The Great Rebalancing: Travel spending shifts back to experiences over things. Report

  The desire to travel is strong, and consumer and commercial demand for air travel, measured by flight bookings, accelerated meaningfully in early 2022. Could this be the start of travel’s long-awaited recovery? Cruises, buses and trains see strong spending rebound in 2022 as Covid restrictions loosen. Mastercard Economics Institute: Pent-up demand drives global leisure … Read more

The recovery begins. Or so we hope: The most popular art museums in the world

The Art Newspaper published Visitor Figures 2021: the 100 most popular art museums in the world. Overall, the number of people visiting museums grew, with the top 100 cultural institutions in the world having a combined total of 71 million museum visitors compared with 54 million in 2020. “While attendance figures still have some way … Read more

Viva Las Vegas: Five of Sin City’s best buildings

  Affectionately known as the “Entertainment Capital of the World”, Las Vegas has come a long way since its founding in 1905, becoming one of the world’s most visited tourist destinations with its gambling notoriety at the heart of it. Naturally, being a man-made city, Vegas has some impressive buildings to look out for. Here … Read more