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TRENDLAND | Design & Culture Online Magazine - Part 3. SBTRKT : Higher Feat Raury. Photo by trendland. Photo by trendland. Photo by trendland. Photo by trendland. Photo by trendland. Photo by trendland. Photo by trendland. Trendland on Instagram. Trendland on Instagram. Trendland on Instagram. Ebola: airlines cancel more flights to affected countries | Society. Airlines have cancelled more than a third of international flights to three west African countries over fears that an outbreak of the Ebola virus could spread, as more African countries introduce measures to block visitors from affected areas. Of 590 monthly flights scheduled to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, 216 have been cancelled, according to OAG, an airline data provider. Although 14 cases of Ebola have been reported in Nigeria, flights to and from the country have not been affected.

African countries are rolling out measures to stop Ebola from spreading: South Africa on Thursday banned travellers from Ebola-stricken countries from entering the country, and on Friday Senegal announced it was closing its border with Guinea as a preventative measure, while Chad said it had closed its border with Nigeria. Over the past two weeks new treatment centres in Liberia have been overwhelmed as soon as they opened by patients who had not previously been identified.

World Tourism Organization UNWTO | Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals. Tourism Concern - Curbing tourist developments in Goa. Outcomes This was Tourism Concern’s first campaign and we successfully introduced British tour operators to the issues, and raised public awareness through an effective media campaign.

The issue Goa was one of the first destinations where Tourism Concern forged a strong working relationship with local groups. There is a strong NGO network there which has campaigned on tourism since mass tourism first began in this Southern Indian state in the 1980s. The issues presented by tourism for local people include water, unregulated development, land-grabs, and cultural offence caused by inappropriate tourist behaviour, such as nude and topless sunbathing.

Goa has moved from being a hippy destination in the 1960s to a combination of a backpacker's hang-out and a mass tourist destination. Our campaign Tourism Concern lobbied British tour operators using hotels in Goa which contravened environmental regulations. More about cultural conflicts and environmental damage. 7 Places You Should Visit in 2014 | Budget Travel. Intelligent Travel - Cultural, Authentic, Sustainable. Best Trips 2014 -- National Geographic Traveler. The Imperishable City New Orleans, like Rome or hope, is eternal. Visit Louisiana’s filigreed, fleur-de-lis city twice or 20 times, and the scent will be as unchanging as the air is unmoving: a humid mix of confederate jasmine and fried shrimp, diesel fuel and desire. The French Quarter? Always rolling. At Galatoire’s, Uptown lawyers still get “liquor-store-robbing drunk” on five-hour Friday lunches of oysters Rockefeller and Pouilly-Fuissé, while farther down Bourbon Street, exhibitionists hooched-up on Hurricanes play to the balconies.

The Garden District remains quieter than sleep—the whitewashed tombs of its cemetery still shelter the dead and fascinate the living. The music remains unrivaled. Immutable. “Goodness, sugar,” says Marda Burton, doyenne of the French Quarter. Travel Tips When to Go: A subtropical climate makes New Orleans a year-round destination. How to Get Around: Take a private shuttle or taxi from New Orleans International Airport to your hotel.

Holiday hotspots: where to go in 2014 | Travel. 1. Cape Town, South Africa Following in the footsteps of Helsinki and Seoul, Cape Town has been elected World Design Capital 2014, giving it the opportunity to showcase about 450 innovation projects. That it was selected more as a "one to watch" rather than a fully polished design leader makes it even more exciting to keep an eye on. To see a social/design experiment in action, go to Woodstock, a run-down suburb given a new lease of life through the Neighbourgoods Market), which sells artisan goods in a former biscuit factory: The Old Biscuit Mill. This is also home to Luke Dale-Roberts' restaurants the Test Kitchen and the Pot Luck Club & Gallery.

The city has got what is being billed as the world's coolest cafe – Truth, drawing on a Victorian steam-punk theme,. For a township "jazz safari", or a tour specifically linked to World Design Capital 2014, see coffeebeansroutes.com. 2. 3. 4. The man himself would no doubt have approved. 5. Change is stirring in Kolkata. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Twenty destinations for 2014: in pictures. From the wild frontiers of Papua New Guinea, to unspoilt Italian islands, our experts suggest where to go this year. Read Charles Starmer-Smith's introduction to how the destinations were chosen here. Cities Glasgow, Scotland Glasgow, always a city that knows how to party, is preparing to welcome athletes from all over the world for a monumental knees-up over the 11 days of the Commonwealth Games from July 23. Read the full article here Picture: AP. Finland: a family break on the Åland islands | Travel. At midnight there is a long orange streak of sunset across the horizon and the colour of the sky is just past dusk.

As we wait for the last ferry back to Helsinki, there are tantalising strains of nightclub music and the raucous, drunken, happy noise of young people, who have just graduated from college, walking along the harbour, looking for a bar. Later, when the ship leaves, the green silhouettes of the islands we’ve been staying on are visible in the fading light long after midnight. This disorientating feeling of the Nordic white nights makes a holiday on the Åland islands unsettling and unusual. It is light when you go to sleep and dawn if you wake at four in the morning; no one feels inclined to sleep too much.

The autonomous Åland archipelago – a patch of around 7,000 islands, halfway between Finland and Sweden – is a Nordic holiday playground where people come to cycle, kayak, sail, fish, swim in the cold Baltic Sea and warm up in saunas afterwards. Budget camping, Denmark. City guides: insider tips to the best cities in the world | Travel. Tourists behaving badly: five incidents of terrible traveller behaviour | Travel. Europe's best outdoor art this summer | Travel. Mamo, Marseille Le Corbusier’s most famous work, Marseille’s Unité d’Habitation apartment block (aka the Cité Radieuse), counts writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades among its serried inhabitants. The new Mamo Gallery on the brutalist block’s roof features a bust of Corb and, until 30 September, primary-coloured works by Daniel Buren which look a bit like they were dreamed up by Piet Mondrian.• mamo.fr, until 30 September Take My Hand, Barcelona A rare chance to see a new offering from architect Peter Cook – who set up the futuristic Archigram group in the 1960s – and his wife Yael Reisner.

Take My Hand is a huge, inflatable blue hand that hovers over Plaça de la Mercè in Barcelona. It’s intended to make passersby think about human rights. Serpentine, London The Serpentine Gallery’s annual summer pavilion has been built by architects ranging from Jean Nouvel to Zaha Hadid. The Apothecary’s Tower, Isle of Skye Salt festival, Norway Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium.