Deck chairs, a record for the Öresund Bridge and the world's worst airports.

Today we are travelling to Switzerland for five days of Alpine air, nature experiences and local Swiss food. It will be very exciting, so keep an eye out for our first report tomorrow morning! So far, we don't have anything interesting to tell you about the trip, so we're doing travel news as usual on Mondays. This week, we can tell you what Swedes prefer to read in their deckchairs, that the Öresund Bridge has set a traffic record and about the world's worst airports.

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Swedes read crime novels in the sunbed

A new survey from eBeach.se shows that 48% read more on holiday than at home, while only 2% listen to podcasts. 43% choose crime novels, 25% prefer hot romance novels and a fifth prefer autobiographies. In addition, historical novels and non-fiction books are somewhat surprisingly close behind. Here is the top list of Swedes' favourite authors on holiday:

1. Camilla Läckberg
2. Lars Kepler
3. Leif GW Persson
4. Henning Mankell
5. Mari Jungstedt
6. Jan Guillou
7. Jojo Moyes
8. Martina Haag
9. Jens Lapidus
10. Roslund & Hellström

The Öresund Bridge set a record

A record number of vehicles crossed the Öresund Bridge in July, says the Öresund Bridge Consortium in a press release. In total, the Öresund Bridge had 847,100 crossings in July, an increase of 1.5 per cent compared to last year. This is the third year in a row that a traffic record has been set on the bridge in July. 22 July was also a traffic record for the bridge with 32,000 crossings.

The world's worst airports

The company Airhelp annually ranks airports based on a number of different factors, such as service, punctuality and social media reviews. They have concluded that Kuwait International Airport is the worst airport in the world. Here is the list of the 10 worst airports in the world:

1. Kuwait International Airport
2. London Gatwic
3. Manchester
4. Newark Liberty International
5. Edinburgh
6. Mumbai
7. Dubai International
8. Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International
9. Delhi
10. Los Angeles International

Russia bans anonymous surfing

Vladimir Putin dislikes that the citizens of Russia are surfing the web anonymously using VPN services, and are introducing a banning law that will come into force in a few months. Reporters Without Borders believes the law reduces internet freedom and will affect journalists and the possibility of independent journalism. The new law has already resulted in demonstrations on Russian streets.

New travel emojis?

Booking.com believes that social media is not equipped with the right emojis to show how travellers experience the first day of their holiday. So they have taken the liberty of creating new emojis and launched a campaign appealing to Unicode to start using them.

The most popular additions include a person looking at a map, a person taking a selfie and a person dressed in typical tourist attire. 

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