Cocktail Hour Series Episode 8 – LIVE from Sri Lanka

Diwali 2026 falls on Sunday 8 November. Five advisors on where their best clients are spending the festive week, what they booked, and why it was done in July.

From a Dubai vantage point, the Editor-in-Chief on how Indian and Southeast Asian travellers quietly became the most fluent guests in the room.

Eleven resorts open, a dozen more coming. World Travel Magazine’s honest audit of Saudi’s Red Sea: what’s open, what’s still rendering, and exactly when to go.

Somewhere in Southeast Asia right now, a shoreline is having the conversation Phuket had thirty years ago. Christine Lee went to Sumba’s west coast to listen.