Thailand is considering making travel insurance compulsory with travellers obliged to purchase a special policy from airports when they arrive. Thailand is considering introducing compulsory travel insurance for tourists. Image by Nopkamon Tanayakorn/Shutterstock Pending approval from the the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Sports, the new policy – which would cost 20 baht (£0.52/€0.58/US$0.65) for […]

Tropical vacations should be a time to unwind, and there’s nothing relaxing about extreme weather. By choosing the best beach vacations during hurricane season, you can lower your risk of trip interruption, emergency evacuations, or worse, and instead focus on fruity drinks and beach reading. Unfortunately, the same elements that draw tourists to tropical destinations, […]

Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov are pre-revolutionary Russian entrepreneurs, whose names were largely forgotten for the most part of the 20th century. But both of them managed to amass such unique collections of turn-of-the-century art that today they still constitute the bulk of impressionist and post-impressionist collections at Russia’s two major museums: Pushkin Museum in […]

After over a decade of hoping on Italy’s part, its Prosecco region in north-eastern Veneto has finally been added to the Unesco World Heritage list. The vineyards at Valdobbiadene are now a Unesco World Heritage Site. Image: Chiara Salvadori Located in north-eastern Italy, the area takes in the hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, where grapes […]