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As we make our way into a new year, calls of ‘new year, new me’ ring out across the country. People join gyms, cut out foods and drinks, start walking to work and a whole range of other self-improvement tactics which are designed to make their lives better - even if they do only last a few days or weeks. Keen travellers are no different, and there are a whole range of things that they can do to set themselves resolutions around their travel passions and plans. Here are the most popular new year’s resolutions for travellers in 2020. 

You may be wanting to dress up as one of the world’s scariest animals this Halloween. Perhaps you’re looking for a set of sharp teeth and some fur to wrap around you like a lion, or a large fin so that you can mimic being a shark? Maybe you want to find some long tubes to replicate legs and go as a spider? Or looking for some snakeskin and something you can fashion into a forked tongue to be a snake? However, if you truly want to go as one of the world’s deadliest animals, the reality is that the...

    It’s one of the biggest topics in the news at the moment: climate change. The term, used to describe the changes in weather patterns that Earth has undergone over the course of history, is now part of our everyday lives as experts work to reduce the impact of global warming. Each of the last three decades have been successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than any decade since 1850, and there have also been changes in things such as rainfall and humidity - all of which can affect the life-cycle of mosquitoes and, as a result, mosquito-borne diseases....

When it comes to travelling, it’s key that you remember to take with you all of your travel documents, your currency, your essential items and of course your suitcase. However, it may also be the case that you are bringing an unwelcome invader with you - in the form of a mosquito. Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute have found that mosquitoes are spreading to new places in the world, via a type of ‘hitch-hiking’. The scientists have discovered that several species of mosquitoes are actually successful at sneaking into luggage, cars, trains and even planes - and ultimately...