No, not Las Vegas, but Eilat, right at the southernmost tip of Israel on the Gulf of Aqaba.

I am one of four journos, guests of the tourist boards, national and local, flown from Blighty by El Al to let the world in on the awe-inspiring amenities and attractions of the city.

Eilat’s name means ‘grove of trees’.

It was given to an abandoned frontier post in 1949 by the ambitiously-named Committee for the Designation of Place Names in the Negev, close to the Biblical Elath, where King Solomon built his ships.

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