Sri Lanka bets on nomads—without betting the country

PLUS: The Uber x Habitas play for short-stay apartments

NOMAD VISAS

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka’s nomad visa is an economic repair tool

After years of tourism volatility, Sri Lanka is experimenting with nomads as a low-impact source of foreign income: longer stays, external salaries, fewer boom-bust effects. In other words, another country acts on what we’ve been saying about nomads all along.

Dianne Apen-Sadler for Euronews

NOMAD HOUSING

🏡 The Uber x Habitas play for short-stay apartments

Modular, flexible, and optimised for people who don’t organise life around permanence—two influential founders want housing that works more like a product than a place. Is this co-living, minus the utopian baggage?

Patrick Sisson for MSN

TRAVEL TIPS

🍊 The Italian city where life is sweetest in winter

In Turin, winter sharpens everyday pleasures. Chocolate is taken more seriously than coffee, cafés double as living rooms, and the presence of the Alps frames daily life. The season isn’t a pause here; it’s when the city shows its hand.

Zsofia Safar for BBC Travel

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