The European superyacht industry has blossomed over the last ten years, with multi millionaires and billionaires buying yachts in the tens of millions of Euros price range - and when it comes to some billionaires they seem intent on buying a fleet that would put some small countries navies to shame.

With fresh challenges every year from new and old competitors to take away market share, Spain increased her number of visitors in the first couple of months of 2007 for what could be a good year for a country that has been the favourite destination for Europeans for nearly fifty years.

Cruise ships are including Valletta in Malta as a Mediterranean destination more often as part of an overall itineary, and it's come at a time when the island is seeing record numbers of people visiting for a holiday by air - the combination could lead to 2008 being a record year for Malta holidays.

After two decades of growing visitor numbers, Andorra has been increasing her visitor numbers to over ten million a year for ski holidays and happily investing for the future to ensure she remains as one of Europe's top ski destinations but that came to a screeching halt earlier this year when the one thing a ski destination really needs didn't arrive - snow.

An American journalist last year placed the small Mediterranean island of Malta as one of the five safest travel destinations in the world, and a new report from the US this year confirms Malta as one of the safest vacation spots in the world.

The slow pace of life on Malta might have contributed to the late introduction of low cost flights compared to her competitors, or it could have been politicians and the tourist authorities more interested in protecting the island's national airline with attitudes that the rest of Europe began to shrug off in the 80's, but whatever the reason, now that Malta has allowed the low cost airlines, they can't get enough of them.

With the airline industry producing an increase in tourists for 2007, welcome figures have come from Malta's cruise industry too, with a record year of cruise ship passenger arrivals. What makes the figures particularly impressive for the holiday island is that this year's record comes after a record year in 2006, while the number of tourists arriving by air had started from a low 2006 base.

The island of Menorca, also known as Minorca, has long been a favorite among holiday travellers, so much so that the island is nicknamed, 'The Holiday Island'. Anyone familiar with the novels of author Patrick O'Brian, who wrote "Master and Commander", a recent movie starring global heartthrob Russell Crowe, knows that Menorca is a prime location setting for his high seas adventure novels.

Regular travellers to Malta have never had it so good. Not only has their choice of airline and airports serving Malta widened considerably, but the perennial favourite of many business and holiday travellers, Air Malta, has fought back against the new low cost airlines with reduced fares and offers of their own.

Who would love to have discount hotels deal? This has been one of the great perks any traveler would wish to have. When planning a trip or in the course of traveling, a lot of people would find ways to get discounts from any hotel accommodations.