Archive for the ‘Wales’ Category
Sneak Peek at Wales’ Big Events for 2010
New York, NY – February 5, 2010 – Wales doesn’t like to brag, but Wales is definitely proud to be the Host Nation of golf’s premier team event – Ryder Cup Wales 2010; the home of the Hay Festival of Literature & Art, called the “Woodstock of the Mind” by Bill Clinton; the venue for [...]
February 5, 2010
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Sneak Peek at Wales’ Big Events for 2010
New York, NY – February 2, 2010 – Wales doesn’t like to brag, but Wales is definitely proud to be the Host Nation of golf’s premier team event – Ryder Cup Wales 2010; the home of the Hay Festival of Literature & Art, called the “Woodstock of the Mind” by Bill Clinton; the venue for [...]
February 2, 2010
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Visitors Enjoy Warm Welsh Hospitality
The latest tourism survey by Visit Wales suggests most visitors went away with a positive impression of the country.В The welcome tourists are given and the friendliness of the people are among the best features of visiting Wales, said the survey. Almost 90% of visitors said they would recommend Wales as a destination to visit for [...]
January 7, 2010
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Welsh Winter Deals Exclusively for Travelers
New York, New York – November, 2009 – Wales is an awesome year-round destination for travelers and for sheep, but only travelers get discounts in the winter. Many of Wales’s most treasured, most historic, most charming and most funky hotels are offering serious winter savings.
November 12, 2009
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Take a Modern Pilgrimage to Spiritual Wales: A popular destination for the growing trend of religious tourism
New York, New York – October, 2009 – International Passenger Survey statistics indicate that 4% of visitors to Britain polled indicate the primary reason for their trip is visiting religious sites or religious places of interest.
October 29, 2009
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Welsh Ghosts Welcome Guests in Castles, Manor Houses & Hotels
New York, New York – August, 2009 – Creepy is not a typical way for a destination to promote itself, but when you have as many prominent ghosts and haunted castles as Wales does, talk of the eerie is natural, or rather, supernatural?
August 13, 2009
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Golfers! Wales is First in Europe to Offer Internet Caddy Program
New York, New York – July 28, 2009 – Great caddies make for great golf. And now finding and booking a top-rate professional caddy for any of Wales’s 200 courses can be done in under a minute with www.caddylocator.com
July 28, 2009
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Wales’ Great Outdoors Just Got Greater – Win a Free Wales Adventure Vacation
New York, New York, July, 2009 – Adventure-seeking travelers thirsting to trek across a dramatic, ancient landscape or mountain bike on some of the world’s finest single track terrain are in luck. Visit Wales in conjunction with Virgin Atlantic Airways, Sierra Designs and BritRail is offering a four-night prize for two independent explorers who want [...]
July 9, 2009
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Wales Gives Travelers Something to Tweet About – Stay in the 20th Century Homes of Dylan Thomas or a 19th Century Slate-Cutting Mill or an 18th Century Country House
New York, June 8, 2009 — There is nothing cookie-cutter about Wales, nor about its accommodation. And now Wales is giving travelers something to tweet about with a bevy of newly available accommodation including Number Five, the childhood home of Dylan Thomas; and Seaview, Dylan and Caitlin Thomas’ seaside home in Laugharne.
June 8, 2009
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Snorkelling through a bog in Wales
The annual World Bog Snorkelling Championship will be held this year on 31 August in Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales, officially the smallest town in Britain.В This strange competition was first held in 1986 to raise funds for charity, and now attracts competitors from around the world. They come to swim two lengths of a muddy trench [...]
April 21, 2009
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