Travel & Tourism

The problem is not visitor numbers alone. It is their concentration into the same few weeks and the same few streets.

It is entirely learnable, and it has almost nothing to do with buying better luggage.

Organising a trip around regional cuisine produces a better route than organising it around monuments.

A town with nothing to see removes the obligation to see things — which is when travel gets interesting.

Almost every hill station photographs well in April. Far fewer survive a second visit.

It is neither as transformative nor as frightening as the internet suggests. Here is what it actually involves.

On certain routes, the journey stops being transport. These are the ones worth booking for the ride alone.

The term has been thoroughly marketed. What it actually requires is far more ordinary than the branding suggests.

Most itineraries avoid the rain entirely. In several regions, it is the season that shows the place at its best.

The itinerary that covers six cities in nine days rarely produces a memory of any of them. Staying put changes what you see.