TRAVEL and how we experience that longed-for getaway, be it in the sun, snow, wilderness or a city break, changes faster than those enticing last-minute holiday package offers posted in your local travel agency shopfront.

A World Travel Market survey of more than 1,000 holiday-makers shows almost a third take their own teabags on holiday.

TOURISM enterprises from Ireland and Northern Ireland were strongly represented at the World Travel Market (WTM) in London this week, heralding the start of the promotional thrust for the 2006 season by Tourism Ireland, the organisation responsible for marketing the island of Ireland overseas.