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Business News > Mint Authors > Nikki Ekstein

Nikki Ekstein

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ARTICLES BY NIKKI EKSTEIN

Deepak Chopra on future of wellness travel after covid

5 min read . 23 Apr 2021

The Covid-19 vaccines approved to date, both in the U.S. and Europe, have proven to be exceptionally safe, effective, and the strongest tool yet in combatting the pandemic. (AFP)

Is it safe to travel after taking covid vaccine?

5 min read . 15 Jan 2021

Passengers sit on a plane after they left the coronavirus-hit cruise ship Diamond Princess at Haneda Airport (LOLITA WIESNER via REUTERS)

How airlines are cleaning planes amid the threat of coronavirus

3 min read . 27 Feb 2020

A view of Haifa from the Bahá’í gardens. Photo: iStockphoto

Bridging the gap

4 min read . 09 Mar 2018

Shwesandaw Pagoda in Bagan, Myanmar. Bagan is a tiny town that’s dotted with thousands of bulbous temple stupas. Photo: iStockphoto

The five places that stole my heart in 2017

7 min read . 04 Jan 2018

US President Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters

Anti-Trump hotel to open in Washington

2 min read . 15 Nov 2017

Luxury yachts at the port of St Tropez in southern France. Photo: Alamy

Live the yacht life for just €99 a day

3 min read . 20 Oct 2017

Want to avoid other tourists when you travel? Here’s where to go.

7 min read . 30 Aug 2017

For every VIP itinerary, there are “layers of experts” coordinating the logistics. Photo: iStock

The travel habits of highly successful CEOs

7 min read . 19 Aug 2017

A traditional wooden house in Plyos, fresh off a restoration. Photographs by Alam

Plyos: The town on the Volga

5 min read . 28 Jul 2017

A rendering of the ship. Photo: Courtesy The Ritz-Carlton

Take note, Ritz-Carlton is building the anti-cruise ship

5 min read . 07 Jul 2017

Hotel Eden, Rome, Italy.

There’s never been a better summer to visit Italy

3 min read . 18 Jun 2017

All solo travellers encounter nagging thoughts about safety at some point or the other.

4 apps that solo travellers must download

2 min read . 09 Jun 2017

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Domain Awareness System tracks endangered animals’ movements in order to get ahead of poachers on a scale that allows Big Data to predict threats across entire regions. Photo: Singita

Paul Allen goes digital to save the world’s most-endangered animals

7 min read . 11 May 2017

Photo: Paramayra/Wikimedia Commons

The best undiscovered beaches in the world

5 min read . 22 Apr 2017

A meal in the clouds. Photo courtesy: Remote Lands

Champagne picnic at 13,000ft

3 min read . 15 Apr 2017

Given that a wide swath of passengers flying between the US and Asia will connect in Dubai or Abu Dhabi, the ban has extreme implications. Photo: Mint

Hacks to survive a 20-hour flight, without a laptop or tablet

4 min read . 23 Mar 2017

Aside from variations in cabins and service quality, there’s the major concern of how likely you are to get delayed. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

Air India is ranked the third worst performing airline in the world

3 min read . 09 Jan 2017

Marriott was already the biggest hotel company in the world with its 19 brands—including Ritz-Carlton, JW Marriott, and Edition—and now it has 30. Photo: AP

Marriott and Starwood reveal the future of their luxury brands

6 min read . 28 Nov 2016

According to a travel industry expert, at least 50 parties are planned at a typical five-star resort every year—with one-fifth of them costing upward of a million . Photo: Reuters

Forget private villas, the super rich are now renting the whole resort

4 min read . 31 Oct 2016