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Fort Lauderdale – October 31, 2026 -- Royal Princess has left a two-week Singapore drydock with an Irish pub, 20 new cabins, a premium all-inclusive Sanctuary Collection and a redesigned casino, ahead of a summer season sailing from Sydney.

Sanctuary Collection arrives on the 3,595-guest ship

The October 16-30 refit brings the all-inclusive Sanctuary Collection to Royal Princess, part of a rollout to five Royal-Class ships. It includes access to the Sanctuary Club, elevated amenities and personalized service. Newly built ocean-view staterooms can now be booked in the collection, alongside suites, mini-suites, deluxe balcony and balcony staterooms.

The Sanctuary Restaurant, open only to Sanctuary Collection guests, now operates on deck 6 next to the Concerto Dining Room. The Sanctuary Club joins the collection on April 22, 2027. Until then, adult guests 16 and older can preview it. The space was formerly the Retreat Pool and The Sanctuary.

SINGAPORE – October 28, 2026 -- Trip.com has added a feature called My Travel Impact to its app. It pulls a traveller's more sustainable hotel, flight and rail choices into a single dashboard. The launch follows Trip.com Group's 2026 Sustainable Travel Consumer Report, which found that 56.8% of travellers now intentionally choose more sustainable options and 75.4% say sustainability matters when they make travel decisions.

My Travel Impact covers hotels, flights and rail

The dashboard draws on three parts of a journey:

SINGAPORE – October 28, 2026 -- Turbo VPN has added 42 server locations and 35 streaming connections to its Windows and Mac desktop apps, and it is running a limited-time Halloween deal of 75% off subscriptions plus three extra months of service. Both desktop apps now cover 105 countries. The service is operated by INNOVATIVE CONNECTING PTE. LIMITED.

Windows coverage grows from 98 to 105 countries

On Windows, server locations rise from 133 to 159. The 26 new locations include Brussels, Graz, Tirana, Boston, Denver, Phoenix and Washington, D.C.

Mac gains 16 locations, including Cairo, Mumbai and Tashkent

Mac coverage moves from 100 to 105 countries, and server locations climb from 148 to 164. Several U.S. cities are also among the new additions.

Global – October 25, 2026 -- Disney Cruise Line will debut an entirely new ship class in 2029, with vessels sized between the Disney Wonder and the larger Disney Wish. The first-ever public teaser of the class was shown at the Disney Experiences Showcase, Horizons: A Carousel of Progress, where Claire Weiss joined host Neil Patrick Harris to talk about the new ships.

Three new ships follow Disney Believe in 2027

Announced at D23 in 2024, the expansion will take the Disney Cruise Line fleet to 13 ships over the coming years. Disney Believe, setting sail in 2027, will be the fourth ship in the Wish class. After it, three ships in a brand-new class will launch. Weiss said the teaser had never been seen publicly before.

Singapore – October 13, 2026 -- VPN Proxy Master has added 62 server locations across its Windows and Mac apps, giving desktop users more city-level connection choices in 105 countries.

Windows server locations jump 40.5% to 163

Windows gets the largest share of the upgrade. Server locations rise from 116 to 163, and country coverage grows from 94 to 105. That adds 11 countries and 47 server locations.

The new servers span Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. They include Frankfurt, Kyiv, Buenos Aires, Luanda, Dhaka, Manama, Mumbai, and Osaka.

US users get nine new city options

The United States sees the most extensive city-level expansion, with new locations in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and Washington.

New York – October 06, 2026 -- Wise has launched a combined eSIM and cross-border QR code payment feature inside its app, aiming to eliminate the mobile data and payment struggles travelers face abroad.

Survey finds travelers hunting for free Wi-Fi in awkward ways

A Wise-commissioned YouGov survey of more than 14,000 travelers across eleven countries found that 62% of international travelers in the past year relied on hotel or accommodation Wi-Fi to stay connected. Away from their hotels, 24% admitted to buying something at a café they did not want just to access free Wi-Fi, 15% have stood outside a museum or attraction to use its Wi-Fi instead of going in, and 7% have asked a stranger to share their phone's personal hotspot.

Cash management was the most commonly reported payment problem abroad, cited by 43% of respondents. Among those who faced payment issues, nearly 40% said they missed out on local experiences such as street food markets.

Singapore – October 01, 2026 -- Gauth, the all-in-one study platform, has launched Unlimited Digital Canvas, a new whiteboard feature inside Gauth AI Course that lets students and an AI Tutor work through lessons on one continuous digital board instead of slides or chat windows. The feature is now live across Gauth's history and math libraries and marks the biggest update to AI Course since the product launched in July.

Students and the AI Tutor now share one continuous board

Rather than flipping between isolated slides, chapters expand side-by-side in real time as narration plays, letting students trace how an early step connects to a later one across a single map. Smooth pan-and-zoom controls let learners move between a big-picture view and a single detail, and sessions resume exactly where a student left off, including the exact zoom level.

Singapore – September 11, 2026 -- Voiskey has released a new Keyboard Input feature for its AI voice typing app on iOS and Android, combining manual typing with voice recognition in a single tool.

The update merges typing and voice into one workflow

The company calls it the first all-in-one solution covering "Speak, Polish, Type, and Edit" in the AI voice-typing space. Users can now switch between speaking and typing without leaving the app, letting them manually enter specialized terms, acronyms, or rare proper nouns that voice recognition might miss.

Manual corrections are saved to each user's personalized dictionary, which Voiskey says improves the app's speech recognition accuracy over time with continued use.

Singapore – September 11, 2026 -- Trip.Gourmet, the food and dining brand of Trip.com Group, has released its 2027 Fine Dining List, recognising 744 restaurants across 105 cities and 40 countries and regions to mark the brand's tenth anniversary. The list was unveiled in partnership with Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore, gathering restaurant partners, culinary experts and media for the launch.

The rankings split restaurants into three tiers: 60 Black Diamond, the top distinction, 160 Diamond and 524 Platinum. This year adds 34 new destinations across Europe, North America, Oceania, Asia, South America and Africa, growing the list from a single-market ranking a decade ago into an index now spanning 66 countries and regions and 462 destinations overall.

Singapore – September 07, 2026 -- Travel booking platform Trip.com reports that custom tour bookings surged over 600% year-on-year globally, as travelers increasingly seek fully tailored itineraries over standard packages.

The company's data shows global searches for first and business class flights climbed 99% year-on-year in the first half of 2026, while 5-star hotel searches rose 57% over the same period. The strongest demand for custom tours is coming from Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Singapore.

Concerts and live events are driving cross-border bookings

According to Trip.com Group data, 63% of Asia Pacific travelers have already crossed borders to attend a concert, and 66% say they would be willing to do so. In response, the company launched packages bundling concert tickets, accommodation, transport and local attractions, which saw triple-digit growth in 2025.