The 2005 edition of MeetBritain published by VisitBritain, encourages meeting, incentive and conference organisers to book Britain as a business destination.

The 29th ING Amsterdam Marathon will take place on Sunday 17 October 2004, starting at 11 a.m. at the Olympic Stadium.

Britain's increased pre-occupation with pampering is to be fully evaluated for the first time as part of a new survey organised in association with VisitBritain.

An apparently normal family will arrive by open boat at a rented holiday cottage in Britain to find there is no hot water or electricity... and the only lighting is a box of candles. Amazingly, they’ll be delighted. Meanwhile a happy group will be settling down for a quiet weekend in disused arsenic mine... and a love-struck couple will be setting off for their romantic break in a railway station ticket office.

Every year the three-day Lowlands pop festival brings around 60,000 people to the Six Flags amusement park in the expansive lowlands of Flevopolder, within easy reach of all the major Dutch cities. Highlights of the line-up for 2004 include The Hives, The Chemical Brothers, The Darkness, Faithless and Groove Armada.

Budapest hosts a Dionysian delight of a festival. Winegrowers and distributors offer a myriad Hungarian and foreign wines for sampling.

For several years now, the European Masters have occupied a choice position in the calendar of the European Circuit. Being a tournament with impressive sporting characteristics, it also plays the conviviality card, thanks to the incomparable ambiance at Crans-Montana.

A new breed of hotel is springing up across the UK, modern but luxurious, stylish but informal – and all of them have one thing in common – a state of the art spa. Hotel spas offer the chance to have a relaxing treatment, or even just a soothing swim and steam, without the structure and discipline of a destination spa.