Please vote for the Europe a la Carte Blog in the TravelMole Web Awards UK 2009. This year the shortlist for awards will be determined by online voting between 15 May – 10 June 2009. A panel of judges will then select the winners. The awards are for travel sites which are directed at the [...]
If you’ve spent any time in Wales and you’ve a story to tell, then the Visit Wales Tourism website would like to hear from you. The website is looking for articles to feature on their blog until the Wales in Words competition closes in mid August and the winner will be selected in September to [...]
If you’d like to win a free night at a Hyatt hotel all you need to do is to leave a comment on the blog telling me why you deserve to be one of five winners of a one night free stay at any Hyatt hotel in the world (subject to availability). Mainz Hyatt Courtyard [...]
If you’d like to try out a harbourside boutique hotel, soak up some opera and culture, explore an open air museum of historic buildings, and see a little mermaid, all at someone else’s expense then read on. Visit Denmark, Denmark’s official tourism website, is looking for guests to be part of the Guinea Pig Guest [...]
In conjunction with Mapsinternational.co.uk Europe a la Carte is offering you the chance to win a giant political global wall map worth £30:99. To win the map, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post saying why you’d like to win the giant wall map. I’ll then select the most entertaining [...]
© jonrawlinson Lonely Planet TV is offering $500 for your best travel video. You upload your travel video and if anything catches the Lonely Planet teams eye they’ll contact the maker to offer the maker a $500 deal to license their travel video for use by Lonely Planet and their partners. It’s hard to gauge [...]
There are only a few days left to enter your favourite photo of Edinburgh in the “Love Your City” contest being run by the Cockburn Association, Edinburgh’s Civic Society, as the closing date for entries is 1 October 2008. You can enter any photo which portrays Edinburgh or the view from Edinburgh. Email your entry [...]
Regent Street online are running a competition to find photos which epitomise Britishness by portraying what’s great about Britain. You can upload your entry on the site until 31 December 2008. Photos will be judged by their originality, composition and creativity. The top ten photos will be professionally mounted and displayed in Regent Street and [...]
by shriff14 Representatives of the Tirolean Tourism Board in Austria are whipping up the rumour that London tap water has passed through an average of eight people before you drink it to launch the promotion of pure Tirolean bottled water in London. A spokesperson from the Tirol is quoted as “Iwondering what London’s fish swim [...]
Update 30 August 2010 – This competition took place in 2008. by ccgd Visit Scotland have a great site called “Cafe Days” enabling you to find your perfect cafe. The featured cafes are independent cafes, often struggling to survive with the every expanding empires of the likes of Costa Coffee (which I refer to as [...]
