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15 Reasons You Need To Visit Alexandria, Egypt.
Alexandria is one of Egypt’s greatest hidden treasures, a cosmopolitan city with a Mediterranean ambiance and a legendary history largely forgotten, Alexandria is just waiting for travellers to rediscover it’s faded charm, and here are the top 10 reasons why you should add it to your Egypt itinerary.
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Why Airlines Keep Getting Away With Ignoring Passenger Rights — And Why It Needs To Stop
Passenger rights are meaningless if airlines can ignore them without consequence. This editorial examines why travellers still have to fight for the protections they are already entitled to under UK261 and EU261, why weak enforcement has allowed poor practice to continue for years, and why both regulators and passengers must do more to hold airlines…
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Gap Years, Overtourism, And How Travel Is Ruining The Destinations We Love.
Travel in general is a very positive thing, both for the traveller and for the destinations they visit, but what happens when the sheer level of tourism threatens the very places travellers love? What happens when overtourism becomes a burden to a destination? And what can travellers do to help solve the problem of overtourism?
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My Growing Frustration And Anger With Egyptian Tourism.
I am growing increasingly frustrated with Egypt as a country, with illegal buildings encroaching onto the Giza plateau and other hitorical and cultural sites, and think that if it is not careful, it will not only destroy its own tourism industry but more importantly lose some of history’s greatest treasures forever.
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A Gap Year In Space: The Next Frontier Of Space Travel.
Space tourism is becoming an increasing reality, and it won’t be too long before taking a gap year into space may become not just possible, but actually feasible. Until then, the spirit and determination of explorers and travellers will be needed to forge ahead into the next frontier of space travel.
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Is It Safe To Travel To Egypt?
Is it safe to travel to Egypt? A decade of media scaremongering, terror attacks, political unrest, violent protests, constant warnings about safety and hassle and government advice advising against travel have left many travellers thinking is it safe to travel to Egypt at all. But is this really accurate? Is Egypt really too dangerous to…
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How Travel Styles Can Change. And How That Is Okay.
For any backpacker who has travelled for any length of time they may have noticed that the way they travel changed over time. I travelled the world throughout my twenties, then my thirties, and had an amazing time doing it. But as I approach travelling the world in my forties I am starting to reflect…
