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Rediscover Your Roots

Ask anyone what's wrong with the consumer society and they'll almost certainly tell you that it has made people "too materialistic". We are obsessed, we're always told, with things, and our material engrossment is killing the environment, our relationships and our spiritual lives. It strikes me that precisely the opposite is true: we are not materialistic enough.

29 May

Tickets to ride

Cape Town/Durban/Johannesburg: £319

29 May

Herbert Ypma . . . never travels without

A necessity: Boris, my girlfriend's teddy bear. He is great because if I lose my suitcase, I can always identify it by the bear inside. He is a constant reminder of my girlfriend, and it is always nice that when the hotel staff turn down my bed, they tuck Boris in. He is a polar bear and, after so much travelling he is off-white rather than white.

Herbert Ypma29 May

Upwardly immobile

Methodius Placid Felicité is perfectly cast as entertainment manager of the Windjammer Landing, Labrelotte Bay, St Lucia.

29 May

Contraception

The best laid plans can go awry. Since sun, sea and sand are invariably linked to sex, most people think about contraceptive precautions before they pack, but it can all go horribly wrong. Perhaps your precious pills are in the suitcase the airline manages to lose, perhaps they are in the handbag that gets stolen, perhaps you go down with a nasty stomach bug which effectively flushes the pill out of your system, or perhaps the condom splits.

Sarah Boseley, Health Correspondent29 May

Northern light

It's not dark, and it's certainly not gloomy. Gothenburgers celebrate the sunshine in street cafes just like anybody else. David Ward has to rethink some cultural preconceptions

29 May

Frontier and back

Emily Barr carries on up the Khyber, reassuringly invisible beneath a long tunic and a pair of baggy trousers.

29 May

What's hot in ... June

Greece is dirt cheap this month as the Kosovo crisis is deterring tourists.

Jeannette Hyde29 May

All for one

I have read more than once that the first all-inclusive resorts were introduced into Jamaica in the 1970s to protect tourists from political violence. Poor Jamaica. Poor tourists. The all-inclusive was an insurance against a bad day in that so-called paradise so that the tourists could continue to enjoy their holiday whatever the misery beyond the security gate.

22 May

An unfair exchange

It's time we introduced a little bit of honesty into the debate about tourism. We don't go abroad to save the planet. We go to enjoy ourselves. Hardly any of the ethical arguments advanced in support of travelling for fun survive even the briefest examination.

15 May

Rubble rousers

Once Beirut was the Paris of the Middle East. Then it became a byword for urban destruction. Katharine Viner on life after the apocalypse

Katharine Viner6 Mar

Dame Shirley of Tel Aviv

Dame Shirley Porter would not agree to talk in her flat in Israel, overlooking the sea. 'People write about gold taps and that sort of thing,' she said, accurately. Instead we would take a trip by boat down the Yarkon River which flows through Tel Aviv on its way from the hills of the West Bank to the Mediterranean and which is indisputably filthy. In 1997 three athletes at the Maccabi Games the Jewish Olympics fell into the water when a bridge they were crossing collapsed. They later died, not from injuries incurred when the structure gave way, but from poisoning.

Jay Rayner28 Feb

Porter quits Tories

Dame Shirley Porter, the disgraced former leader of Westminster Council, has left the Conservative Party.

Jay Rayner28 Feb

Blair's promised land

Iraq, Tony Blair told us, had to be bombed because Saddam Hussein is 'a serial breaker of promises'. If the fickleness of a country's leader is now regarded as sufficient justification for blowing up its installations, we in Britain had better start building some bomb shelters. To the inglorious litany of the promised freedom of information act, integrated transport policy, hunting bill and banning of tobacco sponsorship, and pledges not to build the disastrous Birmingham Northern Relief Road and Cardiff Bay Barrage, we can add yet another broken promise.

9 Jan

A world to the wise

At the end of South Africa's famous Garden Route there is a community soup kitchen providing food to local people in exchange for - of all things - plastic bags (a means of dealing with the local litter problem). These are then transformed by local women into bright hats, bags and mats which are popular with tourists. The Masithandane members also give tours of the workshop, the soup kitchen, the local gardens and provide traditional meals in their homes. Out of poverty and a litter problem has come economic independence and a fascinating opportunity for tourists to meet with ordinary black South Africans.

19 Dec

Out of bounds

I never like travel books. Who wants to read the egotistical ramblings of somebody else's holiday? But this week, I read one I couldn't put down. It made me cry.

8 Jul

The big sun trap

It's not just the British arms industry that's currently under ethical scrutiny. Think sunshine. Think floppy hats. Think relaxation - the spotlight is also on the 'industry' of tourism. With a global worth of $3,564 billion, tourism is a powerful economic force. But the thirst for profit, is, as ever, getting in the way of ethics.

4 Jul

Whose wildlife is it, anyway?

Professor Bernhard Grzimek is revered as the father of East African conservation. The film he made with his son Michael, Serengeti Shall Die, won the 1959 Oscar for best documentary, and his book of the same title is still widely read.

20 Jun

Two nations linked by blood, sweat and toil

More than 2,000 invited guests and representatives of the world's media will swoop on Folkestone and Calais to watch the heads of state try out the tunnel. Yet the elaborate celebrations have a hollow ring: lengthy testing of trains has meant the tunnel is still not open for business. A limited inter-capital Eurostar foot passenger service will start in July the first Le Shuttle car services are due to start in October.

Francois Came6 May

Fully booked

Just as top men in Levi Strauss are said to wake up in San Francisco wondering whether anyone is going to want to buy their jeans any more, so booksellers must have begun to wonder whether the apparently insatiable demand for travel books will suddenly end, never to return.

Eric Newby19 Dec

Travel

Travel stories

Rediscover Your Roots

Tickets to ride

Herbert Ypma . . . never travels without

Upwardly immobile

Contraception

Northern light

Frontier and back

What's hot in ... June

All for one

An unfair exchange

Rubble rousers

Dame Shirley of Tel Aviv

Porter quits Tories

Blair's promised land

A world to the wise

Out of bounds

The big sun trap

Whose wildlife is it, anyway?

Two nations linked by blood, sweat and toil

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