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    Inside Singapore's Vaccinated Travel Lane Flights
    Chris Wright
    • Oct 9, 2021
    • 8 min

    Inside Singapore's Vaccinated Travel Lane Flights

    Look, I don’t want to rub it in, but I spent last week in the Bavarian Alps. I walked every day in fresh mountain air. Cow bells rang and...
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    How Bhutan Built Conservation Finance Into its DNA
    Chris Wright
    • Jun 13, 2020
    • 8 min

    How Bhutan Built Conservation Finance Into its DNA

    Euromoney, October 2019 Tiny Bhutan has a big claim to fame: the world’s first, and only, country that can claim to be not only carbon...
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    The Other Side of Everest
    Chris Wright
    • Jun 13, 2020
    • 7 min

    The Other Side of Everest

    AFR Sophisticated Traveller, October 2019 Mount Everest has had a bad press of late. There have been too many deaths on the mountain and...
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    Blood, Thunder and Politics at Harlem's Canaan Baptist Church
    Chris Wright
    • Oct 4, 2019
    • 6 min

    Blood, Thunder and Politics at Harlem's Canaan Baptist Church

    Harlem church tours have become a New York Sunday morning tourist attraction. They can have an uncomfortable voyeuristic feeling, but...
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    Diary of a Dash Across Australia
    Chris Wright
    • Oct 4, 2019
    • 18 min

    Diary of a Dash Across Australia

    So it was like this. I got a message from my friend Heath, who was on his way from Busselton in Western Australia to Gold Coast in...
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    The Shorts-Wearing Banker who Built a Unique Hotel
    Chris Wright
    • Oct 4, 2019
    • 11 min

    The Shorts-Wearing Banker who Built a Unique Hotel

    AFR Sophisticated Traveller, August 1 2019 Being put on the spot by an awkward question led banking executive Neal Cross to spend...
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    Tears, Track and Tourism on the Death Railway
    Chris Wright
    • Mar 9, 2019
    • 8 min

    Tears, Track and Tourism on the Death Railway

    A large industry exists around the site of the Thailand-Burma Death Railway, where thousands were worked to death in World War Two. It...
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    Jeeps and Lava: Joining the Many at a Mount Bromo Sunrise
    Chris Wright
    • Oct 28, 2018
    • 5 min

    Jeeps and Lava: Joining the Many at a Mount Bromo Sunrise

    Travelwrighter.com, October 2018 It is 3am and the air is roaring. The sound is coming from jeeps, hundreds of them, climbing the steep...
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    Red Rockets: Space Tourism in the Former USSR
    Chris Wright
    • Oct 19, 2018
    • 11 min

    Red Rockets: Space Tourism in the Former USSR

    Australian Financial Review Sophisticated Traveller, October 2018 The only place you can see humans launched into space today is in...
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    GoPay: Indonesia's Metal Ignition
    Chris Wright
    • Oct 5, 2018
    • 8 min

    GoPay: Indonesia's Metal Ignition

    Euromoney, October 2018 GoPay is considered southeast Asia's answer to Ant Financial. Its CEO comes with a background in the most micro...
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    From Apes to Apps: Neal Cross's Digital Journey
    Chris Wright
    • Sep 1, 2018
    • 11 min

    From Apes to Apps: Neal Cross's Digital Journey

    Euromoney, September 2018 Neal Cross brought a range of unusual experience to his job at chief innovation officer at DBS, one of the...
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    Aitutaki: the South Pacific as you want it to be
    Chris Wright
    • Aug 29, 2018
    • 6 min

    Aitutaki: the South Pacific as you want it to be

    The Cook Islands' crown jewel is the lagoon of Aitutaki What’s your mental picture of the South Pacific? Mine was a lagoon. Clear, blue,...
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    Ningaloo: Australia's Secret Reef
    Chris Wright
    • Apr 19, 2018
    • 13 min

    Ningaloo: Australia's Secret Reef

    While concerns grow about the health of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia's Indian Ocean coast boasts one just as grand but far less...
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    Lake Baikal: Siberia's Frozen Jewel
    Chris Wright
    • Mar 30, 2018
    • 11 min

    Lake Baikal: Siberia's Frozen Jewel

    Big, beautiful, spiritual, frozen. A few days on Lake Baikal gives you a new perspective A version of this article ran in Metro newspaper...
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    Katong: The Funky Singapore District at the Sweet Spot of Gentrification
    Chris Wright
    • Mar 16, 2018
    • 4 min

    Katong: The Funky Singapore District at the Sweet Spot of Gentrification

    Good Weekend, Sydney Morning Herald, March 16 2018 The Peranakan people are all about cultural collision. The Peranakan are the...
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    Masai Mara: Watching the Wild Life of Wildlife
    Chris Wright
    • Jan 23, 2018
    • 6 min

    Masai Mara: Watching the Wild Life of Wildlife

    A safari in Kenya is a bucket-list classic, and deservedly so. But it's the detail as much as the grandeur that stays with you afterwards...
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    Staying in a story at Loldia
    Chris Wright
    • Jan 14, 2018
    • 4 min

    Staying in a story at Loldia

    To stay at Loldia House is to stay in a story. Story upon story. There is the story of the main house, a stocky brick and stone...
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    Tiong Bahru: Singapore's Coolest Suburb
    Chris Wright
    • Jan 1, 2018
    • 6 min

    Tiong Bahru: Singapore's Coolest Suburb

    Qantas Travel Insider, January 2018 Nowhere else in Singapore looks like this. Just a few metres back from one of the city’s teeming...
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    Life at the Sharp End of Climate Change
    Chris Wright
    • Sep 14, 2017
    • 13 min

    Life at the Sharp End of Climate Change

    Euromoney magazine, September 2017 Pacific island states like Kiribati, the Cook Islands and Palau are among the most exposed in the...
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    The Mersey Beat
    Chris Wright
    • Nov 1, 2016
    • 6 min

    The Mersey Beat

    Qantas magazine, November 2016 Back in the early 1980s, the playwright Alan Bleasdale was looking for an image to convey the utter misery...
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