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Out For Blood: Preventing Tick Bites

If your summer travel plans include playing or working outdoors, know how to recognize, avoid—and get rid of—these dangerous hitchhikers.

Published in Travel Health

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Selective Vaccinations: Staying Healthy Off the Beaten Path

By Daphne Hendsbee, Tullia Marcolongo

Which shots do you really need? It depends not only on where you're going, but also what you'll be doing there. Part two of a two-part series.

Published in Travel Health

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Want To Take A Gap Year? Read This First

By Emma Borg

A quick primer to planning your gap year.

Published in Editor's Desk

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How to Master Europe's Complex Travel Network By Searching Online

By Katherine Shanahan, Sponsor content

Don't let Europe's complex array of bus, rail and air travel networks and schedules leave you scratching your head.

Published in Budget Traveller

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Why I Travel: Wildlife Conservation in South Africa

By Chelsea Schuyler

Cathy Hue works crazy hours, lives in a little wooden shed and spends three out of four weeks in the bush. She wouldn't trade it for anything.

Published in Why we travel

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Students from Wabane District in Cameroon running to participate in workshops.

Why I Travel: To Support Menstruating Girls in Cameroon

By Irene Whittaker-Cumming

The start of menarche signals the exciting transition to womanhood. But for girls in Central Africa, it can also mark a new period of isolation and fear.

Published in Why we travel

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Vaccine Tips For Budget Travellers

By Daphne Hendsbee, Tullia Marcolongo

Travel vaccines can cost a bundle. Asking these questions could save you some money. Part one of a two-part series.

Published in Travel Health

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9 Travel Resolutions We Should All Make This Year

By Jessica Lockhart

Regardless of whether you’re studying, volunteering, working, or even just vacationing abroad, here are nine ethical travel practices that you should adopt this year.

Published in Editor's Desk

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Hitchhiker’s Guide to Getting a Ride

By Joe Aultman-Moore

Here are some tips to help you get out on the road.

Published in Budget Traveller

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Home Free: How to Become a Housesitter Abroad

By Christine Estima

Is there such thing as a free holiday? Maybe not, but housesitting comes pretty darn close.

Published in Budget Traveller

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Campesinas in Nicaragua face uncertainty as a consequence of the palm oil industry.

Palming Off the Problem

By Trina Moyles

For poor farmers in Nicaragua, palm plantations mean environmental destruction, chemical exposure—and a paycheque. Is there an alternative?

Published in Beyond the Guidebook

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In Case of Emergency

By Jessica Lockhart

Ask these questions before buying travel insurance.

Published in Travel Health

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