Global Travel Travel Guides

This archive brings together 8 published stories about Global Travel. Use it as a starting point and confirm changeable details before traveling.

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Published August 6, 2026English edition

How to Check Visa Requirements Before Booking

A practical workflow for checking destination and transit visa requirements before paying for flights, hotels or other non-refundable travel.

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Use the remaining Global Travel stories selectively and keep only the advice that fits your route.

A beginner-friendly workflow for using IATA Travel Centre information to check passport, visa, transit and health-document requirements.

A practical, printable checklist for passports, visas, transit, tickets, health documents and supporting evidence from planning to departure.

Understand destination-specific passport validity, blank-page, document-condition, emergency-passport and name-matching checks before travel.

Understand how layovers, separate tickets, baggage collection, self-transfers, airport changes and overnight connections affect transit checks.

Understand what visa-free entry, visa on arrival, ETA or eTA, eVisa and a prior visa require before an international trip.

Understand why Henley, Passport Index and VisaIndex can publish different passport scores, leaders and ranks on the same date.

Understand how major passport rankings calculate access, why their results differ and how to verify the rules for a real international trip.