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Walking with spirits in Cambodia’s sacred forests

Former loggers and poachers have embraced ancient traditions to promote and protect the Cardamom Mountains’ ever-threatened natural wonders I’m two hours downriver from the Chi Phat community ecotourism camp, in the Koh Kong region of Cambodia, when my phone signal fizzles out completely. It’s dawn and we’re chugging through the snaking Preak Piphot River towards the starting point of a 9-mile (15km) overnight trek into the country’s sacred, spirit-filled Cardamom mountain range. The region, a six-hour bus ride west of the capital Phnom Penh, recently made global news for being home to a raft

Albania’s restored stone houses throw open the doors to visitors

A project to convert the country’s traditional kulla houses into guesthouses offers a true flavour of ancient hospitality in a part of the country almost untouched by tourism Sunlight pours through a tiny stone window, causing the wooden floorboards to creak as they warm up. The sound of sheep’s bells filters in from a passing flock. The scent of baking bread mingles with smoke from the previous evening’s fire. I wake up feeling I’ve been transported back to another time – but in reality I’m in modern-day Albania. I’m staying in a kulla, one of the traditional stone tower houses that are found

MakeMyTrip Buys Into Daily Commutes With Quick Ride Stake

As its air business softens, MakeMyTrip is pushing harder into everything else. Quick Ride gives it a product people use on a random Thursday, not just before a holiday. The test is whether those commuters become MakeMyTrip travelers.

Wynn Holds UAE Casino Date but Weighs How to Open Amid War

Wynn is holding to its September 2027 date for the UAE’s first casino resort but it will now decide in February what form the opening takes. The U.S.-Iran war means its first customers may travel from down the road in Dubai and elsewhere in the UAE, rather than being the international guests it primarily wants.

How to Plan Your Day at Skift Aviation Forum 2026

Jet fuel above $4 a gallon has reset the math on every airline plan for 2027. Next week, the executives making those calls spend a full day at the TWA Hotel at JFK. Here is how to spend yours, by role.

Tourism Heads to COP31 Wanting Results, Not More Pledges

Five years after the Glasgow Declaration, tourism has plenty of climate commitments but little shared proof of what they’ve achieved. The industry is still split on whether better measurement or faster action should come first.

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Qatar’s Tourism Recovery is Coming by Road, Not Air

Qatar’s visitor numbers are recovering on road traffic across the Saudi border, while air arrivals keep falling. Drive-in visitors tend to make shorter trips, which limits how much they can do for hotels.

‘Instead of scuba diving on shrinking reefs, we helped regrow them’: readers’ best conservation tourism experiences

From a sea turtle rescue centre in Italy to rewilding in the Scottish Highlands, here are some of your favourite trips that give a little back The Ropes of Hope works for coral reef restoration in the Mafia Island marine park, off Tanzania. Instead of scuba diving to see shrinking reefs, we got involved with a project regrowing them. It’s the brainchild of Jean de Villiers, a South African molecular biologist who talked my teenagers through the underwater coral gene bank research and community involvement. Our ocean-view tree house accommodation didn’t hurt, with hot chocolate and cake hoisted

Bomb Hoaxes Test Europe’s Airlines as Geopolitical Pressures Mount

None of this week’s threats has proved real, but each one still cost a diversion, a search and a rebuilt schedule. Whoever sent them, the hoaxes have added to a list of disruptions, from conflict-driven fuel costs to closed airspace, that is making routine flying in Europe ever more challenging.

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A local’s guide to Belgrade: the best sights, restaurants and nightlife in a city in flux

A new optimism pervades the Serbian capital following the recent elections, making it a great time to visit its bars, clubs, markets and riverside hotspots There’s a celebratory mood in Belgrade, the Serbian capital. For almost two years protest has shaped everyday life as a student-led movement demanding accountability and an end to corruption gathered momentum after a concrete canopy at Novi Sad’s newly renovated railway station collapsed in November 2024, killing 16 people. Demonstrations grew into a nationwide challenge to the government and finally, last month the student-backed list won