What’s really behind Thailand’s tourism crash?
PLUS: Where to stay in Africa right now
GEOPOLITICS
🇹🇭 What’s really behind Thailand’s tourism crash?
A collapse in arrival numbers and policy chaos at home are reshaping the kingdom’s post-pandemic trajectory. Can Thailand find its footing again in Asia’s travel boom?
Cal on YouTube
TRAVEL TIPS
🌍 Where to stay in Africa right now
The continent’s best hotels for 2025 pair luxury with local connection, blending epic landscapes, rooted design, and authentic hospitality.
Reader’s Choice Awards by Condé Nast Traveller
TRANSPORT
🚂 Why trains soothe the modern mind
In motion yet unhurried, train travel invites the rare luxury of looking out instead of down: a moving meditation for an age of acceleration.
Margarita Gokun Silver for Aeon
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NOMAD LIFESTYLE
💻 How a jungle experiment rewired remote work
A decade ago, two college grads set out to build a yoga retreat and accidentally launched the early nomad movement with a startup called Hacker Paradise.
Lauren Razavi for Global Natives
DIGITAL LIVING
📲 The last days of social media
As algorithms replace friends and feeds give way to AI, the social web is dying—and a new, more synthetic internet is taking its place.
James O'Sullivan for Noema Magazine
SEEN ON SOCIAL
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The Guess the Country link is not working. It leads back to the previous week.
It’s interesting after also the recent announcement about cracking down on visa run.
The DTV is becoming more interesting than ever I think!