To simply use the word 'aviation' is as vague as can be. Furthermore, my ideal scenarios for 2023 in this sector relates to how it affects me, and not the vast majority of frequent flyers. Nevertheless, there are many UK-based travellers who would benefit from my wish list, whilst such a set of hypothetical requests…
How Low Cost Carriers can improve access to Austrian and Slovenian Airports
When national newspapers and travel periodicals post reviews of a particular Austrian or Slovenian resort, or a certain aspect of one such as a new hut to hut trail or multi-peak walk, articles are usually concluded with where the author stayed, and how he or she arrived. Although a London-centric media will invariably seek to…
A personal odyssey within western Shropshire and Mid-Wales
Shrewsbury Castle & Shropshire Regimental Museum Picturesque side streets of Shrewsbury The remaining features of the 11th century Clun Castle. The more manorial 13th century Stokesay Castle Bucolic examples of Shropshire countryside straight from the pages of A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad Welshpool's Powis Castle, gardens, and surroundings The Powys-based, man-made, and almost Bohinj-like…
Bohinj: Slovenian Cryptocurrency millionaire invests in ailing hotel stock
An update from: Bohinj: finally some hope for Hotel Zlatorog? A quartet of Bohinj-based tourist accommodation providers have been bought by Bitstamp co-founder Damijan Merlak, finally drawing to a close shameful scenes that saw several of the area's preeminent hotels fall into disrepair under the gaze of its powerless municipality. Purchased from erstwhile owner Zmago Pacnik…
Bovec: European Union funding sought to fund Kanin cableway modernization
It is surprising that Bovec-Kanin, the only Slovenian ski resort that comes close to being classed as snow sure, is but a few years from its current cableway apparatus effectively being branded obsolete. Without intervention from the north western frontier town's municipality the advent of 2022 will be marked by the effective cessation of Mount…
Slovenia: Spring conditions fail to dampen Maribor’s Golden Fox weekend
This weekend's annual Golden Fox Ski World Cup programme saw the best female exponents of slalom and giant slalom take on the Radvanje piste adjacent to Slovenia's second city Maribor, and part of the Pohorje massif. Despite occupying a modest altitude Maribor's yearly skiing jamboree has endured, although spring conditions meant an astonishing 95% of…
Alpine Europe revels in recent snowfall as Climate Change threatens an uncertain future
Significant snowfall in the Alps over the last few weeks has done much to reinvigorate some already worn pistes, with certain areas receiving their first measurable, and much welcome, dump of the season. As though is often the case precipitation was far from evenly spread across the ranges of central Europe, with some lower-lying resorts…
Bohinj: Rebuilding the Hotel Zlatorog vital for the region to work with what it has, rather than initiate a building gold rush
As 2018 draws to a close another year will pass that has seen little obvious change in the fortunes of Bohinj's once iconic hotel, the Zlatorog. Empty for at least the last five years the Ukanc-based facility still ostensibly remains in the hands of failed hotelier Zmago Pacnik, who seemingly closed the doors once every…
Slovenia: Sustainable tourism the only way to protect Bohinj from becoming the next Venice or Dubrovnik
Striking a precarious balance of promoting sustainable tourism that doesn't alienate those it wishes to attract to the region remains the municipality of Bohinj's greatest challenge. Increasingly swamped with primarily day tourists, Bohinj had previously been an antidote to Lake Bled - a byword itself for the grim realities of mass tourism and the negative…
Slovenia: Iconic Lakeside Tree Symbolizes Humanity’s Devastating Effects on the Natural World
Can a single tree on the eastern shores of Slovenia's Lake Bohinj reflect so much about modern day attitudes many people have towards the environment, especially seemingly expendable items of which it is assumed there is an inexhaustible supply? Notwithstanding an ongoing battle with a devastating attack by a bark beetle, usually only trees…
Bohinj: Balancing Tourism and Ecological Sensibilities Remains a Huge Challenge
Striking a precarious balance of promoting sustainable tourism that doesn't alienate those it wishes to attract to the region remains the municipality of Bohinj's greatest challenge. Increasingly swamped with primarily day tourists, Bohinj had previously been an antidote to Lake Bled - a byword itself for the grim realities of mass tourism and the negative…
Can Bohinj AVOID becoming another Dubrovnik or Venice?
The seemingly endless proliferation of travel guides and competitions that seek to rank areas of the world or indeed individual resorts as the best of their genre, have undoubtedly made the world a smaller place, allowing 'armchair' travellers a greater insight into countries they otherwise of which would know little. As though the world becomes…
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