Do you know your Swedes from your Swiss?

As a kid, I had posters of two heroes on my wall. Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant faced off against the great All Black winger, John Kirwan.

Travel Editor Winston Aldworth looks at why NZ topping the Telegraph's readers' poll of travel destinations is so important to this country.

Beauty spot's locals must have seen it all when it comes to unusual tourist behaviour.

Where once a traveller would reach for their guidebook and camera, now the smartphone reigns supreme.

At what point should we butt into someone else's holiday and tell them to stay out of the surf?

Snowdon Forest doesn't have the same level of conservation protection as a national park.

Madrid has suffered a slump in visitor numbers because someone forgot to put out the welcome mat.

The travel trade in general has done pretty well in recent tough times and, within the industry, cruising shows remarkable growth.

Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary wants to take his budget carrier to the long-haul market.

Researchers at Oxford University are developing a pill that will alleviate the effects of jetlag.

It's a rare day that you find yourself in Stockholm and wish you were in Pukekohe.

Last week, I wrote about Scoot airline's plans for kid-free seating.

According to my (child-free) colleague, budget airline Scoot, a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines, are on to a good thing.

Stephanie Heizmann Auerbach might just have set a new high for inflight bad behaviour.

We're a funny old country. When the dairy farming industry damn near ruins the nation's international image and our ability to sell anything overseas, who do we punish? The tourism sector, of course!

Winston Aldworth writes: More than half of us men are telling fibs at airport check-in counters. "Did you pack your bag yourself?" Of course (cough, cough) ...

Last week's cover story, "The Secret Stewardess", laid bare some of the happenings at 30,000 ft of which passengers might have been unaware.

There's been a big change in the air. The screens displaying quiz questions on Air New Zealand domestic flights are now playing full-blown advertisements.

It seems we Kiwis are not as sunsmart as we'd like to think, and when it comes to loafing about on the beach we're more tight-fisted than our Aussie cousins.

They say travel broadens the mind, but sometimes it can sharpen your prejudices, writes Linda Herrick.

Who really believes that listening to a song on your MP3 player at takeoff could cause a crash?

I'm a little fussy about the music I listen to.

It's bad news for Wogistani knife-wielding loons and non-Wogistani knife-wielding loons alike.

Ewan McDonald writes from Istanbul, where tourists sought pleasure while the locals openly defied their leaders.

I knew it. A knockabout unscientific survey from Britain's Stansted Airport has reiterated what many male travellers who fly with their female partners have long suspected: We're losing luggage space for girlie things.