World Tourism Day

World Tourism Day exists mostly as a reminder that the industry would like you to travel more, which is not the same as travel being easier. It rarely is. Bags get heavier, gates get further away, and the one thing you actually needed is always in the case you checked. None of that gets fixed today, but here is what's on the rack.

Start small: the two-wheel underseater is built for the specific indignity of budget airlines measuring your bag at the gate. Two wheels instead of four means less to catch on cobblestones, and underseat sizing means one less argument at boarding.

For the trip that needs actual capacity, the Intuo spinner 75/28 expands out to 115 litres, which is less a suitcase than a room you wheel around. It's the one you take when you're not coming back with the same amount of stuff you left with.

Somewhere between those two sits the Intuo spinner 55/20, cabin sized, expandable, and light enough at 2.3 kilos that the extra kilo of luggage allowance goes to what's inside it rather than the shell.

Then there's the S'Cure spinner in crimson red, a 75 cm case that trades subtlety for the kind of colour that ends any debate about whose bag is circling the carousel.

For the EasyJet crowd specifically, the Upscape underseat in soft sage is sized to their cabin rules exactly, which matters more than it should when the alternative is repacking at the gate in front of a queue.

And for the case that doesn't come back on the carousel at all, the Chipolo Loop and Card bundle gives you two trackers that talk to Find My or Find Hub, one shaped for a bag, one flat enough for a wallet. Neither guarantees the airline gets it right. They just tell you where it went wrong.