EUROPE’S senior-level managers and executives take their work with them on holidays, a new survey has revealed. It showed the majority of senior professionals travel on holidays with a laptop as well as their mobile so they can keep working while they’re away.

When asked about the extent they engage in work on holiday, different countries fared differently. Almost 60% of British, Spanish, French and Italians check their work e-mail at least every other day while abroad, Germans only do so “in urgent cases”.

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MAJORCA broke its own record recently by handling 160,000 passengers in a single day according to officials at Palma International Airport. One of those, Charlotte Ashton, who was visiting the island from London, told Select Traveller: “The airport was heaving with thousands of people from Britain, Germany, France and Holland arriving. The flight from London was full and the airport at full capacity with every baggage carousel being used and arrivals chock-a-block with visitors ready to enjoy the sights of Majorca.”

Palma Airport is one of the top 20 busiest airports in Europe, ranked 16th in 2010 when over 21.1 million passengers passed through. It is Spain’s third busiest after Madrid Barajas and Barcelona El Prat.

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MEN are twice as likely as women to scupper holiday plans by being forgetful, a survey carried out for This Water’s Perfect Summer campaign has revealed. While a fifth of men admit to having suffered that awful sinking feeling when realising they’ve forgotten to pack their passports or plane tickets, less than 10% of women confessed to making the same mistake.

However, having actually made it on holiday, women tend to be more mishap-prone – twice as many women (20%) suffer from sunburn or bad mosquito bites as men.

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WITH just over seven months to go until the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic, a second cruise to commemorate the disaster has been organised after the first was sold out within days of tickets going on sale. The first commemorative cruise is leaving from Southampton, but the second on board the Azamara Journey will leave from New York on April 10 2012. New packages for UK customers including return flights from London to New York and a berth on the eight-night all inclusive cruise have gone on sale and prices start from £4,419 per person. Flights leave from London on April 8 2012 and the price also includes two nights’ accommodation in New York at the Marriott East Side.

With a new ITV mini-series about the liner’s final hours penned by Downtown Abbey writer Julian Fellowes now in production, organisers of the original Titanic Memorial Cruise have had a surge of interest from people who want to be part of the centenary commemoration. As well as a host of Titanic specialists on board, including Dana McCauley, author of Last Dinner on the Titanic, the cruise includes a visit to Halifax, the final resting place of many lost in the tragedy, and a memorial service will be held at the site where the Titanic sank.

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SOME of the world’s top Creole stars will be descending on the tiny island of Dominica in the Caribbean in October for the celebrated World Creole Music Festival. The festival, which is hugely popular with tourists, takes place this year from October 28-30. Among the headliners this year is Ali Campbell, the legendary voice of the British reggae band UB40, Third World, Swinging Stars, Dobet Gnahoré, Jeff Joseph & Grammacks Fame plus Alex Catherine. Dominica is a spectacular green island of rugged mountains, lush rainforests and rushing rivers in the Eastern Caribbean, lying south of Guadeloupe and north of Martinique.

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