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Drayton Manor offers free summer entry for toddlers Drayton Manor Theme Park is offering free entry for children under four this summer. Pre- booked tickets for visits between July 22 and August 31 will be free for under fours, while tickets for children from four to 11 cost £20 and adults tickets are £25.
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Wizz Air unveils autumn schedule for Poland Wizz Air will add routes to Poland from Glasgow and Luton this autumn. The no-frills carrier will fly Glasgow-Katowice and Glasgow- Poznan twice a week, and three times a week from Luton to Szczecin, starting October 26-28.
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Utah opens glamping resort near national parks Utah’s first glamping resort, Moab Under Canvas, has opened. Close to the entrance to Arches and Canyonlands national parks, the luxury tents and tepees start at £55 per night. Activities such as rafting and horse riding are available.
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Dubai’s Mall of the World to house 80 hotels and a theatre district
Rebekah Commane
A theme park, theatres and 80 hotels are to be included in the world’s largest self-contained development, planned for Dubai. The Mall of the World complex
will cover an area larger than 600 football pitches. Its retail area will be four times the size of Gateshead’s Metrocentre – the largest shopping centre in the EU. The four miles of temperature-
controlled promenades will be based on London’s Oxford Street. The mall will also feature a Broadway-style theatre district. The project is to be the retail and
hospitality showpiece development for the emirate’s 2020 Vision and Expo 2020 exhibition, designed with the goal of doubling Dubai’s annual visitor numbers to 20 million in six years.
Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said: “The growth in family and retail tourism underpins the need to enhance Dubai’s tourism infrastructure as soon as possible. “Our ambitions are higher than
having seasonal tourism.” As well as the Mall of the World, a 438-hectare district featuring three pavilions is being built near the airport to host Expo 2020.
Bahamas to strengthen links with UK trade
The Bahamas Tourist Office has pledged to reinvigorate its relationship with the UK trade following a restructure and the appointment of two senior officials. Director general Joy Jibrilu is new to tourism, having been appointed in May from the Bahamas Investment Authority. She said: “We want to rebuild
relationships that previously existed, but that we may have lost over the past few years. Romance is the obvious focus: we want to
get the Bahamas known once again as the number-one wedding and honeymoon destination.” The new director for Europe,
Anthony Stuart, who will be based in London, has revealed plans to expand the UK team and engage face-to-face with the trade through roadshows, fam trips and agency visits.
The destination is building on its ‘junkanoo’ tradition, by holding its first carnival, from May 3-8, in a bid to attract off-peak tourism.
Joy Jibrilu is the new director general
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Eurostar sells children’s return tickets for £1 Children can travel on the Eurostar for just £1 in August. The offer applies to children travelling each way to Paris, Brussels or Lille throughout August. Tickets are on sale from July 16 to August 31, and the same fare is available in both Standard and Standard Premier seating.
eurostar.com
Belleair offers £100 off family summer holidays Specialist operator Belleair Holidays has discounts of up to £100 per family of four this summer. The offer applies to new bookings to Malta, Gozo and Comino for seven nights or more in Belleair’s featured properties between July 23 and September 4.
belleair.co.uk
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