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Phil Spencer looks forward to another trip to The Big Apple, everyone’s favourite business destination

As business cities go, it’s a whopper. Generating more wealth than the whole of Switzerland and existing not only as an economic presence but, following decades as the Hollywood dream factory’s backdrop of choice, as a cultural icon. So we present to you, in glorious technicolour, our guide to the city that never sleeps

Natural disasters have a way of forcing you to appreciate the best things in life; though to be fair, that was never a problem for citizens of the ‘Big Easy’, the fun-time, happy-go-lucky former French colony on the banks of the Mississippi. Reconstruction works after the widespread destruction of 2005 and Hurricane Katrina is well […]

With the Yellowstone National Park as its back yard, and Glacier and Grand Teton as alternative playgrounds for the more energetic, Billings boasts an idyllic location at the heart of the northern US. It may have a population of barely 100,000 but it remains an important gateway for the Northern Rockies and Great Plains and […]

New York is about far more than bricks and mortar, or even the people who inhabit it. It’s importance to the nation runs deeper even than its status as the world’s second biggest financial centre. The streets aren’t quite paved with gold, but to some they might as well be; New York is the embodiment […]

Founded as a coal mining camp in 1859, the city boomed under the weight of inrushing cowboys and gunslingers. Little gold was found, but the prospectors stayed anyway and so the city grew. There’s still a flavour of the Wild West to be found here, particularly if you explore a little way beyond the city […]

Pensacola has a claim to be America’s oldest European settlement – however, the initial site colonised by the Spanish in 1559 was decimated by a hurricane weeks later and shortly thereafter abandoned. It was another 135 years before the French arrived here, after which the natural deep water harbour and strategic position close to French, […]

The name Mackinaw City is a bit of a misnomer; with a population of just 859 in the 2000 census, it is little more than a village. Positioned at the southern end of the Mackinac Bridge – one of the longest suspension bridges in the world that bridges two of the great lakes at the […]

It was Francis Scott Key who, upon witnessing the failed bombardment of Baltimore by the British in 1812, composed the poem The Star-Spangled Banner that was later to provide the lyrics for the American national anthem. Baltimore has never forgotten its role in the revolution and sites like Fort McHenry are great places to explore […]

For more than a millennium, the ancient Hohokam tribe tended the desert in which Phoenix now sits, irrigating it with a series of canals bringing water from the rivers running from the White Tank Mountains. Then, in the centuries preceding Columbus, they vanished, leaving their ruined waterways as their only legacy. Phoenix was born out […]