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By Rob Hodgetts, CNN (CNN) — Travelers are running out of new places to discover, but there could be one treasure hidden in plain sight.…
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By Flo Cornall, CNN (CNN) — Looking at an X-ray film you might spot fractured bones or even floating foreign objects — but hidden within the…
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CNN By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has struck an agreement with Thailand to permanently waive visa requirements for each other’s…
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By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has struck an agreement with Thailand to permanently waive visa requirements for each other’s…
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By Irene Nasser, Mayumi Maruyama and Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — More than 100 flights to and from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport are expected to be…
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Analysis by Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Watching the footage of the Japan Airlines collision at Tokyo’s Haneda airport, it seems miraculous…
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By Fawnia Soo Hoo, CNN (CNN) — For the past decade, Hollywood A-listers, from actors to directors to studio executives, have sought out…
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By Silvia Marchetti, CNN Rome (CNN) — A two-year dig to install a solar power plant near Rome has unearthed an ancient Roman necropolis…
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By Martha Alexander, CNN (CNN) — The first month of the year is traditionally a time of change and resolution. Gym memberships spike, people…
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By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Passengers on a United Airlines flight hoping to travel back in time for New Year’s got off to an unfortunate…
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — You wouldn’t be far off if you guessed Italy or France as the country with more of this year’s “World’s…
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By CNN Travel staff (CNN) — So many places to see in the world. So many people eager to see them. International tourism reached about 90% of…
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Venice has announced it will limit tourist walking groups to 25 people and ban the use of loudspeakers…
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CNN By Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — Dean Jacobowski stands atop the Sydney Opera House as the first glimmer of the day’s summer sun bounces from…
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By Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — Dean Jacobowski stands atop the Sydney Opera House as the first glimmer of the day’s summer sun bounces from the…
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By Niamh Kennedy, CNN London (CNN) — Flooded railway tunnels forced the cancelation of all services on Saturday linking Britain to Europe,…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Since crowds first began gathering in Times Square to commemorate New Year’s Eve over a century ago, it has…
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By Camilla Rzayeva, CNN Nakhchivan (CNN) — Nakhchivan, a landlocked exclave about 260 miles west of Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, has a long…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — It’s the final week of 2023, and here’s the travel news: An island resort is eradicating mosquitoes, a bridge…
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By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Are you ready to go big, bright and bold the last night of the year? If so, these destinations around the world…
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By CNN Travel staff (CNN) — So many places to see in the world. So many people eager to see them. International tourism reached about 90% of…
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By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Spirit Airlines says the person who escorted a child onto the wrong flight last week is no longer working for the…
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By Sandra Song, CNN (CNN) — The sun is setting on the Badlands as Amy Fleischer-Madden squints through her camera’s viewfinder, searching amidst…
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By Blane Bachelor, CNN (CNN) — Following several years of pandemic-induced downturn, the travel sector is not only back, it’s positively…
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By Suyin Haynes, CNN (CNN) — In a 1908 article, British artist, illustrator and costume designer Pamela Colman Smith shared how she thought…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Editor’s Note: This CNN Travel series is, or was, sponsored by the country it highlights. CNN retains full…
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Reuters A stowaway was found alive but in critical condition in the undercarriage bay of an Air Algeria airplane at Paris Orly airport on Thursday…
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By Xiaofei Xu, CNN (CNN) — Aurélien Largeau, chef at the Michelin one-star restaurant La Table d’Aurélien Largeau, left his position on…
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CNN Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — It’s been a stormy tail end to Christmas for the UK and Ireland, as the countries were hit by Storm Gerrit…
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Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — It’s been a stormy tail end to Christmas for the UK and Ireland, as the countries were hit by Storm Gerrit coming…
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By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Firefighters were called to Blackpool Tower, a historic landmark on the northwest coast of England, only to…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Are you part of a matching pyjama family? The twee tradition of Christmas morning coordination has recently become a…
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By Scarlett Conlon, CNN (CNN) — Few could have predicted that one of the most derided sartorial mainstays of the 1980s — a decade that has…
