Focusing on Leipzig, Germany, the Leipzig Travel App includes city travel tips, directions to tourist information offices, maps that point out sites near your location, an events calendar, places to catch public transportation or taxis, emergency numbers and the ability to book day tours and accommodations. Free on Android and iTunes.
Travelers in the North Cotswolds can visit a 400-year-old thatched “Secret Cottage,” and get a glimpse into 17th-century life, during a 6-hour tour put on by Cotswold Tourism Tours (call Becky Simpson at +44 1608 674 700 or visit www.cotswoldtourismtours.co.uk).
Visitors to the town of Arviat, on the west coast of Hudson Bay in Canada’s northern Nunavut province, can enjoy Inuit-operated cultural activities, including traditional hunting, dogsled rides and storytelling, trying foods like caribou and musk ox, and seeing places of historical interest, such as Qikiqtaarjuk, with evidence of 800-plus years of human occupation. Seasonal tours focus on wildlife, including caribou and polar bear migrations.
In northeastern Australia in May 2015, the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park (Cairns Western Arterial Rd., Caravonica, Queensland, 4878, Australia; phone +61 7 4042 9999, www.tjapukai.com.au) opened an art gallery and two theaters, including one offering a 360-degree interactive experience, including the floor.
For lost baggage, up to $2,000 can be awarded to a traveler using the service Blue Ribbon Bags (www.blueribbonbags.com).
A single service fee, paid anytime before departure, covers all checked bags. If any of that baggage is lost by the airline, Blue Ribbon Bags will provide a dedicated representative who will work with the airline to expedite the return of the bag(s). On a website, the traveler can view real-time updates of his claim.
In a partnership with AmaWaterways, Adventures by Disney (800/543-0865, www.adventuresbydisney.com), a separate company from Disney Cruise Line, is running seven Danube River cruises in 2016, the Walt Disney Company’s first foray into river cruising.
The 7-night cruises, with family- oriented activities, sail from Budapest, Hungary, to Vilshofen, Germany, in July, August and December. The Dec. 15 date includes visits to Christmas markets. Cabins start at $4,179 per person, double occupancy, including meals, gratuities and airport transfers.
Budget European airline Germanwings will have changed its name to Eurowings by November 2015. The name change is already in effect on flights between Germany and the United Kingdom. The name change had been planned before the crash of a Germanwings flight on March 24 that killed all 150 people on board.
Tracing 1,000 years of the Jewish community’s history in Poland, The Museum of the History of Polish Jews (6 Mordechaja Anielewicza St., 00-157 Warsaw, Poland; phone +48 22 471 03 01, www.jewishmuseum.org.pl/en) opened in Warsaw in October 2014. The core exhibit, eight galleries totaling more than 4,000 square feet, includes models and reconstructions, artifacts, paintings and interactive installations.
In Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, the Pompey Museum of Slavery & Emancipation (phone +1 242 356 0495, www.ammcbahamas.com) reopened in November 2014.
Located at Bay and George streets, it had been closed since 2011 when a fire engulfed the museum’s 18th-century building. Ninety percent of the artifacts were saved from the fire, many of which are in the newly restored museum.
Dublin, Ireland, has launched a Dublin Pass card that gives the holder free entry to 33 city attractions, many that allow pass holders to skip lines, plus one-way airport-city center Aircoach transfer. Among locations free for pass holders are the James Joyce Centre, Christ Church Cathedral and the Guinness Storehouse.
A pass runs €39 (near $42), adult, or €21, child (5-15), for one day up to €105/€54 for a 6-day pass, with 2- and 3-day versions too.