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Bleisure travel, or combining business travel with leisure time, is becoming increasingly popular, with almost half of all business travellers now extending trips by a few days. However, it is not without its challenges. For more news and coverage, please visit Safe Travels Magazine.

Feature: Brandon Thompson at Drum Cussac – Five Key Business Challenges of Bleisure Travel

BethOctober 18, 2018

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The latest aid worker news from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: Global register set up to keep criminals out of aid sector

News TeamOctober 17, 2018

The UK is to help launch a global register of dangerous criminals with the aim of preventing them finding their way into the aid sector, in the wake of the aid ...

The latest advice coverage from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: How to Travel Like Your Private Jet Is in the Shop

News TeamOctober 15, 2018

Welcome back to Luxury Rules, a life and style column for people of taste who are on a budget. Today, our resident class act, Dodai Stewart, advises you on taking to the sky stylishly, even if you've spent basically all your money on your plane ticke...

The latest news on journalists and journalism from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: Being Killed for Their Work a Growing Risk for Journalists

News TeamOctober 15, 2018

Journalists are familiar with the risks of reporting from war-torn lands, but the recent death or disappearance of three people in Turkey, Bulgaria and Mexico i...

The latest news on the World Cup from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: How translation apps iron out embarrassing gaffes

News TeamOctober 15, 2018

Translation apps are getting better, but they're still not perfect, particularly for minority languages. Can artificial intelligence and deep neural networks he...

The latest advice coverage from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: How to find out if you’re one of the 29 million Facebook hacking victims

News TeamOctober 15, 2018

Around 30 million people had their Facebook accounts compromised by hackers and their data potentially stolen last month, the company announced on Friday.... Read the full article at the publisher's site: https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-state...

The latest news on politics from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: Saudi Economic Summit Suffers Exodus Of Guests After Journalist’s Disappearance

News TeamOctober 15, 2018

At this time last year Riyadh was gearing up to host a raft of leading figures from the world of business and banking at its inaugural Future Investment Initiat...

The latest news on accommodation from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: Report advises cracking down on ‘Maverick’ business travel spenders

News TeamOctober 15, 2018

Air, hotel, and rental car bookings represent only 60 to 70 per cent of total business travel expenses, and companies need to exert greater control over employe...

The latest news on politics from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: Interpol President Resigns; Detained In China Over Bribery Charges

News TeamOctober 9, 2018

Interpol President Meng Hongwei has resigned, after being detained by Chinese authorities who accuse him of corruption. The shocking turnabout comes days after Meng's wife said the career police officer had disappeared; one week ago, he left France t...

The latest news on al Qaeda from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: Islamist militants adapted after losses: U.S. State Dept.

News TeamSeptember 21, 2018

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department warned on Wednesday that Islamic State, al Qaeda and its affiliates have adapted by dispersing and becoming less vul...

Quick Read: 35% of Passengers Admit They’d Try to Grab Their Suitcases During an Emergency Evacuation

News TeamSeptember 17, 2018

This is something to talk to clients about when running through travel risk management plans. In the event of an emergency, airplane passengers are expected...

The latest news from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: How can companies help female business travellers stay safe on the road?

News TeamSeptember 13, 2018

During a routine ride to catch a flight, Jen Ruiz, a lawyer and travel blogger, experienced one of the occasional drawbacks to travelling solo as a woman. On the side of a highway, with no way out, Ruiz played along so that she could get to her dest...

The latest news from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: US aims to punish UN peacekeepers responsible for abuses

News TeamSeptember 13, 2018

The United States is pushing the Security Council to toughen UN action against peacekeepers who abuse or fail to protect civilians, US Ambassador Nikki Haley sa...

The latest news from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: Those airport security bins carry more germs than the toilets, scientists say

News TeamSeptember 5, 2018

Next time you go through airport security, it might be worth washing your hands afterward. According to the results of a new study published by Finnish and Brit...

The latest news from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: Syphilis: Rates of the sexually transmitted disease on the rise

News TeamSeptember 5, 2018

Berlin today, New York or Bangkok tomorrow and a different bedmate at each stop over. And with that, the chance of getting infected with syphilis also increases.... Read the full article at the publisher's site: https://www.dw.com/en/syphilis-rates-...

The latest news on data security from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: Israeli general’s text messages misfired to old number

News TeamSeptember 5, 2018

JERUSALEM — An Israeli businessman on Monday said he received calls and messages from senior Israeli and foreign military officials after he was assigned the fo...

The latest news on travelling while pregnant from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: Zika: one in seven babies with mothers exposed to virus developed issues

News TeamSeptember 4, 2018

As many as one in seven infants whose mothers were exposed to the Zika virus during pregnancy later developed health problems, according to a new study.... Rea...

The latest advice coverage from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: 9 Tips You Can’t Afford to Miss from a CEO who Survived a Ransomware Attack

News TeamSeptember 4, 2018

Imagine this: you’ve just built a state-of-the-art system for your business to store all of its records and customer data. It’s working seamlessly and allowing your team to run efficiently, while seemingly keeping all of your information secure. The...

The latest terrorism news from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: Terrorist attacks are quietly declining around the world

News TeamSeptember 4, 2018

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The latest news on road safety from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: Warning after baby died after being left in car seat for almost 15 hours

News TeamAugust 31, 2018

Parents are being warned not to leave young babies in car seats for more than 30 minutes, following the tragic death of a 10-week-old tot from Wigan who was lef...

Quick Read: 7 affordable ways to secure your home from thieves

News TeamAugust 29, 2018

Depending on where you live your exposure to robberies will vary greatly. With continued cuts to the police force, it may come as no surprise that robbery offences were up by 29% across the UK in 2017.... Read the full article at the publisher's sit...

The latest news from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: Flight times extended by major airlines to avoid payouts, report claims

News TeamAugust 28, 2018

Plane journeys are taking longer than a decade ago, according to a report that claims the change is down to airlines “padding” their schedules to create the imp...