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By John Walton, CNN (CNN) — Passengers will fly in 2024 with airlines that are putting their post-lockdown plans into place. And that includes…
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Amanda Kludt, Special to CNN (CNN) — New Year’s Day is meant for fresh starts. But maybe even more, it’s meant for food. As the new year…
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By Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — What a difference one year can make – as many people who traveled by air during the…
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By Marianna Cerini, CNN Milan, Italy (CNN) — When Italian designer Giacomo Moor was tasked with creating furniture for a school in a slum of…
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Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — For most of us, traveling home for the holidays involves bringing clothes, presents and possibly some food to add to…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Which fashion item is as beloved by members of the royal family as it is by JLo? Or as relevant on the runways of…
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By Chris Dong, CNN (CNN) — The streets of Midtown Manhattan are a frenzied maze of hot dog vendors and taxi cabs; high-end boutiques and…
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By Veronica Lin, CNN (CNN) — A new selfie hotspot called “Kiss Bridge,” where couples can share a romantic moment against the Vietnamese…
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By Suyin Haynes, CNN (CNN) — After spending several days with the Haenyeo, a group of women on South Korea’s Jeju Island renowned for…
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By Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — Sometimes a film location deserves to receive equal billing to its stars. With “Ferrari,” the latest movie by…
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Reuters (CNN) — Visitors to Kenya from across the world will no longer require a visa from January, President William Ruto said on December…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — This year was all about making up for lost time. Following the pandemic, visitors flooded Europe’s biggest…
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CNN By Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — An unaccompanied 6-year-old child flying on Spirit Airlines to visit his grandmother in Fort Myers, Florida,…
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By Tim Curran, CNN (CNN) — When I sent DNA samples to genetic testing services searching for my birth family, I had no idea it would launch me…
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By Alaa Elassar and Dave Alsup, CNN (CNN) — Blizzard warnings have been issued across the Central Plains, threatening Christmas Day travelers…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Ruth Underwood woke up with a start, and realized – to her horror – that she’d fallen asleep on a…
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By Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — Imagine, if you will, the most glorious festive feast, with an oversize turkey, stuffing two ways, holiday…
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By Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — An unaccompanied 6-year-old child flying on Spirit Airlines to visit his grandmother in Fort Myers, Florida, was…
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WINK, FAMILY PHOTOS, CELL PHONE VIDEO, CNN By Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — An unaccompanied 6-year-old child flying on Spirit Airlines to visit…
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By Claudia Colliva, CNN Paris (CNN) — The spire of Notre Dame, crowned by a brand new golden rooster, regained its place in the Paris skyline…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: Holiday journeys get underway despite extreme weather and strike action; a…
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By Heather Chen and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A barren tank with concrete walls and artificial rocks, housed on the lower…
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By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — Amazon’s “recommended” algorithm is a powerful and mysterious force. One moment, it’s showing you Korean…
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By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — It’s enough to give anyone already on edge about how to handle possible flight delays and cancellations yet…
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By Amy Cassidy and Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — A Norwegian cruise ship in the North Sea was disabled Thursday after it lost power. Denmark’s…
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — After a rainy cruise to the Bahamas, some Carnival Sunshine passengers returned to port in Charleston, South…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — When Cathy Poyser heard the announcement that her flight was delayed, her heart sank. It was Christmas Eve,…
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By Jack Guy and Christy Choi, CNN London (CNN) — Two men were arrested in London this weekend, suspected of stealing a new Banksy art…
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By Victoria Woodcock, CNN London, UK (CNN) — In central London, moments away from the crush of Christmas shoppers on a busy street, a portal to…
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By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Advances in laser scanning have transformed how museums research and conserve paintings by mapping the textures,…
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By Farida Zeynalova, CNN (CNN) — For some, home is where the heart is. In Azerbaijan, however, the saying goes, “xalçam harada, yurdum…
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — It’s the peak of holiday travel season. You paid $189 for a yearly Clear membership to breeze…
