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Love is literally in the air today, as daters from across Britain and Western Europe set a new Guinness World Record for the world's highest ever speed date at an altitude of 35,000 feet, as they flew to the capital of romance, Venice. The Guinness World Record has been broken as part of Expedia's 'Holidate', a social experiment designed to prove the link between travel and love, with daters taking part in a series of different dates over 24 hours; in the UK, in the air and in Venice. The 60 male and female singletons, including 30 daters from the UK, signed up for the Expedia dating experiment through new dating website, DoingSomething, the first dating site that focuses on interesting, fun activities people can do on dates. Eleanor Berg, 28, an information rights advisor from Camberwell, London, said: "It was a really great and original thing to have been a part of, and something that I will never forget. It is amazing to think I have taken part in a world record breaking experience." Will Pearce, 24, an actor from south east London, said: "It was a fantastic achievement and a real once in a lifetime experience. It certainly exceeded the standards of your typical date, and it was like no other date I've ever been on. And I never thought I'd break a world record so that was amazing too." The world's largest online travel company launched the 'Holidate' after research found that travel is the top topic when it comes to a first date. Expedia found that the majority of Brits use travel (44%) as a topic of conversation when trying to woo a potential partner -- trumping the usual music (41%) and work (39%) chat. Expedia's research also found that travel is key to attracting the perfect partner; so much so that one in ten people are prepared to lie about the places they have been to impress Mr or Mrs right. Perhaps they are wise to do so with a quarter of us admitting to being turned off someone due to the lack of travel experience. A fifth of us cited this as the biggest turn off when looking at online dating profiles and a third of Brits being positively attracted to someone based on their travels. The research also proved that one good date may be all it takes with almost a third (29%) of Brits claiming they 'knew they had met the one after the first date'. The lucky participants experienced four dating experiences to see how different factors affect the dating experience; one in the UK in a traditional bar date setting where they were not allowed to discuss travel and one in the same setting where, this time they were allowed to talk about travel, one in the air on a flight over to Venice consisting of 21 brief encounters to set the new record, and one in Venice, the city of love, while doing an activity based on their shared interests in the romantic city. Videoplugger is a fast growing video library and media agency representing video makers the world over. Videoplugger's production team Drm.am covers the biggest star studded London premieres, film festivals and more. Corporate website: www.videoplugger.com Like Videoplugger on Facebook: www.facebook.com/videoplugger Follow Videoplugger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/videoplugger To license videos register here: http://www.mmnc.net/index.php?p=register