Believe it or not, there is more than one program about understanding phytoplankton (which are a lot more important than you would think)!

Similarly, Travel Weekly’s editor has joined our office dog on the couch for a midday nap. However, it’s far from sustainable, given Chompy’s penchant to drool in his sleep.

Thrifty travellers will delight in the extra dollars saved here, with many rumoured to even be inspired to spring for half a tank of petrol.

Brace yourselves, because next week’s trans-Tasman restart could trigger a whopping boost to travel bookings and not just for trips to visit our Kiwi neighbours.

This week we caught up with NCL’s senior manager of sales who’s keen to get her youngest overseas for the first time this year with trips to Fiji and Hawaii already booked. Can we come too?

The tour operator’s yearly tell-all is far more interesting than Travel Weekly’s, which is just a one-page investigation into whose turn it is to do the daily coffee run.

Just in time for International Women’s Day, the adventure travel operator has relaunched its women-only tours to empower women in more conservative countries through tourism.

The tour operator’s start to the new year seems like a much more noble effort than our editorial team’s week-long hangover and $600 UberEats bill.

The tour operator has been getting its hands dirty in an effort to make the atmosphere a little cleaner. And when that started getting too strenuous, they opted to fund someone else to do it for them.

It’s out with the old and in with the new over at Intrepid. However, it’s understood that the plush leather sofa in reception will stay.

Brett Mitchell has warned that despite a massive amount of pent-up demand for international travel, things will need to change before reopening day.

The team at Intrepid are quickly firming as favourites for a humanitarian award following the launch of this brilliant campaign.