October 2026 edition · links checked October 2026

Travel resources worth bookmarking

Nine short lists for choosing a destination, booking a bed, getting around and staying safe, plus fact sheets for 90 countries. Each month every link is checked again, and the changes are noted below.

41 countries list October among their best months to visit. Some are for skiing, northern lights or Christmas markets, so read each country's note. Where to go in October.

Discover

Travel guides, review sites, hiking maps, World Heritage sites, climate data and offbeat ideas for choosing where to go and what to see.

Lonely Planet lonelyplanet.com
Wikivoyage en.wikivoyage.org
Atlas Obscura atlasobscura.com

All 11 Discover links

Visas & entry

How to check which visa or travel authorisation you need, and the official government sites for ETAs, the EU EES and ETIAS, and digital arrival cards.

UK Foreign Travel Advice gov.uk
Government of Canada: travel advice travel.gc.ca
GOV.UK: check if you need a UK visa gov.uk

All 21 Visas & entry links

Plan & pack

Route planners, entry requirements, currency and time zone tools, activity booking, packing advice and food guides for planning a trip.

Rome2Rio rome2rio.com
Booking.com booking.com
XE Currency Converter xe.com

All 13 Plan & pack links

Travel

Flight search and tracking, seat maps, trains, buses, car rental, carpooling and cheap flight deals for getting from A to B.

Skyscanner skyscanner.com
Kayak kayak.com
Google Flights google.com

All 18 Travel links

Accommodation

Where to book hostels, hotels and holiday rentals, how to check cancellation terms, plus house sitting, home swaps and free stays with locals.

Booking.com booking.com
Hostelworld hostelworld.com
Airbnb airbnb.com

All 14 Accommodation links

Safety

Is it safe to travel there? Government travel advisories, health advice, what to check in travel insurance, emergency numbers and how to spot booking scams.

U.S. Department of State travel.state.gov
UK Foreign Travel Advice gov.uk
Government of Canada travel.gc.ca

All 11 Safety links

Budget & solo

Budget planning, money abroad and solo travel: cost data, rail passes and government safety advice for solo and women travellers.

Wikivoyage: Budget travel en.wikivoyage.org
Numbeo cost of living numbeo.com
Interrail interrail.com

All 9 Budget & solo links

Digital nomad

City comparisons, internet speeds, remote-work visa pages, tax residency rules, coliving and health insurance for remote workers who travel.

Nomads.com nomads.com
Numbeo numbeo.com
Speedtest Global Index speedtest.net

All 14 Digital nomad links

Sustainability

Eco certification schemes, flight-free trips by train, flight carbon calculators, responsible tour operators and Leave No Trace guidance.

GSTC gstc.org
Green Key greenkey.global
Ecobnb ecobnb.com

All 12 Sustainability links

Planning guides

Before you book

Where to go, month by month
Which of our 90 countries are in season for the month you can travel.
Is it safe to travel there?
How to read US, UK and Canadian travel advice, with official links for every country.
Which review sites to trust
What Tripadvisor, Booking.com, Viator and GetYourGuide reviews can and cannot tell you.
Is this travel website legit?
Eight quick checks before you book with a site you don't know, and what to do if you've already paid.

The year at a glance

How many countries are in season each month

Counts come from the best-time note on each country page. Pick a month for its list.

Edition notes

What changed in October

Each monthly link check is an edition. These are the changes worth knowing about.

Added 49 country pages, from 41 to 90, including Hong Kong, Uzbekistan and the Cook Islands.
Added Two new lists: Visas & entry and Budget & solo.
Removed Citizen Remote, a commercial visa assistance service, from Digital nomad.
Corrected Emergency numbers for Albania and the Maldives, checked against GOV.UK.
Replaced GOV.UK with Czech sources for Czechia's ID, ticket and tram tips. The ID tip now gives the Interior Ministry's rule that non-EU visitors must show a valid travel document to police, in place of GOV.UK's advice that police normally accept a passport scan.
Added Official tourism or guide-service sites next to the Wikivoyage guides for Czechia's top destinations.
Replaced Uruguay's English Ministry of Tourism pages on tourist tax benefits and Cabo Polonio, which stopped loading, with the Spanish versions.
Rejected welcomenepal.com. Nepal's old tourism domain now serves gambling, so the Nepal page links ntb.gov.np instead.
Dropped Prices, dated details and unsourced claims from country pages.

Country fact sheets

Official tourism, transport and park links, quick facts and practical tips for each country. Compare all 90 countries.