Business travel is slowly rebounding to pre-pandemic norms

It turns out that jet-setting on the company dime has eternal appeal. Business trips can conjure up images of fancy first-class tickets to major cities or staying at a Hilton in a small town about 20 minutes from the airport. Either way, it seems that the pandemic didn’t kill the corporate travel bug. The brakes […]

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Pinterest’s 2024 Travel Report Hints at Low-Key Style

Pinterest has released its annual travel report, highlighting the destinations, activities, and other travel-related terms—including aesthetics—with the biggest increases in searches year over year (February–March 2024 compared with the same period in 2023). You might be thinking, “What does travel have to do with jewelry?” and that’s a fair query—there is no mention of jewels […]

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Digital Wallets Provide Local Touch to Connected Travel

Alipay+ unveiled a cross-border payments initiative in a move to boost Hong Kong’s tourism and commerce sector. The platform facilitates transactions for users of 14 overseas mobile wallets and bank apps from nine countries and regions. Among the eWallets and bank apps newly introduced to the city’s landscape are Hipay from Mongolia, Malaysia’s MyPB by Public Bank Berhad and Touch ’n Go eWallet, MPay from Macau SAR, Changi Pay and OCBC Digital from Singapore and Tinaba from Italy. This […]

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Women-only tours: a growing travel trend today?

Premium tour provider Insight Vacations will roll out its first women-only tours in 2025 to encourage solo travel and spotlight women in the travel industry Ever wished you could travel to someplace exotic without having to wait on your regular travel buddies to align their schedules and agree on a destination? Have you always wanted […]

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Experts say Sussexes want their own ‘rival royal roadshow’ with their unofficial trip to Nigeria, as they accuse couple of trying to ‘have their cake and eat it’ by ‘exploiting’ Palace connections

The exiled royal couple are set to head to Nigeria for an unofficial tour in May Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been accused of wanting their own ‘rival royal roadshow’ as they embark on their first non-official royal tour of Nigeria, with royal experts claiming the couple are trying to ‘have their cake and eat […]

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Harry and Meghan’s royal tour in all but name: Experts say Sussexes want their own ‘rival royal roadshow’ with their unofficial trip to Nigeria, as they accuse couple of trying to ‘have their cake and eat it’ by ‘exploiting’ Palace connections

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been accused of wanting their own ‘rival royal roadshow’ as they embark on their first non-official royal tour of Nigeria, with royal experts claiming the couple are trying to ‘have their cake and eat it’. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are set to travel to the African country […]

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