
Kate Springer
Based in Hong Kong, Kate covers travel, food, culture and design for publications such as Condé Nast Traveler, CNN and Travel + Leisure. What does escapism mean to you? ‘A remote safari, sailing trip, cabin in the woods… just free-flowing natural beauty – and zero phone signal.’
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Top hotels
In Your Element: Hotels Where You Can Balance Your Qi
Ahead of Chinese New Year, we've identified a hotel inspired by each of the five elements. Find out which is best suited to your birth year
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Nature and outdoors
13 New Travel Experiences to Book Later This Year
Awesome new travel experiences to look forward to include snorkelling with manta rays in the Maldives and standing on top of the world in Manhattan
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Beaches
Easy Island Getaways from Singapore
Just a short hop away from Singapore, there are island getaways suitable for every traveller
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Food and drink
4 Perfect Ways to Spend Leap Year’s Extra Day
With 2020 being a leap year, we all get an extra day this February. How will you spend yours? Here are four recommendations
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Travel photography
The Stories Behind 5 Stunning Travel Photos
Arresting images require timing, patience, light and skill. We asked travel photographers for the stories behind their best shots
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Tech and gadgets
Innovators and Trends Reshaping the Travel Industry
Thoughtful, progressive, can-do: it’s what the new Cathay Pacific global brand concept is about, but it’s also a mindset others in the travel industry are pursuing for the future. We meet those leading this paradigm shift
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Sustainable travel
How to Be a Good Tourist
Travel is good for us. But tourism also impacts the places we visit – in good ways and bad. We speak with experts on how travellers can avoid the pitfalls of tourism while getting more out of their experiences
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Nature and outdoors
The Great Escapism: 25 Transportive Experiences
Welcome to 2019. Here’s how you get away from it. We find magical ways to transport us far, far beyond everyday stresses and strains
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Top hotels
4 great hotels for digital nomads
Why hotels are reinventing themselves as co-working spaces
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Top hotels
4 hotels for a rural village experience
These scattered hotel concepts have injected new life into historic villages around the world
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Japan
My Japan: By Mami Kataoka
The chief curator at Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum (MAM) and artistic director of the 21st Biennale of Sydney recommends the best arty experiences in Japan
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Health and wellness
Travel trend #3: Wellness and wellbeing
It started with the humble spa – now resorts are offering health breaks tailored to your DNA. How far will wellness tourism go?
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Food and drink
5 minutes with: Chef Yoshihiro Narisawa
Chef Yoshihiro Narisawa, who helms two-Michelin-starred Narisawa in Tokyo, on his Japan highlights
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Chinese mainland
Welcome to the Hamptons… of China
The story of luxury tourism in China in one mountain retreat
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Japan
My Japan, by Kengo Kuma
One of Japan's foremost architects describes his perspective on his country





