Lizard Island Resort on the Great Barrier Reef

Reef encounter | South China Morning Post: "Lizard Island Resort on the Great Barrier Reef offers holistic escape among nature's wonders. Michael Sweet finds creatures and comforts to his liking." FROM 2,745 METRES, the aquamarine lagoons and coral cays of the Great Barrier Reef, fringed by ribbons of silky white surf, stretch out as far as the eye can see. With its divine beauty, flying over the reef is an almost spiritual experience. I'm en route to Lizard Island Resort, one of Australia's isolated luxury holiday destinations. The journey from the mainland takes 60 minutes, before the single-engine Cessna arcs gracefully to land on the island's tiny airstrip. Twenty-seven kilometres from the coast of Queensland and 250 kilometres northeast of Cairns, Lizard Island sits in a pristine area of the Great Barrier Reef. The resort's symbiotic relationship with the reef is the core of its profound appeal. Delivering understated luxury with a breathtaking reef encounter has consistently placed the resort in the Top 10 Hotels of the World list.

Travel Picks: Top 10 fire festivals around the world
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - As clocks turn back, days get shorter, temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere plummet and 2012 draws to a close, there's no better time to strike a match and light those dark skies up with color. That's why online travel consultants ...

Travel Postcard: 48 hours in chilled out Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Reuters
KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia (Reuters) - A traveller's first stop in Borneo, the world's third largest island, should be Kota Kinabalu. It's the capital of Malaysia's Sabah state, with nearby islands and forests, scrumptious seafood, tribal cultures and a ...

Friday Travel Ticker: NY tourism rebooting
Los Angeles Times
Red double-decker tour buses have begun rolling again in New York and Circle Line boats have started plying the waterways as tourism took a few more baby steps toward normalization after the super storm Sandy, AP reports. The Empire State Building, ...

Telefonica Sells Online Travel Agency Rumbo to Bravofly
Businessweek
Tourism company Bravofly SA, based in Chiasso, Switzerland, will buy Telefonica's stake and also the 50 percent held by Spanish travel operator Orizonia. The deal is worth about 74 million euros ($95 million), Bravofly spokesman Andrew Buswell said via ...

Flying gets easier but travel woes still persist
The Associated Press
Flying gets easier but travel woes still persist. By DAVID KOENIG, Associated Press Writers – 11 minutes ago. NEW YORK (AP) — Planes are getting up to speed faster than trains and automobiles in the storm-stricken Northeast. All the region's major ...

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Jordan's Surprise Luxury Tourism Trend
Forbes
Other hotels are opening in the next two years, as well, according to Dr. Abed Al Razzaq Arabiyat, managing director of the Jordan Tourism Board, including the 300-room Fairmont Amman in 2014, the Luxury Collection's 200-room Al Manara, Aqaba in late ...

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LA Tourism Goes Social, Hooks Up With Savvy Locals
ClickZ
Like all city tourism sites, the new LA hub is competing with a growing list of travel search engines, destination ratings sites, and hotel booking platforms. Consequently, it has to be more than just a comprehensive directory, events calendar, and ...

Christie Approves Atlantic County Request To Lift Travel Ban In ...
By SteveBeck
Governor Chris Christie Thursday announced that he has granted the Atlantic County government's request to rescind the mandatory evacuation order for many Jersey shore communities.
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Pet Travel Q&amp - PawNation
By Kelly E. Carter
Is there anything more heartbreaking than the sound of your pooch whimpering when you leave it behind? Or your kitty's sad yowls while you pack your suitcase for vacation? If only you could bring your pet with you everywhere you go. With a ...
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Disaster Tourism Hits the Big Apple - Yahoo! News
They still have disaster tourism in New Orleans that tours the 8th Ward from ... In the 1970s and 80s, any tourism to NYC couldn't help but be "disaster tourism." ...
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Travel Challenge: Christmas in Cambodia - Asia - Travel - The ...
Each week we invite three companies to offer us their best deal for a specific break. Today: a trip to Cambodia over Christmas. Prices are per person, based on ...
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U.S. Travel Projects 98,800 New Travel Jobs in 2013
U.S. Travel Projects 98800 New Travel Jobs in 2013. ... NYC & Company. NYC & Company is the official tourism company of New York City.
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djournal.com - Tupelo city tourism bureau wins big
The bureau won the Southeast Tourism Society's award of CVB of the Year in the ... The Tupelo CVB was recognized for its yearlong travel market research ...
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Expedia Books Me Into 4 Hotels I Can't Stay In – The Consumerist
Without a place to stay, he used his phone to book a room at a Manhattan hotel. Little did ...Eventually, he got Expedia to book him into another hotel. Actually ...
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SeaDream Yacht Club Goes Golfing in the Caribbean
Travel Agent
SeaDream Yacht Club has teamed up with a dozen golf courses throughout the Caribbean for voyages on the mega-yachts Sea Dream I and Sea Dream II through the end of April 2013. Travelers will be able to play courses designed by big names like ...

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Disney's Yacht Club Resort - TripAdvisor
Disney's Yacht Club Resort: Disney Yacht Club, a whole different Disney experience. - See 684 traveler reviews, 313 candid photos, and great deals for Orlando ...
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A nerd’s dream voyage, lectures included - The Globe and Mail: " On my first afternoon on board the Aegean Odyssey, I fell into conversation with a gentleman with enormous eyebrows and a teasing smile. We were waiting for the first on-board lecture to begin, a talk entitled Sailing From Byzantium, to be delivered by Dr. Robin Cormack, a fellow of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London."

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