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.

Last week's discussion on reclining seats aboard passenger planes hit a nerve, writes Travel Editor Winston Aldworth.

An unscientific poll of 1000 fliers found that nine out of 10 respondents want reclining seats on planes banned, writes Winston Aldworth. The problem isn't that your seat reclines, it's that the seat of the ignorant b*****d in front of you reclines.

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.

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.

Tourism New Zealand's 100% marketing campaign got another bagging in the press over the weekend.

Last week's editorial on inflight advertisements on the screens that show Air New Zealand's clever quiz for domestic flights brought some interesting responses.

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.

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.

Adventure tourism inherently carries risk, writes Martin Sneddon. But the customer has a right to expect that avoidable risks are eliminated.

It's none of our business if any old Minister of Tourism - or any old Prime Minister, for that matter - chooses to take his family holidays in Hawaii each year.

It's taken about 20,000 years to build one of the natural wonders of the world, but Kiwi travellers can put themselves right in the middle of the thing within just a few hours.