The locations were determined by an analysis from the website that is visited by about 25 million users a month. New Zealand topped the international survey.The Greek island of Rhodes was voted on Thursday as the top European location in a survey of the world's 100 best travel destinations.The Austrian capital Salzburg was the next most favourite European destination while the spa resort town of Bath was the highest-ranking British destination.

In 1975 the Cambodian born US journalist Dith Pran became arrested by the Khmer Rouge. Fortunately he manage to escape after a while in an incredible way. His story shocked the world, and he became later the subject of the famous film, The Killing Fields. Dith Pran died recently after combating cancer through almost three months. His memory will live forever!

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The tour operator Coex Amazon is specialised in offering adventurous expeditions with an eco-cultural profile. It offers 5 different expeditions for experience Peru’s exotic and wild nature. We break through the jungle by river boats, on the horseback and trekking, tells the owner and manager Oyvind Wesseltoft.

Are you ready for exploring off beaten tracks in Peru? Then the pioneering tour operator Coex Amazon in Peru can offer you something special on its expedition tours. Coex Amazon attended the Norway International Meeting and Travel Fair, Reiseliv, for the second time. According the establisher and owner Oyvind Wesseltoft it’s so much undiscovered in the Peru, especially in the dense Amazon jungle.

Svalbard was presented on the 21st Norway International Meeting and Travel Fair - Reiseliv 08, from 10 - 13 January 2008. On Svalbard genuine adventurers can experience arctic wildlife, glaciers, large icebergs and a surrounding landscape of vast mountains and tundra.

On Norway International Meeting and Travel fair 2008, representatives from Iceland focused on the Vatnajokull glacier. When USA prepared to send men to the moon in the 1960s, the organisation NASA used Vatnajokull as a training ground. Some scenes from the recent James Bond movies have been shot there. A more dramatic landscape can hardly be found in the world!

The organiser Reiseliv 2008 will have a special focus on facilitating increased sales for exhibitors. Reiseliv offer them a bustling marketplace, access to professional buyers of business travel, leisure travel, course and conference services. Thousands of travel enthusiasts will attend this travel fair at Lillestrøm near Oslo from 11 - 13 January. Get ready for the big sales rush!

The world famous website for expedition news, ExplorersWeb, has covered nearly thousand expeditions in 2007. The staff write on its website: it's difficult to choose the best, as they all contributed in their own way, sharing their story - their very soul in fact - with us and the world.

The travel fair Reiseliv 2008, Lillestrøm, Oslo, is a venue for Inspiration – Experiences – Exhibition offers – Planning! News are: Tanzania, Gambia, Libya, Kenya with Wild Kenya’s Adventure Safari, Mali in Vest-Africa, Mongolia and Philippine in Asia, Serbia with Beograd, Moldova, Lithuanian and Hong Kong will attend the fair this year. Also the Caribbean island Aruba. In addition tour operators offer new countries to go to.

In this article you find extract from stories and selected photos from exciting journeys during 2007. Our freelance journalists around the world have the ability to tell stories that make it interesting for others to read. Their journeys in Laos, Guatemala, Central America, Malta and Finland are about unique adventures, explorations and meeting of nice people with different lifestyle and culture than themselves. Here are our highlights from 2007......

Especially Merry Christmas to people with genuine passion for travelling. It's time to spread joy and bring smiles to faces! Whether people believe in Santa Claus or not, they continue their traditional Christmas celebration. People wait for the arrival of Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. He is the world`s best traveller and the most popular person!

Staged annually in London under one roof, World Travel Market - WTM - is a must attend, business to business exhibition in November 2007. Here travel organisations and tour operators can find interesting business partners. WTM provides a unique opportunity for the whole global travel trade industry to meet, network, negotiate, conduct business and stay abreast with the latest developments in the travel industry.

This year World Travel Market - WTM’s Technology & Online Travel Sector will be exhibiting some of the latest developments in the digital world with the must-have tools needed to ensure business success. Online travel has exceeded all predictions this year with growth of 20% and forecasts of a market worth over £33 billion in Europe by 2011, according to Euromonitor International.

Tony and Maureen Wheeler sold Lonely Planet to the BBC in the beginnnig of October 2007, but are as passionate as ever about travel. The British Newspaper Gurdian made an interview with the couple. Here are 25 amazing places they think we should all see.