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Intrepid Launches ‘Short Breaks’ for Time-Strapped Travelers
Intrepid Travel has unveiled its new ‘Short Breaks’ range, featuring 4–6-day adventures for time-pressed travelers seeking immersive travel experiences. The range includes 10 brand-new itineraries across Latin America and Europe and 45 refreshed...

Meet The Traverse City Nonprofit Working To Drive Humanitarian Causes In Kenya
It started during the pandemic, when local travel writer Kim Schneider was pining for far-flung adventures that were all but impossible at the time. It’s evolved into a nonprofit that works to make life-changing impacts abroad, and to send people...
These 'Short Break' Curated Getaways Let You See the World on Limited Vacation Time
Casper te Riele/Getty Images The view of Volcano Fuego from hikers on Acatenango Volcano in Guatemala. Forget slow travel, it’s time for speedy travel. Intrepid Travel, a tour operator based in Australia, just launched a series of jam-packed...
Intrepid Travel Launches ‘Short Breaks’ Collection
Intrepid Travel has launched “Short Breaks,” a new collection of four- to six-day itineraries, created with North American travelers in mind. One of the travel trends to come out of summer 2025 was the rise in shorter stays. Based on Intrepid’s...

Canada Updated Travel Advisory for Citizens
Canada has updated its travel guidelines asking citizens not to travel countries like Russian, North Korea, Ukraine, Mali, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Mali, Haiti, Sudan, Central African Republic, Burkina Faso, Yemen, Niger, Somalia, South, Sudan,...

Tourism and Sustainable Transformation: Centering Indigenous Voices in Tourism Development
By Lucas Kasosi (Maasai, CS Fellow) On September 27, the world celebrates World Tourism Day, an occasion established by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) to reflect on tourism’s impact on society, culture, politics, and the...

Suitcase souls: how running away led me home
Let’s set the scene: You’re staring at your laptop, Zoom-fatigued, while your potted plant judges you for re-wearing sweatpants again. The walls of your apartment—or cubicle, or hometown—feel like they’re closing in, pixel by pixel. Enter: The...

Family of four traveling the world on a $40-a-day budget
The Rowe family on their travels. (Ruth Rowe via SWNS) By Talker By Ed Chatterton and Julia Baker A couple "sold everything" they owned before quitting the UK to travel the world with their children, while living out of two suitcases on a budget...

Family sell everything to travel the world with two suitcases living off £30-a-day
A couple have 'sold everything' they owned to embark on a global adventure with their children, living out of two suitcases and surviving on a daily budget of just £30. Ruth Rowe, 34, and her husband Steven, 35, purchased a one-way ticket to Sri...

Guatemalan Children in South Texas: Caught in the Crossfire of US Immigration Policy
After returning to office, President Donald Trump swiftly revived immigration tactics that defined his first term—most notably, fast-track deportations of unaccompanied children. Framed as a deterrent to migration from Central America, the policy...

Guatemalan man sentenced in Great Falls for illegal reentry
GREAT FALLS, Mont. – A Guatemalan man was sentenced to time-served for illegal reentry and was remanded to U.S. Border Patrol, according to a release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Montana. On August 15, 2025, a Hill County Sheriff’s...

World Tourism Day special: Conscious itineraries and eco-friendly escapes are redefining how India travels
The crackle of a bonfire in a Himachali village, the quiet rhythm of a canoe gliding down Kerala’s backwaters, the stillness of a starlit sky in Chopta, the new age of travel in India is less about ticking off destinations and more about slowing...

Judge continues to block Trump administration from deporting Honduran, Guatemalan minors
A federal judge in Arizona has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from immediately deporting dozens of Guatemalan and Honduran children who came into the U.S. alone. U.S. District Judge Rosemary Márquez granted a preliminary injunction,...

Arizona judge blocks Trump administration from deporting Guatemalan, Honduran children
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A federal judge in Arizona on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from immediately deporting dozens of Guatemalan and Honduran children who came to the U.S. alone. U.S. District Judge Rosemary...

Arizona judge blocks Trump admin from deporting migrant Guatemalan, Honduran children
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A federal judge in Arizona on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from immediately deporting dozens of Guatemalan and Honduran children who came to the U.S. alone. U.S. District Judge Rosemary...

Journalist on 15 years of solo female travelling adventures
Former Fenland Citizen reporter Lucy Ruthnum has been travelling the world for 15 years, visiting nearly 60 countries. Here, she talks us through her inspirational adventures… I still remember the moment I boarded the plane. Fifteen years ago, I...

Arizona judge blocks Trump administration from deporting migrant Guatemalan and Honduran children
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A federal judge in Arizona on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from immediately deporting… TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A federal judge in Arizona on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald...

Greetings from Guatemala, where one person's trash becomes another's colorful art
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. I was taking my 12-year-old daughter on her first-ever trip overseas, to Antigua, Guatemala. International travel...

Guatemala’s community journalists silenced as promises of change go unfulfilled
By Silvia Higuera September 17, 2025 Indigenous peoples’ support for the election of Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo in 2023 and through his inauguration in January 2024 was vital in preventing efforts to block him from taking office. As a...

WTE Miami 2025 unites travel industry for growth, connections
Hosted by Miami International Airport and the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB), WTE Miami 2025 brought together nearly 300 exhibitors from four continents and more than 3,000 travel professionals — including over 100 hosted...