Chris Wotton

Booking.com Group Product Manager Sina Mirgun explains how personalising the booking experience – depending on the type of trip a traveller is planning – is helping to showcase properties and increase bookings.

The Latvian capital is a young-feeling city with a wealth of culture to explore. It’s a must-visit for architecture buffs, famed as it is for its numerous photogenic Art Nouveau buildings. This makes the city’s streets perfect for casual, slow-paced and self-guided walking tours. Riga’s lively bar and restaurant scene in its UNESCO-recognised old centre is also worth checking out, and for beach lovers there’s a vast expanse of stunning coast within easy reach of the city.

Lisbon has an overwhelming historical and cultural vibe to it, and is famed for its charmingly winding, hilly, cobbled streets lined with pastel-toned houses. But the Portuguese capital is also a modern, bustling and compact city – and no matter whether you’re here strictly for a city break or you want to hit the beach, there’s something for you.

It’s banned on Bangkok’s subway and in many hotels, such is the offensiveness of its odour. But durian is also a fruit beloved across Thailand – as well as elsewhere across Southeast Asia and beyond – for its rich, creamy, custard-like texture. Now the Thai government is taking things to the next level, with a plan to send the fruit all the way up into space.

No matter how glamorous it might look, endless work travel can prove a drag. But these VIP-worthy flight perks will make your next business trip worthwhile.

Need to unwind? Here's the Elite+ pick of three of the best grooming, wellness and rejuvenation experiences for the modern man in Bangkok.

The new millennial-geared hotel brand poised to shake up the industry in Southeast Asia.

Give your business and personal lives a boost with these must-have apps that promise productivity and more.

The extravagant new Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Phantom has been released to the Thai automobile market.

The ultra-fast internet tech behind voice-controlled digital assistants, robot-operated restaurants, and driverless cars - 5G and eSIM capability is at the heart of the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence of the future.

Whereas once the thought of robots playing a role in everyday life was consigned to science fiction, voice-activated digital personal assistants like Siri have long since become indispensable in helping us manage busy schedules and our insatiable hunger for information and entertainment.
We fill our homes with Amazon’s Alexa devices; we can switch on the lights and air-conditioning, and open the blinds from our mobile phone, whether we’re in the next room, at the end of the street, or on anot...

As it partners with Seattle's Synesso, Bangkok-based CoffeeWORKS' founders talk espressos, economic crises, and regulatory hurdles.

Fewer Thais feel vacation-deprived than other countries, but are more likely to let work pressure spoil their holiday plans, according to the 2017 Vacation Deprivation Study conducted by travel giant Expedia.

Beyond the temples of Angkor Wat, Siem Reap is gaining a reputation for its great cafés and coffee shops - these are some of our favourites.

Officials dismiss European warnings, as Singapore sees sharp increase in new cases