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‘Bhai ye kya design kar diya hai’: Indian traveller says Delhi–Varanasi Vande Bharat Sleeper First AC's inside look ‘will blow your mind’; route, timings and launch date revealed

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How much of destination marketing budgets should go to AI visibility? - Skift Research

Destination marketing has traditionally focused on building awareness. But AI is changing how travelers discover places, and being a popular destination does not guarantee a place in AI recommendations. Should DMOs move some of their marketing budget towa

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At 64, retired Delhi judge Poonam A Bamba joined her 66-year-old husband on a trek she had never planned; over 10 days, she walked more than 65 km to Everest Base Camp without special training - The Times of India

Extraordinary stories are made with extraordinary efforts!

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Every winter since 1989, builders in Jukkasjarvi in Swedish Lapland have cut ice from the frozen Torne River to rebuild the Icehotel, where guests sleep on ice beds at temperatures below freezing - The Times of India

Have you wondered what it would be like to live in an igloo?

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A 16th-century Kashmiri poetess fell in love, but when Akbar sent her love into exile, her songs became Kashmir’s folklore, and a peak in Gurez Valley came to bear her name; meet Habba Khatoon, the 'Nightingale of Kashmir' - The Times of India

Kashmir and love stories are eternal!

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‘Bhai ye kya design kar diya hai’: Indian traveller says Delhi–Varanasi Vande Bharat Sleeper First AC's inside look ‘will blow your mind’; route, timings and launch date revealed - The Times of India

Soon overnight train journeys in India are going to be as luxury and comfortable as it gets thanks to Vande Bharat Sleeper variants.

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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How Travel Credit Cards Are Becoming Full-Trip Companions

Capital One Travel’s Sarah Moore on how personalization, experiences, and trust are reshaping travelers' relationship with credit cards.

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Skift Commerce Summit: Rethinking Hotel Distribution

Maybe we've been looking at the hotel distribution war all wrong, all along. For years, we at Skift have chronicled the battle between hotel brands and

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“India now has some of the best roads in the world”: Foreign traveller praises India’s road network after 2,500-km journey across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana and more

India’s development is increasingly visible in its expanding road network. It’s a transformation that stands out particularly to foreign visitors who compare the roads they see today with those they experienced during earlier visits.

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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India’s only confirmed active volcano rises from the Andaman Sea, surrounded by black lava slopes and deep-blue water; travellers can view the remote volcanic island by boat, but landing is restricted

Imagine sailing across the deep blue waters of the Andaman Sea, with the dark rugged slopes of a volcanic island rising in the distance. As your boat circles the coastline, you might be lucky enough to spot a plume of smoke rising from its crater, as the

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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One man collected it all: Inside Hyderabad’s Salar Jung Museum, one of India’s largest single-collector museums, including the Veiled Rebecca and mysterious musical clock

Imagine an art collection so precious and so rare that a museum can be built around it. Well, it happened with the massive art collection of Nawab Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, popularly known as Salar Jung III.

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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Anand Mahindra revisits Rishikesh memories, “I just hope that, amid all the changes, it holds on to its soul”; calls this restaurant ‘practically my canteen’ during filmmaking days

Recently, ace industrialist Anand Mahindra shared his old memories that brought Rishikesh in Uttrakhand into the spotlight for a more personal reason. In his #Sundaywanderer post on X on October 18, 2026, he revisited memories of his filmmaking days in th

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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A cyclone wiped out Dhanushkodi in 1964 destroying its railway line and homes; six decades later, visitors travel to the ghost town to see abandoned ruins where the Bay of Bengal meets the Indian Ocean

Among the world's ghost towns, Dhanushkodi holds a special place on that list. This is the ghost town where myths meet reality and the town's history remains intact in its ruins.

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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This ancient forest has trees that have survived for thousands of years; where visitors can walk among some of Earth's oldest living organisms and what makes these ecosystems so resilient

There are places where history is preserved in stone, and then there are places where history is still growing. High in the White Mountains of eastern California, on a landscape of pale limestone, exposed rock and seemingly endless sky, some of the world&

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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At 64, retired Delhi judge Poonam A Bamba joined her 66-year-old husband on a trek she had never planned; over 10 days, she walked more than 65 km to Everest Base Camp without special training

Extraordinary stories are made with extraordinary efforts! Proving age is just a number is Poona A Bamba, a 64-year-old retired Delhi judge, who joined her husband on an unplanned Everest Base camp trek recently.

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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Every winter since 1989, builders in Jukkasjarvi in Swedish Lapland have cut ice from the frozen Torne River to rebuild the Icehotel, where guests sleep on ice beds at temperatures below freezing

Have you wondered what it would be like to live in an igloo? Well this hotel in Sweden is not a traditional igloo but it is made entirely out of natural ice and you get to sleep on ice beds.

