Newspaper Headlines of the Inauguration of Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. ...New Zealand’s repatriation program brings human remains back and lays them to rest.

Tripadvisor and Phocuswright recently released a joint report reviewing consumer travel behavioral trends throughout 2020: A Year in Travel: Charting the Travel Industry’s Path to Recovery (free and publicly available)... The 12 Days of Christmas start on Christmas Day and last until the evening of the 5th January. The 12 Days have been celebrated in Europe since before the middle ages and were a time of celebration.

In their letters to Santa Claus, kids across the US are still asking for toys, clothes, Legos and video games. But in a year filled with illness and uncertainty, a review of letters addressed to the North Pole and collected through the Post Office’s Operation Santa program reveals the pandemic is weighing heavily on children.

It’s travel award season on the island of Ireland! In recent weeks, the island has been awarded a number of exciting accolades. Both Dublin and Galway have topped the Condé Nast friendliest cities in Europe list, while EPIC The Irish Immigration Museum has been awarded Europe’s Leading Tourist Attraction by the World Travel Awards for the second year running.

T-Boy Society of Film & Music's latest poll is dedicated to the Friendliest Destinations in the World. As you can see from our member’s selections it could be a village, town, province, state, region or even a neighborhood within a destination. We felt it appropriate to have a positive, feel good segment as opposed to all the ongoing negative news that we are bombarded with on a daily basis.

My wife and I woke up to the smell of rich morning coffee. It was to be part of our breakfast on our first day in Ireland, always a dream in itself. It has been said that all Irish homes become a bed and breakfast during the summer, and this Donegal County cottage with one spare room was no exception. …