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Help! What happens if I catch Covid-19 overseas?

Herald Travel answers your questions about international travel during the pandemic.

Viral video of waterslide fail on cruise ship: 'It happened to me too'

The viral clip of a woman stuck in a waterslide hits close to home for our Travel Editor.

National parks turn 150: What needs to change for conservation

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Help! My vaccine passport is expiring and I want to book a trip

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Florida of the South Pacific: Is YHA the ITP's first casualty?

For almost ninety years, backpackers looking for bunks have had a place in the YHA.

Back in Black Friday? Should we buy into the November travel Sales?

Black Friday, Mega Monday, Trivial Tuesday?

The most expensive minibar item ever sold

Is it time hotels free-up a little space and ditch the minibar?

Sickie etiquette: The ethics of pulling a sick day to travel

Sick leave has doubled. Can we expect more Kiwis to be 'pulling sickies'?

'One tourism franchise to divide them all': LOTR leaves NZ

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Get me on the plane! Why I can't wait for the border to open

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Transtasman bubble: Opinion - I'm a travel writer and I'm having an identity crisis

How do you make a living when the world keeps pushing you away?

Singapore bubble: Could NZ's borders be opened via the back door?

Australia is still determined to open to Singapore, what does this mean for New Zealand?

How to ... holiday in relative safety

Why travel across the country only to sleep on a blow up mattress?

Travellers learn to live with Covid risk, insurers rewrite history

Coronavirus may become a travel risk we live with, say travel insurers.

Half-price airfare club: Air NZ flirts with footloose travellers

Gotta Getaway: Or, how Kiwis learned to stop worrying and book last minute.