When you’re going off travelling, it always helps to have a little luck on your side. Of course, common sense and good organization skills are also going to come in super useful, but it’s a combination of everything that will really work in your favour. So, here are a few top tips to give you the best of luck wherever you go!

Luxurious European holiday destinations are being made easy by the ever growing and evolving transportation market. If you’re not too keen on flying, there are still options that make it easy to visit Europe, and to find the perfect holiday destination catered to you. Holiday destinations are continually changing and more and more luxurious rental and hotel spots are nearer on the map for the UK traveller than expected.

Travelstart, the South African-based Online Travel Agency (OTA) with offices throughout Africa and subsidiaries in the Middle East and Turkey, today announced a US$40 million funding from Amadeus Capital Partners, the global technology investor. With the new funding comes a strategic partnership with Africa’s largest mobile telecommunications provider MTN [JSE: MTN] which has a subscriber base of more than 230 million. The funding will be used for Travelstart’s expansion and to solidify the company’s position as the biggest OTA player on that continent.

Finding the perfect holiday for you and your family can be challenging, especially when you don’t know where to look in the first place! Thankfully you will never be short of online operators keen to share with you all the latest holiday offers and packages, but the real challenge is filtering through the myriad of holidays out there and finding what’s right for you.

With 22 Boeing Dreamliner planes on order and a host of new destinations on the horizon, the future looks bright for Spanish-owned carrier Air Europa. Here Breaking Travel News editor Chris O’Toole sits down with UK director Colin Stewart to discuss the latest developments at the carrier, the opportunities afforded by the falling price of oil, and the changing political situation in the Caribbean.

For generations Cuba has been a tantalising prospect for American travellers, always just out of reach across the Straits of Florida. Now, with restrictions on travel beginning to lift, the rapidly growing flows of tourists to the capital Havana risk destroying what makes the city so vibrant. Here Breaking Travel News editor Chris O’Toole visits to find a city on the cusp of resurrection.