Where to Spend Your Beach Holiday – Malaysia or Thailand? For those of us who are lucky enough to have the opportunity to go on beach holidays, the first question we ask ourselves is...
Category - Insights
…about information and tips for your beach holiday along with reports, studies, articles, and research related to beachlife and travel.
The Sand Color of Our Beaches
Sand Color is Important Take a moment and imagine your dream beach. How does it look? If you need help, try to search for ‘stunning beach’ on google images and see which photos...
New Thailand Infographic and Destination Page
Did you see our new Thailand infographic and destination page? We have been working behind the scenes, and can now present our destination page for Thailand. The page will continuously be...
Which Beach Do You Want?
Beach Survey – the results are in Remember our Beachmeter beach survey, where we set out to explore which features and characteristics make a fantastic beach? Most of our respondents...
Green Hotel Bookings Made Easy
How to find a green hotel? What do you do if you prefer to stay at a hotel that cares about its employees, the community it operates in, and the natural surroundings? You may have stayed at...
Practical Tips for Sustainable Travel
Have you ever wondered what you can do to travel like a sustainability champion? Some people mistakingly think that the very act of traveling is incompatible with sustainability because of...
Man-Made Beaches – from Grooming to Construction
Why man-made beaches? We like our beaches to be clean, comfortable, and stunning. We want soft white sand and coconut palms. So what happens when a beach does not live up to our criteria of...
How to Bargain in Thailand
The exotic act of bargaining “Traveling to Thailand? You better polish those bargaining skills”. Isn’t that what we read or hear before our first trip to the East? First...
Why Travelers Shouldn’t be Afraid of Tourist Scams
Walking down Khao San Road in Bangkok, Jalan Jaksa in Jakarta, or the Old Quarter in Hanoi the same thing always happens… One, you see local residents approaching travelers and trying...