Travel & Leisure
-
Airfare is up 15%, gas is past $4, and SAP Concur data shows business travel is quietly breaking
Here’s the thing about the gas crisis nobody is talking about: it’s not making companies travel less, it’s making them pay more to do less. According to Q1 2026 numbers from SAP Concur, the platform that processes travel and expense data for millions of business travelers worldwide, fuel transaction costs jumped 14% in a single…
-
It’s always happy hour at the airport bar, but Ryanair’s CEO is calling for a crackdown on 6am tipples: ‘Who needs to be drinking beer at that time?’
Airports are the place where outside rules suddenly cease to exist. Beyondthe security gates and ID checkpoints, inhibitions loosen and time flows differently. Part of this is by design, from long corridors to the conspicuous absence of clocks, and the hour of the day doesn’t seem as important once inside the terminal. And if it…
-
War in Iran has Croatia’s tourist hotspot wondering: will Dubrovnik host another 4 million visitors in 2026?
Summer is still a few months away, but the streets of Croatia’s old town of Dubrovnik are already teeming with tourists from all over the world. It’s usually a sign of a strong season ahead, but this year uncertainty hangs in the air. Global instability triggered by the Iran war and surging fuel prices have…
-
King Charles’ star-studded trip to New York includes Anna Wintour, Lionel Richie and a Harlem student saying ‘I like your hair’
King Charles III and Queen Camilla visited the site of the Sept. 11 attacks, met with schoolchildren and business titans and socialized with celebrities during a busy swing through New York City on Wednesday — the first visit to the city by a reigning British monarch in 16 years. Charles laid flowers at the National…
-
The ‘Tuscan Mom’ aesthetic is taking over TikTok as Gen Z glamorize McMansions and reject millennial gray
Gen Z loves to love what millennials hate. Now, they’re rejecting the millennial gray aesthetic and reinvigorating a classic early 2000s vibe: The Tuscan Mom. The resurgence has recently exploded across TikTok, racking up millions of views as the young professional generation romanticizes oversized, ornately decorated homes that epitomized early-2000s American aspirational living in suburban…