Puneet Chhatwal, Managing Director & CEO of Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL) discusses its plans to expand its flagship Taj Hotels in the UAE, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia as the hotel group taps into the growing GCC-India corridor. He talked about the upcoming opening of the first Taj in Europe in Frankfurt, with Switzerland also in the works.
Aj_watt | E+ | Getty Images Travelers who were briefly stranded abroad after the U.S. operation to extract Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro got a hard lesson in the limitations of travel insurance. Travel insurance policies offer a financial backstop to buyers for various unforeseen snafus, like having to pay for medical care abroad or for […]
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Monica Virga, a 38-year-old entrepreneur based in Norway, found it unsettling to go from a period of working 20 hours a day to almost zero while on holiday, she said. “I would… end up popping into my emails again and checking up on things with work that I didn’t need to be in,” she said. […]
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Passengers wait at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport as all flights are cancelled following US military action in Venezuela, on January 3, 2026, in Carolina, Puerto Rico. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo | Afp | Getty Images United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and other carriers began restoring flights to Puerto Rico and other parts of the […]
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