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How to Travel Smarter on Points and Budgets in 2026
Points are getting devalued faster and fares are climbing. Here is how frugal travelers are still booking business class and cheap trips in 2026.
May 19, 2026
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Travel
Summer 2026 Travel: The World Cup and a Turbulent Region Collide
A World Cup spanning three countries and closed Middle East airspace are both reshaping summer routes and fares. Here is what is actually happening.
Jul 10, 2026
Travel
Travel Tips for 2026: The Practical Playbook
New border tech, pricier fares and shifting rules make 2026 a year to plan smarter. Here is the real playbook for booking, packing and crossing borders.
Feb 11, 2026
Travel
Digital Nomad Visas in 2026: Where the Map Moved
Bulgaria, Slovenia, Moldova and Sri Lanka all opened remote work routes recently. Here is where the digital nomad visa map actually shifted.
Mar 27, 2026
Travel
Travellers Are Booking the Grandmother, Not the Landmark
Summer bookings show shorter trips, cooler destinations and a preference for experiences led by lifelong locals and traditional craftspeople. The multi country sprint is losing.
Aug 4, 2026
Travel
Dubai's Visitor Rewards Bet Turns Residents Into Tourism Ambassadors
A new incentive campaign asks Dubai residents to bring friends and family to the city, revealing how destinations compete when regional uncertainty weighs on travel.
Jul 24, 2026
Travel
The Gulf's Autumn Route Map Is Being Redrawn Toward Asia and Russia
Gulf Air returns to Kuala Lumpur on 29 September, Riyadh Air adds London and Dubai, Sharjah gets a Gatwick link, and flynas is flying to St Petersburg and Sochi behind a new visa arrangement.
Aug 17, 2026
Travel
Riyadh Air's First Big Asia Push Follows the Workforce
Islamabad, Lahore and Manila go on sale for a carrier still under 15 destinations. The choice says the airline is chasing volume that already exists rather than demand it has to invent.
Aug 7, 2026
Diving
Gozo Makes a Strong Case for Europe's Most Practical Dive Week
Compact geography, shore access, wrecks and a new six-person hyperbaric unit make Gozo an unusually practical Mediterranean base for a mixed-experience dive trip.
Jul 25, 2026
Latest Trends
How consumers plan to spend differently in 2026
Growing wealth inequality is reshaping consumer behavior. Experiences over goods, values over discounts, and AI shopping tools mark 2026's divide.
May 20, 2025
Diving
Before Booking a Liveaboard, Ask These Safety Questions
DAN warns that remote liveaboard incidents rose sharply in 2024-2025. Divers can reduce risk by checking oxygen, drills, charging rules, exits and evacuation plans before sailing.
Aug 2, 2026
Travel
Bookings Are Back, Confidence Is Still Catching Up
Two months after Iran and Israel's war grounded Gulf flights, travel demand is rebuilding, though not evenly and not everywhere at once.
Aug 28, 2025
Travel
Gulf Aviation Is Heading for a $4.3 Billion Loss, and the Airspace Advisory Still Runs to 31 August
Middle East carriers earned 7.2 billion dollars in 2025 and are forecast to lose 4.3 billion this year. Emirates is flying at three quarters of capacity, jet fuel is up nearly half, and European regulators still advise avoiding four countries' airspace.
Aug 22, 2026
Travel
The World's Tourists Went Somewhere Else This Year, and the Gulf Is Counting the Difference
UN Tourism has global arrivals up two per cent in the first quarter and Middle East arrivals down fourteen. Bahrain lost more than a quarter of its visitors. Egypt, three hours away, gained sixteen per cent.
Aug 26, 2026
Crypto
Binance Stops Processing Transactions With Eleven Platforms From 23 August
The exchange is cutting off transaction processing with HTX and ten other trading platforms, citing regulatory mandates and sanctions enforcement. Users of those venues have a week to move.
Aug 17, 2026
Technology
GITEX Moves to Expo City, and Brings Seven Shows With It
Six thousand eight hundred exhibitors, two hundred thousand visitors and four hundred government entities across five days in December. The interesting part is what has been bolted onto the side of it.
Aug 14, 2026
Business
Why the Gulf Economy Held When the Region Didn't
A war that closed the Strait of Hormuz and hit every GCC state should have broken the region's economics. Reserves and diversification kept it standing.
Jul 16, 2026
Fashion
Brazilcore Is Bigger Than a Flag-Color Outfit
Brazilcore is spreading through sport, music and streetwear, but its most compelling expression comes from local creativity rather than copied symbols.
Jul 27, 2026
Crypto
Stablecoins Are Becoming Payment Infrastructure With Bank-Like Questions
Stablecoins promise faster settlement and programmable money, but reserves, redemption, governance and operational resilience now matter more than hype.
Jul 28, 2026
Fashion
Jazz Shoes Are Fashion's Softer Answer to the Statement Sneaker
Flat lace-ups borrowed from dance studios are giving summer wardrobes a lighter alternative to chunky sneakers and fragile ballet flats.
