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  • Adventure Travel News
    What Visitors to Jamaica Need to Know About the Gun Violence

    Jamaica’s officials declared a state of emergency last Thursday following a spate of violent crime and killings. As military operations are underway to curb the violence, visitors are faced with questions around whether Jamaica is safe to visit at this time and how drastic the situation really is. Here is what visitors to Jamaica need to […]

  • Adventure Travel News
    Travelers to Madagascar During Plague Warned to Take Necessary Precautions

    Health officials in Madagascar are trying to control the spread of a deadlier than usual plague outbreak, described as the worst in 50 years largely concentrated in Madagascar’s two largest cities of Antananarivo and Toamasina. Read on for the main facts that travelers to Madagascar during plague season need to know. Photo by: Leonora Enkling Travelers to Madagascar during […]

  • Adventure Travel News
    Millennials are Shaping the Travel Industry – For the Better

    Photo by: rawpixel.com In recent years, the millennial generation (defined as those born roughly between 1982 and 2002) has been blamed for killing a number of industries in cold blood. Scarred by the Great Recession of the late 2000s and early 2010s, Generation Y’s spending habits are quite different than those of previous generations. As a result, those murderous […]

  • Informed Traveler
    How Millennials Travel Differently

    Ah, don’t you just love millennials? These youngsters born between about 1980 and the early 2000s are a generation taking the world by storm. According to United Nations estimates some 200 million of them hit the road each year and you can find them the world over from famous tourist destinations to off-the-beaten path hidden locales. Although they’re […]

  • Adventure Travel News
    2015 Adventure Travel News Highlights

    It’s been a big year in adventure travel and extreme sports, and as 2015 draws to a close we look back on some of the big events that have shaped the year that was, for many intrepid travelers and adventurous souls. Our year in review includes both good and bad news events, natural wonders and natural disasters, […]

  • Adventure Travel Destinations
    Tamilnadu Run About to Kick off in Chennai

    Just a few hours till the world famous Rickshaw Challenge kicks off again, one proclaimed as one of the world’s last 10 real adventures among diving between tectonic plates in Iceland and rowing across Siberia’s lake Baikal. This time, the challenge will start in Chennai in Tamil Nadu on India’s east coast and then go […]

  • Adventure Travel News
    Freaky Incidents on Suspension Bridges This Month

    There have been two freaky incidents on suspension bridges this month; one in New Zealand, the other in China. The news comes just a few days after we published an article on scary suspension bridges you DO want to cross, and these two hair-raising incidents are a reminder of just how frightening suspension bridges can be! Nevertheless, while most […]

  • Adventure Travel News
    Indonesia Accepts Foreign Help Fighting the Haze

    The tropical beach paradise Indonesia is plagued by huge forest fires that cover not only Indonesia itself but the whole region in a thick haze. After President Joko Widodo has refused international help for a long time, finally Indonesia accepts foreign help fighting the haze. Singapore will provide Indonesia with equipment, personnel and satellite pictures. […]

  • Adventure Travel in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Malawi Introducing Visa Fee

    Malawi, already struggling getting its piece out of the tourism cake in competition with neighboring Zambia and Tanzania, has received a further blow to its tourism industry. From October 1st, a significant $75 visa fee has been introduced. It is assumed, that this rather high fee will keep tourists from visiting Malawi, especially with neighboring Zambia offering […]