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.

Acquisition will extend iconic travel guides across multiple media platforms. BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation, has acquired Lonely Planet, the leading travel information group, in a deal that will build the Lonely Planet franchise around the world.

Dagbladet, Oslo, from Norway has become the best travel website. Communities strengthen readers’ loyalty towards “their” newspaper, according to Ifra XMA Cross Media.

Contest Invites Quality Video Uploads for Cash Awards & National Cable TV Exposure for Top Nine Videos. Travellers around the world are getting into the act, taking their travels straight to video as user-generated sites proliferate on the Web.

The New 7 Wonders of the World have been announced during the Official Declaration ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal, on Saturday, 7 July 2007 by The New7Wonders Foundation. Finally the Great Pyramids of Egypt got some amazing company. The new wonders are much younger, but also very interesting. The Great Wall of China won the vote.

Get most out of your tours by staying healthy. Make your journey safer regarding health risk and accidents. On WHO`s - World Health Organization, website you can find useful advice and updated information about medical precautions and safety matters. The organisation provides both general information and specific information about each country regarding health risk. It will help you to plan a safe and healthy trip.

The World Heritage Committee finalized 29 June 2007 this year’s additions to UNESCO’s World Heritage List with the inscription of three new sites: Gamzigrad-Romuliana, Palace of Galerius (Serbia), Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape (Azerbaijan), and Central University City Campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico.

The World Heritage Committee inscribed 22 new sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List during its ongoing session in Christchurch. The new inscriptions include 16 cultural properties, five natural and one mixed, cultural and natural.

The New 7 Wonders of the World will be announced during the Official Declaration ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal on Saturday, July 7, 2007 - 07.07.07. The organisation behind the voting is The New7Wonders Foundation. It was created in 2001 by Swiss adventurer Bernard Weber, with a mission to protect humankind's heritage across the globe. Be a part of making history. Vote for your favorite candidate and receive a personalized New7Wonders Certificate featuring that monument.

New countries who were represented on the travel fair are Slovakia, Panama, Peru, Latvia and Bulgaria. The Norge was open for public from Friday 12th – Sunday 14th January. Representatives I talked were little bit disappointed due to the drop in number of visitors compared with previous the year, but I could observe a large number of visitors rushing in on Sunday afternoon.

New countries who were represented on the travel fair are Slovakia, Panama, Peru, Latvia and Bulgaria. The Indonesian representatives hope that tourists will rediscover the country after the tragic tsunami disaster. The name Indonesia was derived from "indos nesos", meaning islands near India. One of the greatest attactions in Indonesia is the Borobudur temple.

I was delighted to observe that Peru was represented with its own stand this year, the tour operator Coex Amazon. It’s so much undiscovered in the country, especially in the dense jungles. Coex Amazon is established and managed by a mixed marriage between Peru and Norway: Laura and Øyvind Wesseltoft. According to Lonely Planet it's the multicultural layers of great civilisations that make Peru so intriguing.