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While the café’s role as the other office has a long and distinguished history – especially in Europe – it’s entering a second golden age because of the internet, says Selwyn Parker

This collection of mid to upscale deluxe hotels and residences offers stunning surroundings and convenient locations in Europe’s most beautiful and exciting cities

Ira Kerns, Managing Director of MeetingMetrics, takes a Darwinian view of life and death in the meeting industry

These days, no luxury hotel worth its five stars dare open its doors without providing sumptuous spa facilities. But although the health and fitness phenomenon is relatively new to the tourism business, the people of Budapest have known about it for centuries, says David Neville Williams

Tailor your spa break to Prague with our cities guide

With its appealing mixture of old and new, tourism is booming. And so is business, says Steven Rowland

Getting rid of air miles and reward points is a tricky endeavour, and invariably thankless, says Stuart White

Poland is undergoing something of a renaissance: minor blips aside, its economy has been growing since its ascension into the EU in 2004. Productivity is up, unemployment is down, infrastructure is improving, they are co-hosting – along with the Ukraine – the 2012 European Championships and there’s a tangible prosperity about the place. Steven Rowland explores a city on the up

With a past boasting more setbacks than a TV repair shop, Poland has done well to join the swelling ranks of vogue weekend destinations cropping up all over Eastern Europe, luring young westerners with bargain flights, stunning scenery and cheap beer, as Paul Evans find out

Ginny McGrath learns snowkiting from a pro in Switzerland and finds it the green alternative to heli skiing

Both now capitals, Prague and Bratislava share history and an alluring appeal, enthuses Roger St Pierre