Camping Ireland reports that interest in caravanning and camping has increased by 30%.

Left it late to book a summer getaway? Don’t panic. There are plenty of deals left, particularly if you book fast.

More than 10,000 people will travel from Cork Airport to ski resorts over the coming weeks — the highest for the region since the recession began.

IMAGINE the temptation of visiting a chocolate factory yet not allowed to taste the product?

Defending champion Brendan Cummins, who is chasing his seventh All-Ireland Poc Fada title, will have to beat some of hurling's best talents in the final on Annaverna Mountain next month.

A Dublin couple who spent thousands on a dream wedding in a romantic village in northern Italy discovered two years later that they were not married at all, a court has heard.

FOUR-STAR ZUNI HOTEL OFFERING SPRING DEALS

Fed up with forced family frolics and catty couples on Christmas Day? Pack your bags, says Pól Ó Conghaile Christmas is the ideal time for solo travellers to get away

CANARIES CALLING FOR WINTER BREAKS

TOPLIGHT-AER LINGUS AGREE TO SKIING DEAL

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ANYONE who ever travelled with Trailfinders will soon be receiving the Spring/Summer 2011 edition of the in-house magazine.

DIRECT flights from Dublin and Cork to Turkey have helped ease the path for Wings Abroad to build up their profile in the Irish market.

SKI instructors from Austria will be present at the Ski Club of Ireland in Kilternan next weekend (Saturday and Sunday) to introduce the ever popular sport which thousands of Irish people enjoy each year.

RESORT transfers often tend to be the most annoying part of package holidays, but Topflight’s use of Verona as airport destination for Lake Garda-based holidays has proved hugely popular with Irish clients.

DUBLIN-based specialist tour operator Croatia Tours is one of the few Irish travel companies that can claim to be experiencing an increase in demand for the 2010 summer holiday season.

FANCY a child-free getaway? Trabolgan Holiday Village, east Cork is taking the unusual step of banning their best clients — the kids — from the centre for just one weekend on Friday, November 6, and Saturday, November 7, next.

IRISH Festivals used to revolve almost solely around music and drink, not necessarily in that order.

VisitScotland has launched its first Kitchen Garden Trail, encouraging Irish visitors to stay in establishments that serve produce direct from their own gardens.

TOPFLIGHT will cater for opera buffs for the duration of the famous Verona festival which runs from June 19 to August 30 in the restored third century Roman amphitheatre.

TOPFLIGHT has launched a new preliminary winter ski brochure. The company is offering low booking deposits from €50 per person, free child places, insurance, boots and lift passes.

CANVAS Holidays say credit crunched families can still afford holiday breaks in France this year.

THESE may be troubled times, but the travel industry is ploughing ahead with plans to keep the “ship” afloat over the next six months or so.

THE totally Irish-owned travel company Topflight are ! ski specialists but they have moved carefully into the summer overseas holiday market during the last 20 years as well.

TOPFLIGHT, which has been voted Ireland’s Best Ski tour operator for the 14th successive year, has a new winter ski brochure.

THOMAS Cook Sport, one of the four official, licensed operators for the British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa next year, has put together a Freewheeler package for Irish fans; those who like independence and want to avoid transfers through London.

BUDGET Travel joins the list of companies offering winter breaks before summer is even over.

NORWAY continues to be a big success story with Topflight clients — with big increases in business each year since working in partnership with SAS Airlines and using direct flights to Oslo from Dublin.

KEYCAMP have launched a new selection of apartment holidays, with prices starting at €420 per family for a seven-night stay.

DISCOVER Travel, a branch of East Cork Travel based in Midleton, has just released the company’s most comprehensive Asian brochure since entering that market just less than a decade ago.

DISCOVER Travel, a branch of East Cork Travel based in Midleton, has just released the company’s most comprehensive Asian brochure since entering that market just less than a decade ago.

TOPFLIGHT has launched its Winter Sun brochure that includes luxury cruises and winter sun and wellness holidays.

TOPFLIGHT’S choice of holidays continues to expand.

LEE TRAVEL is promoting a week-long tour in Poland, with a Cork departure on July 15, titled “Follow in the Footsteps of Pope John Paul II”.

IT’S all go for Topflight, one of the largest wholly-owned Irish tour operators.

TOPFLIGHT, recently voted Ireland’s leading ski tour operator, has launched a skiing/snowboarding preview brochure and is offering special deals to those who book early.

A PLANE landed safely at Dublin Airport yesterday having been diverted to a French airport after a bomb scare.

IRISH holidaymakers are getting ready to go on the piste again.

THE Irish skiing business continues to grow and Topflight has moved to take advantage of a huge surge in interest.