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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A 16th-century Kashmiri poetess fell in love, but when Akbar sent her love into exile, her songs became Kashmir’s folklore, and a peak in Gurez Valley came to bear her name; meet Habba Khatoon, the 'Nightingale of Kashmir'

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ram Kishore (@ramkishore.1)

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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‘Bhai ye kya design kar diya hai’: Indian traveller says Delhi–Varanasi Vande Bharat Sleeper First AC's inside look ‘will blow your mind’; route, timings and launch date revealed

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Akshay Malhotra (@journeyswithak)

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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At 64, retired Delhi judge Poonam A Bamba joined her 66-year-old husband on a trek she had never planned; over 10 days, she walked more than 65 km to Everest Base Camp without special training - The Times of India

Extraordinary stories are made with extraordinary efforts!

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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Every winter since 1989, builders in Jukkasjarvi in Swedish Lapland have cut ice from the frozen Torne River to rebuild the Icehotel, where guests sleep on ice beds at temperatures below freezing - The Times of India

Have you wondered what it would be like to live in an igloo?

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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A 16th-century Kashmiri poetess fell in love, but when Akbar sent her love into exile, her songs became Kashmir’s folklore, and a peak in Gurez Valley came to bear her name; meet Habba Khatoon, the 'Nightingale of Kashmir' - The Times of India

Kashmir and love stories are eternal!

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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‘Bhai ye kya design kar diya hai’: Indian traveller says Delhi–Varanasi Vande Bharat Sleeper First AC's inside look ‘will blow your mind’; route, timings and launch date revealed - The Times of India

Soon overnight train journeys in India are going to be as luxury and comfortable as it gets thanks to Vande Bharat Sleeper variants.

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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“India now has some of the best roads in the world”: Foreign traveller praises India’s road network after 2,500-km journey across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana and more

India’s development is increasingly visible in its expanding road network. It’s a transformation that stands out particularly to foreign visitors who compare the roads they see today with those they experienced during earlier visits.

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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India’s only confirmed active volcano rises from the Andaman Sea, surrounded by black lava slopes and deep-blue water; travellers can view the remote volcanic island by boat, but landing is restricted

Imagine sailing across the deep blue waters of the Andaman Sea, with the dark rugged slopes of a volcanic island rising in the distance. As your boat circles the coastline, you might be lucky enough to spot a plume of smoke rising from its crater, as the

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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One man collected it all: Inside Hyderabad’s Salar Jung Museum, one of India’s largest single-collector museums, including the Veiled Rebecca and mysterious musical clock

Imagine an art collection so precious and so rare that a museum can be built around it. Well, it happened with the massive art collection of Nawab Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, popularly known as Salar Jung III.

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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Anand Mahindra revisits Rishikesh memories, “I just hope that, amid all the changes, it holds on to its soul”; calls this restaurant ‘practically my canteen’ during filmmaking days

Recently, ace industrialist Anand Mahindra shared his old memories that brought Rishikesh in Uttrakhand into the spotlight for a more personal reason. In his #Sundaywanderer post on X on October 18, 2026, he revisited memories of his filmmaking days in th

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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A cyclone wiped out Dhanushkodi in 1964 destroying its railway line and homes; six decades later, visitors travel to the ghost town to see abandoned ruins where the Bay of Bengal meets the Indian Ocean

Among the world's ghost towns, Dhanushkodi holds a special place on that list. This is the ghost town where myths meet reality and the town's history remains intact in its ruins.

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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This ancient forest has trees that have survived for thousands of years; where visitors can walk among some of Earth's oldest living organisms and what makes these ecosystems so resilient

There are places where history is preserved in stone, and then there are places where history is still growing. High in the White Mountains of eastern California, on a landscape of pale limestone, exposed rock and seemingly endless sky, some of the world&

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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At 64, retired Delhi judge Poonam A Bamba joined her 66-year-old husband on a trek she had never planned; over 10 days, she walked more than 65 km to Everest Base Camp without special training

Extraordinary stories are made with extraordinary efforts! Proving age is just a number is Poona A Bamba, a 64-year-old retired Delhi judge, who joined her husband on an unplanned Everest Base camp trek recently.

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Every winter since 1989, builders in Jukkasjarvi in Swedish Lapland have cut ice from the frozen Torne River to rebuild the Icehotel, where guests sleep on ice beds at temperatures below freezing

Have you wondered what it would be like to live in an igloo? Well this hotel in Sweden is not a traditional igloo but it is made entirely out of natural ice and you get to sleep on ice beds.

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

A 16th-century Kashmiri poetess fell in love, but when Akbar sent her love into exile, her songs became Kashmir’s folklore, and a peak in Gurez Valley came to bear her name; meet Habba Khatoon, the 'Nightingale of Kashmir'

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ram Kishore (@ramkishore.1)

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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‘Bhai ye kya design kar diya hai’: Indian traveller says Delhi–Varanasi Vande Bharat Sleeper First AC's inside look ‘will blow your mind’; route, timings and launch date revealed

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Akshay Malhotra (@journeyswithak)

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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At 64, retired Delhi judge Poonam A Bamba joined her 66-year-old husband on a trek she had never planned; over 10 days, she walked more than 65 km to Everest Base Camp without special training - The Times of India

Extraordinary stories are made with extraordinary efforts!

