The Dispatch
Dubai at Forty-Four Degrees: Off Season, On Form
The car park sits empty at nine in the evening, which in June means the heat has not yet broken —...
The Puglia Argument I Lost
The booking was done. Six tickets to Denpasar, the same villa in Seminyak we’d taken in 2023...
The World Sounds Different When the Rain Begins
The first satisfying rain of the monsoon arrived in Kerala last week, and if you were anywhere...
The Trip I Almost Cancelled — And the Silence I Brought Home
Almost didn’t go. That should be said clearly, before anything else, because everything that...
Your Next Holiday Was Chosen by Someone Else
The most expensive holiday you will take this summer is the one you did not choose. You chose the...
The Summer My Father Finally Sat Still
My father has not taken a vacation since 1996, and that one was an accident. A cancelled flight in...
Takeoff
The Question Abu Dhabi Decided to Answer
The mental map most readers carry of the UAE was last updated somewhere around 2019. Dubai is the...
Six Destinations Having Their Best Summer in Years
Summer 2026 is a correction. World Travel Magazine reads the six strongest signals. After two...
Six Signals Reshaping Luxury Travel This Summer
Taj Paro Resort & Spa opened in December. &Beyond Punakha River Lodge launched a wellness...
AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST
Seasonal Drift
La Dolce Vita Begins at Three
The boat from Como takes forty minutes. Then a gate. Then a gravel path. Then nothing. Passalacqua...
Where Nothing Happens, and Everything Shifts
We went looking for places that offer nothing. No programme. No agenda. No noise. What we found...
Before the Monsoon: Five Places, Five Restlessnesses
There is a smell that has no English word. It lives in Hindi as something closer to memory than...
Letters from Elsewhere
Three Days on the Wrong Island
I am the kind of woman who prints the ferry tickets. Who screenshots the screenshots. I know the...
The Sound the Monsoon Makes When It Arrives
A World Travel Magazine monsoon series. Petrichor is not one smell. It is a conspiracy between...
The Mango Hours: May and the Luxury of Scarcity
In a Bandra apartment in the third week of May, a woman named Rekha Desai is doing what her mother...
The Whisper Network
The Summer Black Book: Mediterranean Edition & Beyond
The allocations below aren’t on any website. Most won’t survive June. A few are...
Seven Objects That Earn Their Place in the Summer Suitcase
Packing, for the traveller who has moved past brand recognition into material intelligence, is an...
Three Suites That Will Change How You See
The most interesting argument in luxury hospitality right now isn’t about amenity or access....
Summer Black Book: 12 Private-Access Travel Ideas Advisors Are Quietly Discussing Now
The best summer allocations don’t expire — they get quietly redirected. Right now, a handful...