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By Marianna Cerini, CNN (CNN) — Move over twinkling fir trees and wreaths, eggnog, stockings and the office secret Santa — there’s a new…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Singapore’s Changi is often lauded as the world’s best airport – and it’s also one of the busiest. Travel…
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By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — Nestled between the towering Japanese Alps and the meandering coastline of the Sea of Japan lies one of the…
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A 500-year-old Raphael painting is partially the work of another artist, according to a new…
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One of the world’s most widely used cargo planes completed an entire flight with no one on board for the first…
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They’d always made traveling a priority, and after settling down and having their first child, Courtney and Justin Orgias were keen to keep…
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By Radhika Marya, CNN (CNN) — It was the summer of 1966. The Beatles were in the middle of a tour that had them play five shows in just three…
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CNN By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — One of the world’s most widely used cargo planes completed an entire flight with no one on board for the…
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By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Since the summer solstice back in June, the days have grown steadily shorter and the nights have grown steadily…
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CNN By Radhika Marya, CNN (CNN) — It was the summer of 1966. The Beatles were in the middle of a tour that had them play five shows in just…
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CNN, WMTW By Jennifer Henderson, Caroll Alvarado and Sarah Engel, CNN (CNN) — Passengers on the cruise ship MSC Meraviglia didn’t get the…
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A time capsule is often a small cache of significant items representing a particular moment in history — newspaper clippings, photographs,…
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A five-year dig into the side of Rome’s Palatine Hill yielded treasure last week when archaeologists discovered a deluxe banquet room dating from…
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A man has been charged with theft after allegedly stealing more than $23,000 in cash from three fellow passengers while on a budget flight from…
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By Jennifer Henderson, Caroll Alvarado and Sarah Engel, CNN (CNN) — Passengers on the cruise ship MSC Meraviglia didn’t get the balmy getaway…
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A French court has rejected an appeal by an elderly couple who were paid €150 ($165) for a rare Gabonese mask that later sold for more than €4…
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Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Stripping off from the waist down at a sacred site. Driving a car across a medieval bridge, as fragile as it is…
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Borosilicate glass, mylar film, polyurethane, glass organza, polyamide powder and thermo-plaster…
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In Rembrandt’s enormous 17th-century masterpiece “The Night Watch,” a troupe of Dutch civilian soldiers gathers in a darkened room and prepares…
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It has been a busy year for bookworms. In 2023, literary heavyweights Bret Easton Ellis, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Attwood and Zadie Smith returned to…
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Planes are going to be crowded. Patience will be tried. Some level of aggravation is all but inevitable,…
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Reuters A sleeping cat hugs a fish in a picture seen from the air, picked out in sprouting rainbow seedlings in a rice field in Thailand to…
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A dress worn by Princess Diana in 1985 has sold for a record $1.148 million at auction, 11 times its…
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Goodbye London; hello Italian…
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Squaring our urge to see the world with the need to ease the impact of flights on the planet is now a major concern among top travel…
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In travel news this week: the world’s most attractive city destinations, why fake olive oil is on the rise and the flight-booking hack travelers…
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Festive magic fueled by nostalgia has been credited for the “astonishing” sale of a Christmas tree, “bought for pennies” more than a century…
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Processing times for passport applications are back to pre-pandemic levels, the US State Department announced on…
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By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Renowned British artist Tracey Emin has revealed that she is recovering after her “small intestine nearly…
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By Lilit Marcus and Eric Cheung, CNN (CNN) — A popular photo spot in northern Taiwan is no more. Elephant Trunk Rock collapsed into the sea on…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Every day, thousands of tourists from around the world plan their bucket-list trips to the Great Wall of China.…
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By Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — The Metropolitan Museum of Art will return more than a dozen Southeast Asian sculptures after they were…
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In December last year, after their flight from Orlando to Knoxville was unexpectedly canceled, 13 stranded strangers desperate to reach their…
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Southwest Airlines’ longstanding “customer of size” policy is generating new chatter, thanks to viral…
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The three biggest legacy airlines in the United States say they are gearing up for a longer and larger stretch of Christmas holiday travel while…
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