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SINGAPORE – My name is Clara and I am a travel addict. Like every addiction, it crept up on me. I cover travel, so it was normal to look up flight deals or browse travel blogs in the middle of the work day. I sought the rush of booking plane tickets and would fritter away precious vacation time fantasising about […]
Read moreCooped-up travellers who need their cultural fix can go anywhere in the world now on artsy virtual tours. But when the planet emerges from lockdown, I wonder if we will still trade the confines of our four walls for constrictive or crowded museums? The pandemic will change the way people travel. Rather than rubbing shoulders with potentially asymptomatic museumgoers, imagine […]
Read moreSINGAPORE – During a virtual travel summit last Wednesday, those logging in from Singapore like me sipped hand-delivered cocktails at home while journeying around the world in six hours. The Web In Travel (Wit) event was a pandemic-forged experiment that united a thousand travel professionals near and far, including Hong Kong, Riyadh and Seattle. The live event, a semblance of […]
Read moreCooped-up travellers who need their cultural fix can go anywhere in the world now on artsy virtual tours. But when the planet emerges from lockdown, I wonder if we will still trade the confines of our four walls for constrictive or crowded museums? The pandemic will change the way people travel. Rather than rubbing shoulders with potentially asymptomatic museumgoers, imagine […]
Read moreMarvel at Sweden’s Northern Lights Scandinavian temperatures to watch the Northern Lights online. Lights Over Lapland, a travel company that guides tourists through Abisko National Park in Sweden, has posted time lapses of the aurora borealis on its website. Stunning streaks of bright green light dance in the video, a mesmerising sight from afar. Go to: lightsoverlapland.com/virtual-aurora-tours Climb the Great […]
Read moreThe pandemic has closed holy sites across the globe, but virtual reality is providing worshipers a digital window into ceremonies during touchstone holidays. By Debra Kamin For nearly two years, Eilat Lieber, director and chief curator of the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem’s Old City, has been excited for this April, when Passover, Easter and Ramadan — touchstone holidays […]
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