19 Best Places to Solo Travel for Women in 2024

1 Helsinki, Finland Miemo Penttinen – miemo.net//Getty Images Finland has been voted the happiest country in the world seven years in a row, and the country’s joy is most contagious in the capital city. Vintage shopping is a major thing in Helsinki (don’t skip ReLove, a second-hand chain that moonlights as a cute café), as […]

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Best travel books 2024: Top titles to inspire your next adventure

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Book sales rocket during periods when we’re most likely to jet off on holiday (there’s always room in the suitcase for just one more), be that during school summer break or […]

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Uncover the Latest Adventure Travel Craze in 2024

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 Reading Time: 3 minutes The adventure travel industry is constantly evolving, and it’s time for a mid-year check-in on the latest trends. Following Adventure Travel Trade Association’s 2024 Annual State of the Adventure Travel Industry Snapshot Report released in May, we revisit the predictions made earlier this year and observe the […]

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Where is hot in October? 19 balmy destinations

Average October temperature: 21℃ Thrillingly elemental, the Azores absorb you in nature: though Portuguese, they’re 1,000 miles from the mainland, cast gloriously adrift in the mid-Atlantic. Here, explorers (or, rather, clued-in Lisboetas and surfers) find a lost world of blue-green crater lakes, bubbling mud pools, and waterfalls rushing down green cliffs – a sort of […]

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Airbnb Shares Dropped Dramatically As Travel Demand Slows

What’s going on here? Airbnb’s shares plummeted nearly 16% in premarket trading on August 7, 2024, after its third-quarter revenue forecast fell short of expectations, reflecting concerns over slowing travel demand and shorter booking windows in the US. What does this mean? Airbnb’s latest financial outlook signals a strong headwind in the travel industry. Since […]

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10 hottest countries in the world

The average temperature across the world in 2023 was the highest ever recorded and, with month after month continuing to break heat records and the hottest day ever recorded on 22 July, 2024 is on track to be even worse. The highest temperatures are generally recorded in countries close to the Equator, where yearly averages […]

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TTG – Cruise – Travel Counsellors seeks experts to ’empower’ new-to-cruise agents

06 Aug 2024by Harry Kemble Travel Counsellors is looking for experts among its homeworkers to support a new programme designed to help seasoned cruise experts and new-to-cruise agents.  Travel Counsellors boosting their cruise product knowledge on an Explora Journeys sailing last year (Credit: Travel Counsellors) The homeworking giant has launched its Set Sail programme following record […]

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