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Top 14 Must-Visit Spots on Your Vancouver to Calgary Road Trip

Look, there’s no beating around the bush! We’re totally in love with all the best places in Canada. Not only is it completely vast, with beautiful national parks and vibrant cities like Vancouver and Calgary, it’s also filled with the best road trips with Alberta and British Columbia being no exception. In fact, there’s a heap of places to see on a drive from Vancouver to Calgary that you really can’t miss.
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How Electric Vehicles Revolutionize Safaris in Kenya

If you’ve ever seen a cheetah stalk its prey, you know that even for the fastest animal on the plain, the hunt is an exercise in patience and silence. If you’re lucky enough to be the one stalking a big cat while on safari, you understand that pursuit demands the same quiet stamina — until the noiselessness of the prowl is disrupted by the diesel roar of your open-air Land Cruiser.
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Top New Hotels of 2025: Editor’s Choice for Luxury Stays Worldwide

Believe it or not, the past 12 months were significant for hotel openings. Flinging open their doors for the first time, these new and revamped properties welcomed guests inside with a (masked) hello and a taste of travel’s future. Our guide to the essential openings of the past year took us to 29 countries in pursuit of the unforgettable. Over the course of 2024, GoTravelDaily writers and editors trekked to a remote Namibian tented camp in a vast nature reserve, surfed the waves at a boho-chic resort in Baja Sur, Mexico, and sipped Sazeracs on the porch of an 1891 former residence in New Orleans. While there are plenty of extravagant stays and familiar brands on the list, we committed to featuring properties that excel in their offerings while showcasing a sense of innovation. Brand new builds, century-old architectural masterpieces, and family-run boutiques are all included. Ahead, you’ll find a hotel or resort for every taste and travel goal. There’s a 19th-century mansion in Jaipur, India, reborn as an intimate urban escape, a sleek getaway amid lush tropical forest on Malaysia’s Desaru coast, a safari lodge in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, Massachusetts wellness retreat, set on hundreds of acres of wilderness in the Berkshires, where meditation, beekeeping, and organic food awaits.
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The Standard Expands Globally with Iconic New Hotel in Bangkok’s Skyline

It’s safe to say thatThe Standard, the hip and highly hyped hotel brand with locations in the U.S., U.K., and Maldives, is different than the rest — in the best way possible. According to Amar Lalvani, CEO of Standard International, the hotel’s parent company, that’s exactly the point. “I’d like to think many in the hospitality business are sort of backward looking,” Lalvani expressed. “And I think we’re very forward looking.”
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Explore Unalaska: The Ultimate U.S. Public Transportation Adventure

The ever-expanding tapestry of commercial airline routes, train lines, and highways criss-crossing so much of our planet makes it profoundly difficult to ever feel like you’re on the “edge” of anything. Many of us now think about distances in terms of airborne hours, like how from New York, it takes basically the same time to reach either Los Angeles or Dublin. Moreover, you can even drive the Canadian highway system all the way north to the Arctic Ocean at Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories — and then theoretically turn right back around and drive all the way south to Patagonia. As it turns out, a real sense of having made it to the edge of civilization can be challenging to find.
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The Maldives: Journey from Fishing Archipelago to Tropical Paradise in 50 Years

The beauty of the Maldives comes naturally, enhanced by a hospitality infrastructure that has evolved over the last 50 years. Initially, in the 1970s, the Maldives was a remote, largely uninhabited archipelago. While fishermen lived on the islands, there were no regular flights or investment in the Maldives as a tourist destination. Consequently, the small airstrip on Hulhule Island, which was barely considered a commercial airport, didn’t see much traveler traffic, keeping the Maldives off the map for many.
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