‘Getaway,’ Australia’s most popular televised travel show, has made the Italian capital of Rome the latest Urban Adventures destination to be brought into Australian homes. Taken under the wing of a local Urban Adventures guide, ‘Getaway’ presenter Catriona Rowntree took a leisurely three-hour stroll through this romantic European metropolis, following the pages of Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling book, ‘Eat Pray Love.’

Inspired by Make Travel Fair’s 10 #whltravel Tweeps Twittering, which was in turn inspired by the 10 #Travel Tweeps Twittering post published on Matador’s Travelers Notebook, in March 2010 we published 10 More #whltravel Tweeps Tweeting, all from the WHL Group. Given the interest in this, we decided to share yet another 10 #whltravel tweeps tweeting.

Perhaps no other North American city rocks quite as hard as Seattle – the celebrated birthplace of grunge music – where artists such as Ann Wilson and Kurt Cobain first got their start. From its extensive rock pedigree to its growing hip-hop and electronic music scenes, the sights and sounds of ‘Jet City’ are revealed on a new 2.5-hour tour courtesy of Seattle Urban Adventures, the subject of the latest episode of Getaway, the highest-rated travel show in Australia, with approximately 1.2 million weekly viewers.

On Thursday 1 April, Urban Adventures was featured on Getaway, Australia’s favourite travel show. The chosen destination – one of more than 50 in 30-plus countries on six continents in which Urban Adventures offers unique day tours – was the inimitable Golden Gate city of San Francisco, California.

Inspired by Make Travel Fair’s 10 #whltravel Tweeps Twittering, which was in turn inspired by the 10 #Travel Tweeps Twittering post published on Matador’s Travelers Notebook, here are another 10 pictures of twitter users from the WHL Group.

A Local Travel movement is finding its legs. Strong legs. Last weekend, in a step to find good solid ground upon which to exercise those legs, I published two blog posts about it, one on the now-defunct Lonely Planet Travel Blog hosted by Yahoo!7 Travel in Australia and the other on The Brooklyn Nomad’s blog. It’s…

On Sunday 10 October, Ethan Gelber, editor of this blog and at present visiting New York City, appeared on Heritage Radio Network’s Q-Report to talk about responsible travel and whl.travel. A full recording of the conversation with hosts Katy Keiffer and Patrick Martins is available online here.

On July 16, 2009, .travel posted a congratulatory news flash recognising whl.travel’s continuing success and its recent announcement that it’s expanding into more than 100 countries worldwide. It reads as follows: