Cathay Pacific will introduce a new seasonal service between Hong Kong and Christchurch from December 2017, directly linking the two cities by air for the first time and complementing the airline’s existing services to Auckland.The non-stop Christchurch service will operate…
IT’S no secret that North Korea is a mysterious place, both as an entity of its own and as a travel destination.Tourism in the capital of Pyongyang is highly restricted which means that booking a trip through a state-endorsed guided…
ONLINE hotel aggregator and booking service OYO has become the youngest Indian startup to feature on LinkedIn’s prestigious Top Attractors list for India.Venture capital database CB Insights predicts that OYO will be one of the top 50 startups most likely…
OWING to its strong dollar, Hong Kong is named the most expensive city in the world for expatriates while four other Asian cities make the top ten.According to Financial Times, Hong Kong has the least affordable housing in the world…
THE biggest source market for tourism in the Asia-Pacific is China, whose visitors are expected to take up 15.7 percent of the market, which will translate to approximately 50.4 million visitors in 2016.The index also showed that Chinese tourists will…
I BOUGHT MY FIRST PLANE TICKET for a solo trip to Africa when I was 18. I had decided to climb Kilimanjaro pretty much on a whim and with the vague hope of impressing girls, and was looking forward to…
ROLLER COASTERS DON’T NEED MODIFICATIONS in order to be scary. Falling from the sky on a rickety pile of metal is terrifying enough as it is. But Six Flags in Maryland has decided to up the ante. They’ve invented a…
1. Your parents usually knew what they were talking about.When I was in my teens and early 20s, I harbored an intense suspicion that my parents never knew what they were talking about. I still occasionally harbor this suspicion on…
Turbulence is a bumpy business. Besides inducing anxiety in passengers around the world, it costs the airline industry about $100 million per year because of factors like crew and passenger injuries, maintenance, operational issues and money lost while planes are…
As frequent flyers, it can be easy to think that you’re being misled by airlines and their frequent flyer programs. And a couple of years ago, a congressman from Florida, Alan Grayson, felt the same, prompting the Inspector General of…
