A publisher of travel guides has seen his business plunged into uncertainty by the collapse in international travel. Another publisher sees a vast untapped market for armchair travel until we start taking trips again.

Hong Kong’s remaining kaito ferry services offer links to outlying islands, traditional villages and quiet bays that remind travellers of a slower pace of life. Here are four worth taking for the boat ride alone.

Photographer and triple amputee Giles Duley – who lost his legs and an arm to an IED on assignment in Afghanistan – explains why losing his limbs has made him even more passionate about highlighting human suffering.

His name may have fallen out of historical favour but the eccentric Englishman was pioneering budget travel – such as walking to India – at a time when few people would have dreamt of venturing further than their front door for fun.

Hong Kong’s country parks offer more than 40 free campsites. From Victoria Harbour to Lantau Island and Sai Kung, these six sites have few mod cons but amazing views.

Outward Bound has been taking people out of urban Hong Kong and out of themselves on adventure training courses since 1970.

If and when the authorities in Hong Kong and Thailand agree to allow visits from each place without quarantine, most tourists will head for the usual Thai hot spots. You may want something quieter.

At the age of 37, Peter Leung had run out of hope. Homeless and destitute, he heard about ImpactHK, a Hong Kong charity helping vagrants, and suddenly he was given a second chance.

New hotels are still expected to open in Asia-Pacific this year as large chains gamble on a post-pandemic recovery in tourism. Accor plans more than 100 openings, for example.

Born two days before Burma’s 8888 Uprising, she first saw her parents in a Thai refugee camp when she was 12. Educated in Australia, she returned to Myanmar, and recently devised the menu for a restaurant in Hong Kong.

The Unesco stamp acts like a magnet for tourists, but similar sites nearby don’t draw the crowds. We picked five in Asia worth your attention once travel is OK again.

A head bartender creating cocktails in Bangkok, a gin distiller in Hong Kong, Malaysia’s only female whisky bottler – women in Asia are making their mark in a man’s world.

From an indoor market like no other to uninhabited islands to beautiful waterfalls, here are five stunning locations in Hong Kong that are well off the beaten track.

Consular officials recall their best loved holiday destinations in the countries they represent, and from Kazakhstan’s Charyn Canyon to Kruger National Park, in South Africa, there is plenty to inspire.

Orphans, beggars, human trafficking victims, drug addicts, they found salvation, and trained as acrobats, with a circus in Cambodia.

The news that China will draft a national security law for Hong Kong prompted a rise in inquiries from the city about migration, say immigration consultants.

She was a teenager from New Jersey on a gap year trekking in Nepal when she saw a young girl breaking rocks. Maggie Doyne’s life changed in a second. She has devoted herself to helping the girl and her neighbours ever since.

Mount Everest was Chung Kin-man’s bugbear until he reached the summit at the fifth attempt, on his way to climbing the highest peaks on seven continents. Now 67, he wants to scale at least one more 8,000-metre peak.

Around the turn of the 20th century, the Sarkies brothers built an empire of heritage hotels from Singapore to Indonesia. But not every boutique property bore the entrepreneurial siblings’ name.

A late career change may see you stepping off the corporate ladder and giving up a regular salary, but the rewards can outweigh any initial fears. We talk to four people who flourished after taking the plunge.

From virtual chefs that take diners on culinary world tours to augmented reality 3D models that help customers choose dishes, dining and tech are being combined in ways that could change how we eat out in future.

The London-based Australian has dedicated his career to bringing crises, corruption and crimes against humanity into the public sphere.

Lonely Planet has sold more than 145 million travel guidebooks but its fortunes turned in recent years with competition from websites like Tripadvisor. Co-founder Tony Wheeler reflects on its legacy and details his future plans.

With contemporary tourism grounded, take a trip through some of history’s greatest – although sometimes lesser known – Asian travel journals.

Silicon Valley entrepreneur believes the time has come to build artificial-intelligence-driven eco-villages that generate their own power and produce their own food. ReGen Villages are ‘the right optimistic solution coming out of Covid-19’, he says.

A radical design studio in Bangkok set up by a pair of Belgians crafts bespoke, handmade furniture from huge pieces of reclaimed wood with the help of Thai artisans and an Italian bronze master who once worked for Salvador Dali.

The chief concierge at the InterContinental hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui, Louis Baleros shares anecdotes from the past 30 years, from running out of champagne on handover night to weathering the storm of Sars.

Introduced to Japan in 1871, baseball became the country’s first team sport and is now spoken of as the second national game, after sumo. But why do the Japanese love it so much?

For discerning super-rich Asians, there’s only one option when it comes to coronavirus bolt-holes: buying a private island. For a fraction of the cost of a Hong Kong home, you can join them.