Come October and it is holiday time again. With swine flu cautions and recession blues keeping your purse strings tight, planning a holiday and choosing a suitable destination may seem quite a task. However, travel agencies are quite upbeat about good business this festive season and have worked out a slew of tempting offers.

Business is expected to be at least as good as the 2009 summer...

Higher oil prices will impact India more than other countries. Here are some solutions from Veeresh Malik

Increasingly, large parts of Germany (one-third, according to some reports), much of Scandinavia and rapidly growing areas in California will not be impacted by the rise in fuel prices. Countries like France and Japan are also rapidly doing away with dependency on petroleum products for...

Dubai is a travellers’ delight and a marvel of human enterprise. Over the past 40 years, this backward desert outpost of Bedouin traders has been transformed into a glittering, ultra-modern city that is also safe and virtually crime-free with strict adherence to the rule of law. It is a melting pot of people from every part of the world including Indians, East Asians, Russians and Europeans....