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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Every winter since 1989, builders in Jukkasjarvi in Swedish Lapland have cut ice from the frozen Torne River to rebuild the Icehotel, where guests sleep on ice beds at temperatures below freezing - The Times of India

Have you wondered what it would be like to live in an igloo?

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

A 16th-century Kashmiri poetess fell in love, but when Akbar sent her love into exile, her songs became Kashmir’s folklore, and a peak in Gurez Valley came to bear her name; meet Habba Khatoon, the 'Nightingale of Kashmir' - The Times of India

Kashmir and love stories are eternal!

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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‘Bhai ye kya design kar diya hai’: Indian traveller says Delhi–Varanasi Vande Bharat Sleeper First AC's inside look ‘will blow your mind’; route, timings and launch date revealed - The Times of India

Soon overnight train journeys in India are going to be as luxury and comfortable as it gets thanks to Vande Bharat Sleeper variants.

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

“India now has some of the best roads in the world”: Foreign traveller praises India’s road network after 2,500-km journey across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana and more

India’s development is increasingly visible in its expanding road network. It’s a transformation that stands out particularly to foreign visitors who compare the roads they see today with those they experienced during earlier visits.

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

India’s only confirmed active volcano rises from the Andaman Sea, surrounded by black lava slopes and deep-blue water; travellers can view the remote volcanic island by boat, but landing is restricted

Imagine sailing across the deep blue waters of the Andaman Sea, with the dark rugged slopes of a volcanic island rising in the distance. As your boat circles the coastline, you might be lucky enough to spot a plume of smoke rising from its crater, as the

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

One man collected it all: Inside Hyderabad’s Salar Jung Museum, one of India’s largest single-collector museums, including the Veiled Rebecca and mysterious musical clock

Imagine an art collection so precious and so rare that a museum can be built around it. Well, it happened with the massive art collection of Nawab Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, popularly known as Salar Jung III.

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Anand Mahindra revisits Rishikesh memories, “I just hope that, amid all the changes, it holds on to its soul”; calls this restaurant ‘practically my canteen’ during filmmaking days

Recently, ace industrialist Anand Mahindra shared his old memories that brought Rishikesh in Uttrakhand into the spotlight for a more personal reason. In his #Sundaywanderer post on X on October 18, 2026, he revisited memories of his filmmaking days in th

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

A cyclone wiped out Dhanushkodi in 1964 destroying its railway line and homes; six decades later, visitors travel to the ghost town to see abandoned ruins where the Bay of Bengal meets the Indian Ocean

Among the world's ghost towns, Dhanushkodi holds a special place on that list. This is the ghost town where myths meet reality and the town's history remains intact in its ruins.

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

This ancient forest has trees that have survived for thousands of years; where visitors can walk among some of Earth's oldest living organisms and what makes these ecosystems so resilient

There are places where history is preserved in stone, and then there are places where history is still growing. High in the White Mountains of eastern California, on a landscape of pale limestone, exposed rock and seemingly endless sky, some of the world&

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

At 64, retired Delhi judge Poonam A Bamba joined her 66-year-old husband on a trek she had never planned; over 10 days, she walked more than 65 km to Everest Base Camp without special training

Extraordinary stories are made with extraordinary efforts! Proving age is just a number is Poona A Bamba, a 64-year-old retired Delhi judge, who joined her husband on an unplanned Everest Base camp trek recently.

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Every winter since 1989, builders in Jukkasjarvi in Swedish Lapland have cut ice from the frozen Torne River to rebuild the Icehotel, where guests sleep on ice beds at temperatures below freezing

Have you wondered what it would be like to live in an igloo? Well this hotel in Sweden is not a traditional igloo but it is made entirely out of natural ice and you get to sleep on ice beds.

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

A 16th-century Kashmiri poetess fell in love, but when Akbar sent her love into exile, her songs became Kashmir’s folklore, and a peak in Gurez Valley came to bear her name; meet Habba Khatoon, the 'Nightingale of Kashmir'

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ram Kishore (@ramkishore.1)

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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‘Bhai ye kya design kar diya hai’: Indian traveller says Delhi–Varanasi Vande Bharat Sleeper First AC's inside look ‘will blow your mind’; route, timings and launch date revealed

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Akshay Malhotra (@journeyswithak)

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →

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Buckingham Palace, the official London residence of the UK’s sovereigns since 1837, has 775 rooms: Here's what to know before you visit | Travel

Buckingham Palace is a functioning royal residence that throws its doors open to the public over the summer. Here is why you might like to pay a visit. | Travel

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At 64, retired Delhi judge Poonam A Bamba joined her 66-year-old husband on a trek she had never planned; over 10 days, she walked more than 65 km to Everest Base Camp without special training - The Times of India

Extraordinary stories are made with extraordinary efforts!

Nov 03, 2026 Read more →