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A vacation begins long before a suitcase is packed. It begins in an ordinary moment: a tiring afternoon, a conversation with a friend, a photograph of somewhere unfamiliar. Suddenly, the mind moves beyond its immediate surroundings. We imagine waking without an alarm, sharing an unhurried meal or standing somewhere that makes our everyday concerns feel smaller. Planning a vacation gives that imagined life a date, a destination and the possibility of becoming real.

Breaking Travel News Editor-in-Chief Justin Cooke sat down for an exclusive conversation with Dr Abdulla Niyaz, the Maldives’ Minister of State for Tourism and Civil Aviation, to discuss the destination’s response to the Middle East crisis and the ambitions shaping its next chapter.

Montenegro is preparing to welcome travel and tourism leaders from across the continent for the World Travel Awards Europe Gala Ceremony 2026. The ceremony is taking place at Hyatt Regency Kotor Bay Resort on 17 October 2026, marking the first World Travel Awards event in Montenegro in its 33-year history. The evening is bringing together leading travel, tourism and hospitality brands from across Europe to celebrate excellence across a wide range of categories, including hotels, airlines, tour operators and destinations.

London City, Dallas Love and New York LaGuardia have been unveiled as the most efficient airports for business traveler arrivals according to new data from Blacklane, the global chauffeur service. The inaugural Blacklane Business Travel Efficiency Index conducted a global study of chauffeur-tracked arrivals, pick-up and drop-off data across 27 top airports for business travel in 12 cities and 9 countries, collected between January 2025 and September 2026. Designed to help business travelers and travel managers alike plan productive business trips, the index found:

Grace Chang, also known by her stage name Ge Lan, died in August at the age of 93. She is widely remembered today for her lively performance in Mambo Girl, the 1957 Chinese-language musical that made her a star. Famed for pure roles expressing the aspirations of would-be middle-class Hong Kong girls, Chang initially played characters who were hip, popular, socially adept, conscientious and relatively well-off, possessing no hint of sexuality; her character in Mambo Girl is almost...

3/5 stars Taika Waititi, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Jojo Rabbit (2019), brings his trademark quirk to Klara and the Sun, a sunny-side-up sci-fi fable that occasionally delivers flashes of darkness. Based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel of the same name, the film is set in a future where AI companions are the norm. The effervescent Klara (Jenna Ortega) is one such android, albeit a discontinued B1 model now being hawked from a city discount store. Klara’s escape comes when a young girl,...

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Of the Celine alumni who worked under Phoebe Philo and later emerged as influential figures in fashion – including Matthieu Blazy, Daniel Lee, Nadège Vanhee and Michael Rider – Nina Christen is perhaps the least known. Yet the Swiss-Chilean designer is behind some of luxury footwear’s most distinctive silhouettes. If over the last two decades you’ve swapped your pumps for combat boots, square-toe heeled sandals or supple leather loafers, you may have Christen to thank. Besides Celine, her résumé...

Fu Hao is one of the earliest documented female military generals in history, yet relatively little is known about her. Most of the information gathered about her life is from her tomb. One thing we do know is that she lived during the Shang dynasty (1600BC-1046BC), before the unification of China. Fu’s tomb was excavated in 1976. Its contents led archaeologists to conclude she was a high-ranking royal consort and military general who commanded some of the largest armies of her time. So, who...