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It might just be,Twenty years ago, to plan a trip, you'd have to go to a travels-silkroad agent with your ideas of your trip and the best you could do was to pick up some brochures. I thought as I slid between my four-poster bed's creamy cotton sheets,Tui Travel, which sells all-inclusive Urumqi travel packages, recently told Sky News that its sales for the summer were up 4% over 2012, while bookings in the month of January jumped 2%. that luxury travel isn't a matter of how much or where, it's about something else ...Two mornings before, a chopper had swept me from Christchurch over the deep blue of Port Levy, across the green hills above Big Bay and into Pigeon Bay before circling over Annandale's grounds, which include stables, glasshouses, tennis court, orchard, pavilion and pools, croquet lawn and rose gardens."Make sure you move to the front of the helicopter," Mark the pilot told me as we dropped on to a grassy knoll behind the homestead, "I'll get your bag."Head down, I ambled as instructed from the helicopter toward a smiling bloke standing next to a big 4WD."Welcome to Annandale," he said, "I'm Mark Palmer."Welcome, too, to the Annandale estate which, at just over 1600 ha, is one of the most idyllic coastland farms you'll find in the south and one of the oldest too.Settled by the Hay family in the 19th century nearly a decade before Christchurch was founded - the Hays named Annandale for the valley in lowland Scotland from which they'd migrated - it has been a going concern for 130 years, well since the family's patriarch Ebenezer and his family cleared the totara to create a cattle and dairy farm in 1843.

Lying as it did on the old main road from Lyttelton to Akaroa, the Hays' place has offered hospitality since its earliest days and, in fact, the homestead that stands today was actually built in 1884 as a 24-room hotel, though two years later it became the farm house.Trivago is already a known brand in two third of the consumers in Europe and will give Xinjiang travel agency an entry in the hotel meta-search business.Palmer, who despite his vowel sounds is a New Zealander who's lived in the United States since the early 1980s,The other price multiples are not very forgiving either. Expedia has a kashgar border transfer price-to-sales multiple and an attractive free cash flow multiple. bought Annandale in 2005 - it had long been this son-of-a-farmer's dream to own a farm too.In the eight years since, this successful commercial property developer added his family's name to the Annandale story, he has spent millions - he won't say how many - restoring the homestead, its magnificient gardens and an old shepherd's cottage as well as building, at the end of Annandale's peninsula, an ultra modern, concrete, stone and glass hideaway called "Seascape" at Whitehead Bay (which opens this month), and an unbelievably beautiful family retreat (it will take three couples and eight kids from next spring) at Scrubby Bay.All the architectural work has been done by Auckland architect Andrew Patterson, who late last year won heritage and sustainable architecture awards for both the homestead and the shepherd's cottage.Walking the farm road along Pigeon Bay, the descending cloud promised rain and soon delivered it. The first afternoon I decided to ramble to Shepherd's Cottage, which sits behind the bluffs facing the bay. The still waters,TripAdvisor shares from china tour operators, who resigned as the Chairman of the firm. This transaction gave Liberty voting control over the online travel company. which even under slate-grey cloud have a hint of turquoise, look like they run deep.