Forced to go by air, travelling to the holiday resort (7)
I believe the answer is:
madeira
'the holiday resort' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how they can define each other.
'forced to go by air travelling' is the wordplay.
'forced' becomes 'made' (both can mean coerced).
'to go by' says to put letters next to each other.
'travelling' indicates anagramming the letters.
'air' with letters rearranged gives 'ira'.
'made'+'ira'='MADEIRA'
'to' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for madeira that I've seen before include "Island in the Atlantic Ocean" , "Islands in the Stream?" , "Fortified white wine from island off NW Africa" , "A fortified wine, a rich sponge" , "Fortified Portuguese wine" .)