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New Orleans has much to look forward to


THERE are plenty of new reasons to recommend New Orleans in the coming months. Tagged


‘the


Greatest Free Show on Earth’, Mardi Gras season is filled with elaborate floats, costumes and throws. The parades begin on January 31, 2015 and climax with the King of Carnival, Rex, on February 17,


Fat Tuesday, with


parades, Louisiana cuisine, jazz music, and local artists. Meanwhile, the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Market, a performing arts venue and community jazz centre expects spring.


It will


to open in the feature


themed


concerts, an interactive living jazz archive and a Jazz Walk of Fame and a Hall of Heroes. IndyCar, the premier American- based open-wheel racing series, will race in the New Orleans area for the first time on April 12, 2015. Virgin Holidays has a four-night


stay at the St James Hotel, New Orleans, departing February 25, priced from £869pp. neworleansonline.com


FLORIDA panhandle destination Panama City Beach, Florida, has pledged to capitalise on the ‘tie up’ between Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic by forging closer links and developing new programems with UK tour operators. Delta is one of the major carriers serving the Northwest Florida Beaches International


cooperation with


Airport (ECP) and its Virgin


Beach, gives UK


travellers more opportunities to access Panama City


served by the new Virgin operated flight and the three-times-daily


Delta


flights on the Heathrow-Atlanta route. There are smooth onward Delta connections between Atlanta and Panama City Beach.


from Manchester IN BRIEF Maverick says aloha to Hawaii: Las


Vegas-based Maverick Helicopters is to offer tours over Hawaii. The new services will begin on April 15, 2015 with three helicopters based on Maui offering scenic flights and helicopter ‘experiences’ overlooking The Valley Isle’s mountains, waterfalls, rainforests and volcanoes. FlyMaverick.com


New from Virgin: Virgin Holidays’ 2015/16 USA brochure, for departures from January 1 2015 to April 30 2016, for the first time features cycling holidays in Washington State and Death Valley; Birmingham, Alabama; Moab, Utah; and El Paso, Texas. Virgin will ‘price match’ if customers find an identical holiday at a lower price. vhols4agents.co.uk


Airways is


Miami twice from BA: British to add more seats to its


Heathrow-Miami service next October when it introduces an Airbus A380 on the route. The two daily flights will be part of British Airways’ plans to move out of Terminal One, to Terminal Five or Terminal Three, the main Oneworld Alliance LHR base. batraveltrade.com


Delta also operates a daily flight and


Dublin to now


Atlanta, with free connections to Panama City Beach. A mostly ‘undiscovered’ part of the


state, Panama City Beach is keen to gain a bigger share of the UK market to Florida – over 1.5 million British visitors a year – by working with more UK operators to develop single-stay and multi-centre fly-drive packages. For example, the destination has been


working with Funway Holidays on its Florida Beaches campaigns since 2013 and will feature in the 2015 Florida Beaches brochure. Also, for the first time, Panama City Beach is working with USAirtours on various promotional campaigns and will be featured as one of its destinations of the month in 2015. visitpanamacitybeach.com


Tucson’s natural side TUCSON,


Arizona, is promoting


itself as a ‘haven for the free at heart’, based around its year-round sunshine and natural landscape which attracts outdoor enthusiasts. Visitors can choose their adventure in Tucson’s lush, saguaro-studded desert or surrounding mountains, or stargazing in what many call the ‘Astronomy Capital of the World’. Tucson’s diverse accommodations are attractions in their own right. Guests can saddle up for an Old West adventure at Miraval Resort and Spa or Canyon Ranch, two of the world’s top destination spas. Alternatively they can rejuvenate


at a resort where golf, tennis, and walking or riding trails start just steps from their room. Planned new festivals and events will see authentic western and modern cultures mix. For example, experience legendary jazz music and festival fun at the inaugural 13-day


Tucson Jazz Festival,


beginning January 16, 2015. Visitors can jump on the new Sun


Link Streetcar to explore the shows, or explore the city’s creative culinary


scene, nightlife and


burgeoning entertainment options. And point golfers in the direction of the Tucson Classic, Tucson’s new PGA Tour Champions Tour event, which will debut between March 16-22, 2015. The Omni Tucson National Resort, in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains, will host the charity event which will be broadcast around the world on the Golf Channel. visitTucson.org


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