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As coronavirus spreads across the globe, travellers need to be smart about where they go, how they travel and what precautions they take. A travel expert offers a few tips.
For any physical inconvenience or emotional distress caused by a tour operator, there is a legal precedent for claiming compensation. But, as with all contracts, you need to read the fine print.
Every business should go to great lengths to protect its personnel with a robust travel security program.
A cruise can be a fantastic holiday. But it certainly won't be if you end up confined to the bathroom with gastro.
Your children can have a rich experience, seeing different parts of the world and understanding other cultures. And there are several things you can do to support their learning.
Where once we subjected friends to post-holiday slideshows, now we share travel selfies live with a remote audience. This study teased out the tension between snapping and experiencing the trip.
People tend to pay attention when things get personal, so you need to know how climate change is damaging things in your life.
Not so long ago, people had no idea what would happen to them – and what they would see – once they ascended into the clouds.
A data scholar explains why playing at home doesn't provide the boost that it once did.
United Airlines faced a public relations nightmare when they dragged a man off a flight in 2017 – until the blame shifted back to the victim.
The day and a half it takes to get from New York to Singapore and back offers plenty of time to ponder the economics of ultra-long-haul flights – and wonder why we'd want to make it any longer.
Your next flight could be the single biggest contribution to global warming you make all year. Experts imagine how we might travel in future, without the 'flygskam'.
Hajj pilgrims looking online for advice about their upcoming pilgrimage to Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, may not find TripAdvisor so useful.
Turning from the conflict of airport expansions to a vision of a low-carbon transport system.
Washing hands and coughing into your elbow can help limit the spread of infectious diseases on planes and around the globe. So why don't passengers read about this in their inflight magazines?
Deportees and other migrants return home wealthier, more educated and with more work experience than people who never left. This 'brain gain' benefits the whole community, financially and politically.
Universities play a significant role in the high and rising air travel footprint – and they need to do more about it.
Workers with long commutes are more likely to become sick. They also receive less net income (after deducting travel costs) and less leisure time.
Travel is commonly perceived as "the" major factor affecting a team's performance.
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Jay L. Zagorsky is a Friend of The Conversation.Senior Lecturer, Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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David Beirman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer, Tourism, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, University of Western Australia
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Professor of Sustainable Tourism and Director, Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University
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Faculty of Law, University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, Singapore Institute of Technology
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Freya Higgins-Desbiolles is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management, University of South Australia
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Professor of Operations Management, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Deputy Dean (Business School), King's College London
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Visiting Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
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Emeritus Professor & UTS innovation adviser, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, UNSW
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Professor, School of BioSciences and Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne
