Dragoman Overland Guide wins top award!

A leader for Dragoman Overland since 2013, Julie Gabbott has received the top award at Wanderlust magazine's 13th World Guide Awards. 

Julie who guides for Dragoman in their iconic orange overland trucks which go all over the Americas, Africa and Asia; taking the road less travelled and getting away from the tourist trail share their mantra of "it's the journey, not just the destination".

Julie is planning on splitting her winning bursary of £5,000 between Zara Charity in Tanzania (which works towards powering schools for Maasai children) and a charity supporting female victims of genital mutilation in Sierra Leone.

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Get captivated by the magic

THE magnetic fields of sun twist and turn when it rotates on its axis and when these fields become intertwined they burst and generate sunspots that occur in pairs. When the temperature on the surface of sun fluctuates the sun starts boiling and generates bubbles. The particles escaping from the sunspot regions when clash with the plasma called solar wind, it takes around 40 hours to reach Earth and when it occurs that causes the fascinating displays called the aurora borealis.

Wild About Lapland, offer tailor made Aurora Borealis #Lapland tours depending upon the abilities of their clients, weather conditions and the Northern Light forecasts. Their expert guides teach their clients about #AuroraBorealis and also show how the natives make a fire and cook over it. To make the experience of watching the mesmerizing lights they drive away from the city to find the perfect spot that provides the highest chances of seeing the lights on the destined night.

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Travel Japan with a local

TRIPFRIENDS, an SNS application dedicated to introducing tour guides to tourists, which the company SeaCalls has developed based on the concept that "Traveling alone is no longer lonely."

Tripfriends, fully compatible with Android and iOS, attracts many keen travelers, helping them find nice food at places visited, experience Japan's culture and look for partners to enjoy various activities.

Tripfriends is recommended to people who would say:

I like traveling alone but would sometimes like somebody's company
I want to interact with locals
I want more people to know about my town
I want a social networking site where users love traveling
I want to make an album of my travel memories and share it with my friends
I love hanging out with people more than anything

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Travel and tour the world

FOLLOWING the current trend of peer-to-peer user experience platforms, Tourme allows travelers to connect with local experts for a memorable and personalized experience no matter where they are in the world.

Tourme began as a dream: a father-daughter quest for pineapple picking farms in Maui that became a blockbuster-script-worthy adventure. With the help of a friendly local, the duo not only found their pineapples, but shared an experience that would live in their hearts forever. It was this memory that sparked the idea for the peer-to-peer touring platform, Tourme.

From the sandy beaches of Lahaina to the drawing room floor, the vision for Tourme eventually led to a fully realized #travel #app and website with 10,000 potential tour guides in 150 countries around the world.

Tourme offers 4 types of tours to help travelers find the right guide for their next adventure. Take a bar crawl through Barcelona, learn to Salsa in Santo Domingo, or pick pineapples in Hawaii; with Tourme, it's up to you. Available to download now in the App Store and Google Play.

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Writing's on the wall

PHILADELPHIA is home to three of the greatest museums of art in America – the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Barnes Foundation and Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts.

Mural Arts Philadelphia has just relaunched its programme of tours in time for the summer, so visitors can marvel at some of the city’s 4,000 murals between more traditional museum visits. 

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Book in for the history of modern travel

PACKAGE #holidays … Adventure tours … Thomas Cook … Thomson … Benidorm. Club 18-30 … Coach tours … City breaks. You name it – we've done it. We've been there and lived to tell the tale. Dave Richardson – a freelance journalist who has been writing about the travel business for over 40 years – reveals all in his book Let's Go – A History of Package Holidays and Escorted Tours (£14.99). 

It tells the story of the travel business from the 1850s to the present day. Featuring anecdotes, word-of-mouth accounts from the people who made it happen and archive images, the book brings the story up-to-date by looking at how we take our holidays today and the threats that could force tour operators out of business.

Noel Josephides, chairman of the Association of British Travel Agents, writes in the foreword:

‘What brings the book alive is the fact that Dave has lived through many of the years he describes and can write from personal experience of the many colourful characters that have shaped the travel sector. This book enables us to see travel through the eyes of those who were actively involved in creation of the dream.’

The book can be ordered online at www.historyofpackagetours.co.uk.

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