Jul 27, 2026
Diving
Five Italian Divers Die in Maldives Cave, Rescuer Also Lost
Five Italian divers died in a Maldives cave near Vaavu Atoll on 14 May 2026, and a Maldivian rescue diver died during the search that followed.
May 15, 2026
Sports
The Premier League Restarts 33 Days After a World Cup Final
Arsenal open against Coventry on Friday night. The interesting number is not the scoreline but the gap: a month and two days between the end of a 48-team World Cup and the start of a 380-game league season.
Aug 16, 2026
Design
One Colour Authority Named a White for 2026, the Other Named Three Blues, and Designers Are Selling Brown
Pantone chose Cloud Dancer. Dulux broke its own format and chose a family of blues. Meanwhile the survey of what interior designers say clients actually request puts chocolate brown and maximalism at the top. Three answers, one year.
Aug 22, 2026
Health
Ozempic in a Tablet: What the Rebrand of Oral Semaglutide Actually Changes
Novo Nordisk folded Rybelsus into the Ozempic name in May and put a self-pay price on it. Getting a peptide to survive the stomach is a real achievement, but the tablet is not simply the injection in another form.
Aug 11, 2026
Business
Oil Is Flowing Again, but the Fuel Market Is Still Far From Normal
Crude shipments through the Gulf have recovered sharply, yet refineries and fuel supply remain constrained. That gap explains why cheaper oil may not quickly reach consumers.
Jul 31, 2026
Fashion
The Slim Suit Is Finally Over, and What Replaced It Asks More of the Wearer Than of the Tailor
Menswear has spent two years moving from ultra-slim to relaxed but refined, and the shift is harder than it sounds. A narrow suit hides its faults on the hanger. A generous one does not.
Aug 21, 2026
Diving
Maldives Moves to Regulate Technical Diving After Cave Deaths
After six divers died in a Vaavu Atoll cave, the Maldives is drafting new rules to permit and regulate technical diving in the country for the first time in its history.
May 28, 2026
Diving
Three Divers Drifted Off Puerto Galera and Lived. Most of Surviving That Happens Before You Get In
Two men and a woman surfaced from a dive at Canyon Reef, found no boat, and were carried kilometres out. Whether lost divers are found has surprisingly little to do with the search itself.
Aug 18, 2026
Crypto
Stablecoins Have Reached $320 Billion. The Hard Part Is Becoming Money
Stablecoins are expanding as payment and settlement tools, but BIS and IMF research warns that redemption pressure can connect token risk to traditional financial markets.
Jul 25, 2026
Business
Egypt's $5 Billion Clean-Energy Pipeline Is Bigger Than Solar Farms
Scatec's proposed two-year investment program spans batteries, desalination, wind, solar and green data centers, revealing how Egypt wants clean power to support industry.
Aug 3, 2026
Sports
The Draw Needed a Special Rule for England, and Barcelona Is the Club That Paid for It
We wrote on Wednesday that with three English clubs in Pot 1 the draw could not resolve unless every non-English seed took two English ties. Thursday in Monaco produced exactly that, and handed Barcelona the worst possible version of it.
Aug 28, 2026
Latest Trends
A Strong El Niño Is Building: The Time to Prepare Is Before the Weather Arrives
WMO forecasts point to a rapidly strengthening El Niño, raising the odds of disruptive heat, drought and heavy rain. Preparedness now can reduce damage later.
Jul 31, 2026
Technology
Qatar Is Opening Its Submarine Cable Gateways to More Competition
New access rules for Qatar's cable landing stations aim to make international connectivity fairer and more predictable, strengthening the foundation for cloud and data-center growth.
Aug 1, 2026
Business
Mohammed bin Salman's Record, Measured Against the Numbers He Set Himself
A decade after Vision 2030 was announced, the non-oil economy is the majority of Saudi output, the sovereign fund has grown roughly sixfold, and about 1.3 million more Saudi women are in work. The record is strong, and the interesting part is the method.
Aug 22, 2026
Business
The Federal Reserve Is Arguing About a Rate Rise, and a Shipping Lane Is Casting the Deciding Vote
Governor Christopher Waller said he is inclined to hold in September, and market odds on a rise fell about twelve points to 54.6 percent. With rates at 3.50 to 3.75 percent, the swing variable is how fast energy supply chains normalise.
Sep 4, 2026
Lifestyle
More Companies Ordered People Back to the Office This Year, and the Best Studies Still Do Not Support It
A controlled trial found two days at home produced no measurable productivity loss and cut resignations by a third. A study of large listed firms found return to office mandates did not improve company value. Mandates increased anyway.
Aug 22, 2026
Sports
There Is a Three Week Bicycle Race Going On and This Desk Has Never Once Mentioned It
The Vuelta a Espana runs from 22 August to 13 September, 21 stages and 3,310 kilometres from Monaco to Granada. If you have never followed a grand tour, the thing to understand is that it is not really a race. It is twenty one of them.
Sep 2, 2026
