Wayne Hall is a travel journalist for The Traveler, specializing in travel news, aviation updates, and destination impacts.
After a multimillion yen street robbery near Ueno Station, China’s stark new Japan travel warnings are reshaping 2026 Lunar New Year plans and raising fresh doubts about Tokyo’s famed safety.
Iran’s tentative tourism rebound is unraveling as harsher Western travel advisories, shrinking insurance coverage and sweeping internet shutdowns in early 2026 choke bookings and threaten thousands of Iranian travel jobs.
U.S. expands 2026 Level 4 “Do Not Travel” advisories to eight African countries, reshaping trip planning with heightened terrorism risks, limited consular support, and potential insurance voids for American travelers.
TSA now charges U.S. travelers 45 dollars for ConfirmID checks at airport security starting February 1, 2026, creating a costly new penalty for flying without REAL ID compliant identification.
Ride the new Special Mohenjo Daro Train Safari from Karachi to ancient Indus ruins via Sehwan Sharif, blending curated rail comfort, Sufi culture and heritage tourism in Sindh’s evolving rail safari network.
Europe flight chaos deepens as winter weather, airspace congestion and staffing strains cancel at least 55 flights and delay 929 more, hitting hubs from London and Paris to Athens and Helsinki.
China’s rare “avoid travel” alert after multimillion yen pepper spray robberies in Tokyo raises new safety questions for Chinese visitors and threatens Japan’s fragile post pandemic tourism recovery.
Bomb Cyclone Gianna slams North Carolina and the Outer Banks with rare Southern blizzard conditions, hurricane force gusts and coastal flooding, disrupting travel plans and testing winter readiness for residents and visitors.
Riverston’s scenic Knuckles corridor in Sri Lanka cautiously reopens after Cyclone Ditwah, with strict light vehicle limits, ongoing landslide monitoring and phased access shaping safer eco tourism in 2026.
Istanbul flights face fresh turmoil as Pegasus and Iran National Airlines suspend 14 services, causing over 100 delays, stranding thousands and raising new safety and planning concerns for travelers via Turkey.
Air France’s sudden Cairo to Paris cancellation is stranding winter travelers across Europe, causing missed connections, rebookings, and raising questions about Cairo’s reliability as a regional gateway.
