PASSPORT POWER If you’re looking for a smooth travel experience, passports from Japan, Singapore and South Korea are your best bets. Offering visa-free access to more than 190 countries, these Asian nations have dethroned European destinations to top the latest Henley Passport Index. In contrast, Iraq and Afghanistan have the least-coveted passports, providing entry to fewer than 30 countries without a visa. Where does Canada land? Granting hassle-free access to 185 countries, it’s tied with four other nations for the eighth spot. THE 10 MOST POWERFUL PASSPORTS OF 2022 PASSPORT RANK COUNTRY ENTRY SCORE Japan 1 193 WORK FROM THE BEACH? Singapore 2 192 For many business-leisure travellers, work is better in flip-flops. As a new subset of digital nomads, they typically work abroad for weeks or months before South Korea 2 192 T C E returning home – making those working from home J O look positively quaint. R Germany 3 190 N P As more employees look to work from anywhere they U O want for shorter periods, governments are scrambling Y N N B to figure out visa and tax regulations, Michelle O C Jamrisko, Suttinee Yuvejwattana and Claire Jiao report Spain 3 190 HT), I G in Bloomberg News. Businesses also have a new set of I headaches as they navigate compliance and corporate H (R S culture. Despite the difficulty, one business leader Finland 4 189 LA P S expects more companies will set up remote work N U / N options for trusted employees. E S For pandemic-ravaged tourism hotspots like Bali Italy 4 189 O B R and Thailand, this work-from-anywhere trend could O allow for a comeback. One Indonesian resort that FT), JAK offers large communal areas, workspaces, and the Luxembourg 4 189 opportunity to go snorkelling between Zoom meetings, EAD (LE is in high demand with working sun-seekers. However, H AD O Indonesia’s immigration and tax laws are still murky in Austria 5 188 R this area, while Thailand’s visa application process may K B be too complicated. Y MAR Thankfully, the world has many beaches. From Denmark 5 188 HY B Aruba and Brazil to Sri Lanka and Greece, more than RAP G O 24 countries have set up “digital nomad” programs that T O H welcome working travellers. Where will you go? Source: Henley Passport Index P