General News Kemptown MP calls for debate on Labour’s tourism tax Simon Kirby MP for Kemptown & Peacehaven this morning called in the House of Commons for a debate of the Labour Party’s proposed tourism tax and its potential impact to Brighton & Hove. Speaking during Business Questions, the Kemptown MP expressed his concerns over such a tax and called on Labour to By Besi • 5 min read
Cllr Warren Morgan News Hove MP Urges Caution Over Tourism Tax Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade, has joined the growing group of local hotel owners, business owners and politicians opposing a Labour national proposal for a tourist tax, describing it “unworkable and damaging”. Brighton & Hove relies heavily on the revenue that it recei By Besi • 2 min read
International News Curaçao to host its first Gay Pride Willemstad, the capital of the Caribbean island of Curaçao, will host the island’s first Gay Pride week with seminars, ceremonies and parties between September 25-29. A masked street dance, a movie marathon, an awards ceremony and the first Caribbean Conference on Women and Sexual Diversity are just By Besi • 1 min read
Features & Longread On the road to Le Mans Mention the name Le Mans to most people and all they can tell you that it is the place where they have a 24 hours road race every year, they are not even sure where it is. We were driving from Dieppe down to the south west of France and decided that we should break […] By Roger Wheeler • 4 min read
News Council recruits for new tourism advisory board Tourism chiefs at Brighton & Hove City Council are looking for voluntary experts to join a new tourism advisory board to help shape the future of the city’s tourism strategy. The city’s official marketing body, VisitBrighton, already works with over 400 partner businesses including hotels, shops, at By Besi • 2 min read
News Cruising at Brighton Marina You would have thought that with the Brighton Marina being right on the door step, someone would have thought about offering Rainbow Cruises before. Well they haven’t, not until now that is. Brighton Sea Cruises ran their first Rainbow Cruise last month. There is no better way to see the city than f By Besi • 2 min read
Features & Longread Glorious Paros For many years the Greek Islands have been regarded as the expensive holiday choice, not any more. The Greeks with their well known financial problems have woken up to the fact that if they want tourists (and they certainly do) they had to adjust their prices and they have. Not having any real idea By Roger Wheeler • 4 min read
News Bath to benefit from tourism initiative Businesses in the City of Bath are to benefit from visitors receiving a special welcome pack from Bath Tourism Plus if accomodation is booked through the VisitBath website. The pack will offer a host of benefits including discounts in the Visitor Information Centre (VIC) shop, which sells locally so By Besi • 1 min read
Features & Longread On Safari with Jaq Bayles Camping; where you can be at one with nature. The stars your blanket, the soft night sounds your comforter. Until that inevitable moment, usually at around 3am, when you wake up needing the loo. Hate that moment – scrabbling for shoes, hunting for the tent zip, crawling outside into the cold air to By Contributor • 6 min read
Features & Longread Mykonos – An Aegean Pearl In ancient Greek mythology there was a race of people living on an island somewhere in the Aegean Sea who ate nothing but lotus flowers and lived a wonderful, sybaritic and relaxed life. This is a myth, or is it? I had never been to any of the (nearly) 3,000 islands of which 170 are […] By Roger Wheeler • 5 min read
Features & Longread Party On – Dutch Style! The Dutch love their Royal Family possibly more than we love our own. Every year since 1948 they have celebrated their Queen’s official birthday on April 30 (or April 29 if it falls on a Sunday) with parties all over the country. It was always known as Koninginnedag (Queen’s Day) and Amsterdam alway By Roger Wheeler • 4 min read
Features & Longread Solid as a rock! Gibraltar is a fascinating place, but not many people have been there. Amazingly, some people think that it’s an island off the coast of Spain rather than a peninsular at the far southern part. Several UK airlines fly there making it a convenient airport to head into the fleshpots of the Costa del S By Roger Wheeler • 4 min read
