Low-cost airline Norwegian has launched the UK’s cheapest direct flight to the bright lights of Las Vegas, as the carrier continues its rapid growth in Britain. Europe’s third largest low-cost airline will launch two flights from Gatwick on a Monday and Thursday each week, perfect for a weekend break. Here Eleanor Hawkins takes a trip for Breaking Travel News.

With celebrities falling like flies, a new era developing in the White House and the UK economy set for the rocks following the decision to leave the European Union, Eleanor Hawkins here decides to get away from it all in that perennial adult playground, Las Vegas. Take a tour of the city as we discover the latest shows, restaurants and attractions in this enduring wonderland.

Reader Offers Ltd, the UK’s No. 1 independent cruise retailer, has today unveiled a new ‘ROL Cruise’ brand identity.  Included in the refresh programme is a new corporate logo, a new strapline of ‘Experience the Difference’, along with the launch of an advanced website that provides customers with a richer online experience and improved access to its wide array of world-class cruise holidays.

As Zimbabwe prepares to commission the expanded Victoria Falls airport, doubling visitor capacity at one of the world’s most famous attractions, tourism minister Walter Mzembi here chats with Breaking Travel News editor Chris O’Toole about the facility’s transformative potential. Also on the agenda are Mzembi’s own personal ambitions to lead the United Nations World Tourism Organisation and the vote of confidence this would provide for the country.

Traveling abroad? Want a relaxing vacation? Stay well informed and read up on the places you are visiting in advance so that you can be prepared prior to your departure. It’s so much easier to have all the information at your fingertips as you travel, to avoid sweating the small stuff along the way.

The Marriott Hotels brand is evolving as the hotel giant seeks to transform every aspect of a stay, enabling the next generation of explorers to ‘Travel Brilliantly’. Here Breaking Travel News editor Chris O’Toole sits down with the Marriott senior leadership to discuss the changes at the company and what they might mean for the future of hospitality.