Last resort

The last chance to build a new ski village in Europe is how developers describe a plan to open an entirely new, car-free complex on the slopes of the purpose-built French resort of Les Arcs.

Details of the project, which will include 800 high-quality apartments, a spa, swimming pools and restaurants at 1,950 metres, emerged for the first time yesterday. The village is scheduled to open for the 2003-2004 season - at the same time as the planned new lift connecting Les Arcs with its neighbour, La Plagne.

Behind the scheme is the Compagnie des Alpes, which has interests in a clutch of European resorts, and Canada's Intrawest, a developer of North American resorts including British Columbia's Whistler-Blackcomb.

Accommodation will allow holidaymakers to ski in and out. Intrawest's involvement suggests the apartments will represent a significant leap forward from the cramped egg boxes endured by millions of skiers since the advent of French purpose-built resorts. The apartments will be for sale, though it is likely that, when they are not being used by their owners, they will be rented out under the management of a major hotel company.

Southern trails

Walk South East England is a new brochure featuring 20 of the south's best walks. The brochure, which lists accommodation, has walks along the Downs, coastal trails, canals and routes exploring the Weald and country villages in Hampshire, Kent, Surrey, East Sussex and West Sussex. It is available free from the South East England Tourist Board (01892 540766, southeastwalks.com).

Brussels flights

British European (08705 676676, british-european.com) is launching scheduled services to Brussels from Newcastle, Birmingham and Edinburgh, taking advantage of the collapse of Sabena.

Mississippi winning

Jeannine Williamson's story about canoeing on the Mississippi, which the Guardian printed in June, was judged the Best Overseas Feature by the British Guild of Travel Writers' at a ceremony in London this week.

New destinations

Page & Moy's Europe and Worldwide brochure for 2002 includes new itineraries to Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Austria. For a brochure, call 08700 106434.

Photo ID required

EasyJet (0870 6000000, easyjet.com) now requires all passengers on domestic flights to provide photo identification (eg passport, national identity card or driving licence with photo) when they check in.

Passenger drop

London City Airport handled 138,187 passengers last month, a drop of 5% on October last year. Numbers are still 11% up on 1999.

In last week's article, Military honours, the email address of Middlebrook-Hodgson Batlefield Tours should have read mjhodgson@lancfile.demon.co.uk.