Climbing the world's tallest peak has gone from rugged challenge to booming tourist attraction. Sir Edmund Hillary would turn in his grave.

It is amazing that - despite how thoroughly the airlines reckon they filter the air - almost invariably after a long flight I end up with a dose of flu.

Advice on travelling to Malaysia with a two-year-old and spending a week in Beijing.

If you move off the beaten track - and sometimes even if you stay on it - now and again you're likely to find yourself staying somewhere a bit dodgy in a room where the door doesn't lock properly.

Jon Williams of The Project Kiwi Trust shares his travel tips.

Fancy a cruise lifestyle on the waves, but plagued by motion sickness? Deborah Abrams Kaplan offers some solutions.

DJ Andy Morton shares his travel tips.

Explore the Northern Province of New Caledonia with six days' car rental, return airfares and seven nights' accommodation.

A stint or a secondment overseas in your chosen occupation is something everyone should look at doing at all levels of their career, from PA to chief executive, writes Gill South.

Lawrence Acket enjoys the luxury of the Catalina Flying Boat.

Going travelling for a while? Then put a pack of Tebe skincare products in the bag as a treat.

Greek island-hopping passes are priced from $615 each.

Advice on visiting Barcelona, Valencia and Santiago de Compostela.

What is comedian Dai Henwood's favourite souvenir? A kangaroo skull.

Being a large man taking up a space usually occupied by three Vietnamese, writer Walter Mason was obviously an easily noticed foreign visitor in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (aka Saigon).

Queenstown's new Ziptrek is an ecological adventure with views of Lake Wakatipu as you zip through the forest canopy on flying foxes.

Advice from a travel expert on travelling between Greece and Croatia.

Victoria Bartle rounds up some of the best travel deals going.

The old spirit of New Zealand ingenuity, of being able to build anything from a Large Hadron Collider to a small vacuum cleaner with No.8 fencing wire, lives on in the imaginative Kiwi traveller.

I am planning a trip to Italy next January, travelling north from Rome, and have always wanted to visit Assisi...

Stay two nights at the four-star Novotel Queenstown Lakeside and get full buffet breakfasts.

One of the special joys of touring New Zealand these days is the number of places you find that sell great food.

Scribe says there's not always time to do washing when travelling on the tour.

United Travel has Cook Islands packages including return airfares with Pacific Blue from Auckland, and five nights at the five-star Te Vakaroa Villas from $1999 each.

The Bay of Islands Country Rock Festival will be held May 7-9 in venues around Paihia, Waitangi, Russell and Haruru Falls.

Lonely Planet experts share their tips for travel to China, France and Italy.

International chef and author Tom Kime shares his travel tips.

United Travel has Ruapehu ski passes, from $79 a person per day. Gear rental from $37 a person.

Graham Reid goes looking for the cheaper side of London life.

A colleague who has never been to Europe has the chance to attend conferences in Vienna and Zurich, and she's keen to combine an extra two weeks' travel before or after each.