Travel Photographer of The Year Winners Announced, The Best Travel Photography of 2011

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Each year one awards body tries to find the most talented travel photographer of the year. So who made the cut in 2011?

Well, the results are in – and the guys over at Travel Photographer of The Year (TPOTY) have officially announced the overall winner this year as Louis Montrose. The winning image (below) shows a beautiful painted girl captured in a village in Burkina Faso. All of the winning photographs this year will be put on show at Continue Reading

The Only Way is Essex: TripAdvisor Reveals Most Popular Tourist Destinations of 2011

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Essex, made popular by its intelligent television programming and women with natural tans, is also the most popular tourist destination in the world at the moment – according to TripAdvisor.

The Easterly English county, but more specifically: Ilford – was revealed to have claimed the top spot this week in TripAdvisor’s round-up of Europe’s fastest growing destinations of 2011. Admittedly, this accomplishment may have more to do with the impending 2012 Olympic Games than the joys which the Continue Reading

G Adventures & Travel Blogger Gary Arndt Announce Exclusive Travel Photography Tour

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Adventure tour specialists, G Adventures and travel blogger, Gary Arndt, are to co-host an exclusive small group photography tour.

Departing May 5, 2012 the Great Wide Everywhere trip will explore a number of spectacular national parks and natural wonders around the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas, offering 11 travellers a unique opportunity to travel, learn and build their photography skills alongside Gary who is one of the world’s most influential travel bloggers and one of Continue Reading

Google Introduces ‘Schemer’ – An Inspiration App

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Google has come up with an innovative new service that is designed to feed you ideas of things you might do – activities, experiences – based on what your friends have done, or other people recommend in your location.

In short, it’s an inspiration engine.

The new website Schemer.com has been developed by a team of Google engineers and draws on content and recommendations from your social contacts including Google+ friends, and from destination/lifestyle news and content publishers Continue Reading