $10,000 luxury travel contests!

By Paul Johnson on May 13, 2019 in A Luxury Travel Blog, Featured, Travel Miscellany

Yesterday we reached a significant milestone – we published our 10,000th blog post. Yes, you heard that right… it’s taken us almost 14 years to get there, but we now host more than 10,000 articles here on A Luxury Travel Blog!! And to celebrate this accomplishment, we’re planning on running two very exciting competitions over […]

10 good intentions for A Luxury Travel Blog in 2019… plus your suggestions, please!

By Paul Johnson on Jan 01, 2019 in A Luxury Travel Blog, Featured, Travel Miscellany

Happy New Year! We hope all our readers have had a very Merry Christmas and are looking forward to the year ahead. We also want to thank you for your past support and take this opportunity to share with you some of our plans for the site for the year ahead. 2019 is set to […]

18 of the most-read luxury travel stories of 2018

By Paul Johnson on Dec 25, 2018 in A Luxury Travel Blog, Featured, Travel Miscellany

With the New Year just around the corner, we thought we’d celebrate yet another successful year for A Luxury Travel Blog (we are now entering our 14th year of running the blog!) by looking back on the past 12 months and sharing with you our 18 most popular stories from 2018. These are the most […]

The new TripAdvisor – the internet’s answer to Facebook for travel?

By Paul Johnson on Nov 14, 2018 in A Luxury Travel Blog, Featured, Travel Miscellany, Websites

Have you seen the new Tripadvisor? You may not have noticed it, but the world’s most popular online travel community (with its almost 500 million unique monthly users) has recently undergone a major overhaul. For the past few months A Luxury Travel Blog has been proud to be one of a select group of online […]

A Luxury Travel Blog at World Travel Market and Arabian Travel Market

By Paul Johnson on Oct 09, 2018 in A Luxury Travel Blog, Events, Travel Miscellany

Hot on the heels of last month’s Luxperience event, A Luxury Travel Blog will be in attendance at next month’s World Travel Market as well as at Arabian Travel Market next April. If you would like to meet at either of these events to discuss how we can help your travel business, please get in […]

Vuelio Blog Awards 2018

By Paul Johnson on Sep 27, 2018 in A Luxury Travel Blog, Featured, Travel Miscellany

I am delighted to announce that A Luxury Travel Blog has been shortlisted for another award. Earlier this week, an email landed in my inbox, congratulating me on being shortlisted as a finalist for the Travel & Leisure Category in the Vuelio Blog Awards 2018. Vuelio, for those who don’t know, is a leading UK […]

Never miss another post from A Luxury Travel Blog again!

By Paul Johnson on Aug 27, 2018 in A Luxury Travel Blog, Travel Miscellany

Do you wish you could be notified whenever we publish something new? In the past this has been possible if you use our RSS feed, but this is a little technical for some. Now being among the first to know when there’s a new post on A Luxury Travel Blog has become a whole lot […]

Luggage tags made by a 12 year old – all proceeds go to charity!

By Paul Johnson on Feb 25, 2018 in A Luxury Travel Blog, Accessories, Featured, Luggage, Travel Equipment, Travel Miscellany

Our younger son, Tom, recently returned from school, telling us all about The Tenner Challenge, an initiative designed to get children to try their hand at entrepreneurship. Students are given £10 to invest in a product or service, and to see what they can turn that sum into in just 4 weeks. Tom has decided […]

Win a trip with Teletext Holidays worth up to £1,000!

By Paul Johnson on May 11, 2017 in A Luxury Travel Blog, Europe, Regions, Travel Miscellany, United Kingdom, Western Europe

Cheapflights UK – in partnership with Teletext Holidays – are celebrating the very best in UK travel, and they’re looking for your help. The first ever Cheapflights awards took place in South Africa last year and they have now taken that concept and introduced it to the UK, giving their users and the wider public […]

Celebrating over a million social media followers with some new business cards

By Paul Johnson on May 09, 2017 in A Luxury Travel Blog, Featured, Travel Miscellany

I’m delighted to announce that A Luxury Travel Blog now has over a million followers across its various social media channels. Over 700,000 followers on Twitter, around 300,000 page likes on Facebook, over 20,000 on Instagram, and approximately 10,000 each on both Google+ and Pinterest, not to mention a few hundred thousand on some secondary […]

Thank you for the invitation to your event but…

By Paul Johnson on Aug 18, 2016 in A Luxury Travel Blog, Travel Miscellany

Every day I get invited to some travel-related event or other. Just today, for example, I’ve been asked to afternoon tea to hear about a resort in Antigua, had the pleasure of my company requested for a VIP event for a members-only luxury airline, received an invitation for a drinks evening for a luxury apartment […]

And the winner of Best Travel Blog is…

By Paul Johnson on May 13, 2016 in A Luxury Travel Blog, Featured, Travel Miscellany

I’ve been meaning to mention this for a while but things have been so busy. Earlier this year I was shortlisted for the award of Best Travel Blog in the Travelmole Web Awards and I attended an awards ceremony sponsored by Pure Michigan at the Rah Rah Room in London’s Piccadilly area. The awards aim […]

#1 out of 1,000+ travel blogs!

By Paul Johnson on Apr 22, 2016 in A Luxury Travel Blog, Travel Miscellany

I’m pleased to report that A Luxury Travel Blog has moved up two places on the Rise #travel1k Top 1000+ Travel Blogs to occupy the number one spot. Published by Rise Market Insight, the leaderboard ranks thousands of travel bloggers by scoring them on their social media influence. It is released on Wednesdays each week. […]

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