Emma Raducanu reveals her ultimate travel tips for the destinations she’s visited as a tennis pro

Here are some great travel tips.

British professional tennis player Emma Raducanu has revealed her recommendations to help feel a sense of belonging abroad, reflecting on her own experiences of traveling around the world for work.

In a new video, the sportswoman, 20, recommends trying a “flagelhorn” in New York, noting, “I didn’t know what it was, but it’s just a crushed bagel.”

She also shares her top tip for staying in the “futuristic” city of Dubai — make sure you have access to air conditioning, she says. “That’s a big one for me,” she adds.

While staying in Melbourne, she recommends checking out the city’s street art and graffiti, while food culture takes center stage in Singapore, with Emma revealing: ‘My personal favorite [dish there] is black pepper crab.’

Emma recommends trying a ‘flagelhorn’ in New York, noting, ‘I didn’t know what it was, but it’s just a crushed bagel’

Her tips for time spent in London? Emma says: ‘If you’ve just arrived in London and want to feel like you belong, I’d say [interact] with the local population.

“They may look like they’re in a hurry, especially around the train stations… involved.”

The tennis star also shares her recommendations for a trip to the Chinese city of Shenyang, where her mother’s family is from.

She admits she loves the city’s underground market stalls, where you can buy everything from purses to hair clips and hairbrushes. Emma reveals that you can also negotiate with the exhibitors and teaches viewers how to say “can I get a deal” in Mandarin.

In making the video, Emma reflected on her own experiences traveling the world for her work. She is pictured above in New York

Emma recommends having access to air conditioning in Dubai. “That’s a big one for me,” she says

If you’re planning to move to Melbourne, Emma suggests checking out the city’s street art

Emma says: ‘If you’ve just arrived in London and want to feel like you belong, I’d say [interact] with the local population

The video was launched as part of Emma’s new collaboration with HSBC at the launch of the Strange exchangea new online resource with insights on moving abroad from celebrities, influencers and HSBC employees.

The bank recently conducted research into the experiences of people living, working or studying abroad and found that it takes an average of eight months for a new international location to feel like home.

The survey of more than 7,000 international citizens also found that more than a quarter (28 percent) of expatriates who traveled alone took more than a year to feel at home, compared to a fifth (21 percent) who traveled alone. loved one traveled to their new location.

The best ways to build a new life abroad are socializing with the locals (32 percent), embracing the local culture (27 percent), and business networking (25 percent).

Emma says the food scene in Singapore, pictured, stands out

The tennis pro enjoys black pepper crab in Singapore, her favorite dish there

The video was launched as part of Emma’s new partnership with HSBC to launch the Unforeign Exchange, an online source of tips on moving abroad. She is pictured above in Singapore

Emma says she loves the underground market stalls in the Chinese city of Shenyang

Emma played in a tennis tournament in Stuttgart, Germany earlier this year

Digital nomads feel settled much faster than solo expats, the study found. More than half (55 percent) of respondents said they felt settled within six months, compared to 45 percent of solo expats.

Gen Zs, meanwhile, are less likely to feel they belong in their new location – only half (56 percent) say they do, compared to three in five (70 percent) respondents aged 35 to 64.

For current and former expats, expectations fell short: more than a fifth (22 percent) feel lonely and the same (22 percent) feel isolated. One in five (20 percent) is homesick, 17 percent does not feel they belong and the same percentage (17 percent) say they have no friends.

The locations where respondents felt they settled the fastest are the UAE and India, where respondents felt they settled ‘almost immediately’ (40 percent and 36 percent, respectively). The workplace plays a key role in both locations, with business networking cited as a key factor helping international citizens settle in (36 percent in the UAE and 22 percent in India).

For more than half (53 percent), pre-arranging important matters – such as arranging their new phone contract or bank account – had a positive impact on their sense of security.