Travel Health and Safety

Sri Lanka has been rocked by a series of crises in the past two decades but locals are now urging tourists to return and enjoy its sights.

As Bron stood atop a ridge, trying to find her way back to the Larapinta Trail, all she could think about was the Victorian hiker whose body was retrieved from the same track only a month before.

Blessed with pristine lagoons and coral reefs, New Caledonia was hoping to attract more Australian tourists. After civil unrest struck, businesses are now thinking about survival.

Australia is proving a winner with international travellers, with new data showing they are staying longer and often spending more than before the pandemic.

A passenger on a Melbourne-bound flight which had to make an emergency landing in New Zealand after an engine caught fire has praised the pilots for managing a safe descent and ensuring no-one was injured.

When a person goes missing along the iconic Larapinta Trail in Central Australia, search and rescue pilot Warwick Curr is often one of the first people to know. After 20 years, the job never gets easier. 

Many Australians are preparing to head overseas and interstate these school holidays. Medical experts reveal how long before their travel they should be getting a booster.

In a play for legitimacy in the eyes of the rest of the world, the Taliban is looking to reignite Afghanistan's tourism industry. Some Australians are taking up the invitation.

As the nation prepares to mark the first anniversary of the Hunter Valley bus crash, steps continue to be taken to improve bus safety and ensure a similar tragedy never happens again. 

Nearly 16 years ago, Caroline Southcott got up to go to the toilet on a flight from Singapore to Perth. As she was returning to her seat, she suffered severe injuries that continue to impact her to this day.

A refuelling issue that brought Perth airport to a standstill has been fixed allowing flights to resume. 

A 73-year-old man died of a suspected heart attack and dozens were injured after flight SQ321, flying from London to Singapore, encountered sudden, extreme turbulence while flying over Myanmar last week.

An Australian man injured when a Singapore Airlines flight "fell into a huge hole" over Myanmar says his wife "is not in a great space" after suffering a spinal injury.

Emu Run Tours is alleged to have made a change to one of its busses without assessments or approvals before it crashed and killed a 69-year-old man.

Up to 12 Australians who were on the London-to-Singapore flight that suffered extreme turbulence this week remain in two hospitals in Bangkok.

English passenger Andrew Davies describes the moment his Singapore Airlines flight from London struck "severe turbulence", forcing it to make an emergency landing in Bangkok.

Lucas Venner entered his 20s with a common ambition: To travel the world. He has succeeded by hitchhiking the entire way. The Frenchman left his home country in early 2023 to embark on a 15-month mission to New Zealand — and the generosity of strangers has kept him going.

WA Police Polair vision of the rescue of two stranded travellers who set off an EPIRB.

Carl Jakeway and his wife did their best to get themselves out of trouble, but eventually activated their locator beacon and were rescued by police.

The Queensland Land Court rules in favour of stripping Hong Kong-based billionaire Benny Wu of the Double Island resort lease but leaves the final decision in the hands of Resources Minister Scott Stewart.

While $3 million will be put towards the Gloucester and Dave Evans Bicentennial Trees in this year's budget, locals and prospective visitors face a wait of at least 12 months for both tourist attractions to reopen. 

Bonza customers and staff are waiting for information as the airline enters voluntary administration and grounds its planes.

A pool lined with green sludge, rotting roofs and termite infested buildings – this derelict island resort has become a sad tourist attraction for all the wrong reasons, and it's not an isolated case.

Travellers set to explore one of northern Australia's most renowned tourist destinations are being urged to properly prepare for remote travel as vast areas welcome visitors for the dry season. 

Charlie Lynn led trekkers across the rugged Kokoda Track for three decades — but after one trip last year, he decided the mountainous trail had fallen too far into disrepair for him to return.