{"id":18190,"date":"2011-08-16T06:05:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T06:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/?p=18190"},"modified":"2025-05-31T11:29:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T11:29:57","slug":"world-travel-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/world-travel-news-2.html","title":{"rendered":"World travel news August 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spotted by Matt Doughty on TravelMole:-<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;New York named as &#8216;endangered destination&#8217;.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You might be wondering what New York, Riga in Latvia, the island of Madagascar and Beijing&#8217;s historic hutongs have in common, but they are all on an endangered destinations lists.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Read more at\u00a0<\/strong>http:\/\/www.travelmole.com<\/p>\n<p>Received by The Ant from Avalon Travel Publishing:-<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Avalon Travel has released the eBook editions of Moon Fiji and Moon Tahiti, the leading travel guidebooks to the South Pacific. 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