The car stickers that say, "I'm new round here." Courtesy Tourist Plate

In our travel roundup this week, a Scottish hotel owner has invented “tourist plates” to combat the rise in dangerous crashes on his nation’s roads. Plus, why Google Maps doesn’t work in one of Asia’s most developed countries – and how a government decision in October might change that.

Tourists and road safety

It was a white-knuckle drive through Tenerife that inspired Scottish man Robert Marshall to come up with Tourist Plate , an adhesive sticker travelers can put on their cars to alert other road users that they’re newbies to the area.

“I was completely stressed, I was driving on the opposite side of the road from what I’m used to,” he says. “I couldn’t read the signs, but everybody was tailgating me. I sho

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