‘I don’t have a budget’: Why people are going into debt to travel
By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — “I see money on holidays like Monopoly money,” says Lisa Fraser. The currently unemployed 30-year-old has been…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — “I see money on holidays like Monopoly money,” says Lisa Fraser. The currently unemployed 30-year-old has been…
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By Karla Cripps and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok (CNN) — Maybe you want to escape the winter months at home, opting instead to take care of your…
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By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — First there was the three-year cruise that never took off. Now, another company aiming to be the first to produce…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — An art historian has identified a missing portrait of King Henry VIII after spotting it on social media.…
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Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Anti-tourism protests have been sweeping across Europe this summer, with demonstrations taking place in the…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — It’s been a tough couple of weeks for travel, with chaos caused by a global IT outage and then…
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CNN By Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — One of the most iconic and romantic trails in the world — Italy’s Via dell’Amore (“Path of…
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By Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — One of the most iconic and romantic trails in the world — Italy’s Via dell’Amore (“Path of Love”)…
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By Louis Mian, CNN (CNN) — A large, pink, inflatable man, created by the Chinese contemporary artist Yue Minjun, has divided opinion in a small…
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — An Irish museum will withdraw a waxwork of singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor just one day after installing it,…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — The organizers of Ukrainian Fashion Week have announced the event’s 55th season in September will take place in…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A 19th-century shipwreck packed with crates of unopened champagne has been found in the depths of the Baltic…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Omaira Gill grew up counting down the days to each Olympic Games. “It was a big deal in our house,” Omaira…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Boarding a sweltering airplane cabin on a hot summer day has never been anyone’s favorite part of a flight, but…
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By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — A photograph of a young girl in a checked green dress against the backdrop of a churned-up sea filled with debris is…
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By Caitlin Chatterton, CNN (CNN) — A man dances on the top-deck of his private yacht, swigging champagne from the bottle, surrounded by…
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By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — The November 1975 shipwreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is probably the most famous one of the Great Lakes, thanks…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — Make sure you’ve got enough pages in your passport, because TIME has just released its list of the…
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Princess Diana’s letters to her family’s former housekeeper are going on sale, providing an “insight” into her life behind closed doors,…
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By Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — Yellowstone National Park’s Biscuit Basin will remain closed for the remainder of the 2024 season following a…
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By Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — Sometimes making a fresh start isn’t all about big plans for the future. It can mean small changes such as…
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By Duarte Mendonca, Kathleen Magramo, Alex Stambaugh and Edward Szekeres, CNN (CNN) — Germany’s busiest airport temporarily suspended flights…
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By Chris Lau and Rinka Tonsho, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Kudos to you if you can speak perfect Japanese and order food at a neighborhood sushi bar in…
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By Dhruv Tikekar, CNN (CNN) — When Simon Carter first laid his eyes on the “Totem Pole,” a 213-foot-tall monolith rising dramatically from…
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By Jack Guy and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — A mosaic from the floor of an ancient Roman villa has been uncovered on the seabed in the…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — When Gigi Hadid stepped onto the “Deadpool & Wolverine” red carpet premiere in New York on Monday, she…
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By Leighton Rowell, CNN (CNN) — If there’s one thing Parisians want tourists to know before millions of people descend on their city for the…
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Delta Air Lines reported “a significant return to operational reliability” on Wednesday after five days of…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — What’s red on the outside, purple on the inside, and grants you access to 195 destinations around the…
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Essay by Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Six little words – mundane to anyone else – electrified me: Boxed Lunch on the Capitol Steps. It was…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — A specific shade of retina-singeing chartreuse has become the defining color of summer 2024. Similar to the text…
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By Christian House, CNN Paris (CNN) — The bodybuilder is causing a stir in Place Vendôme. Prada-clad pedestrians are loitering outside…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — While Japan’s overtourism issues may be causing headaches for local residents, there’s one group that seems to…
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Louis Mian, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of people took to the streets to protest against mass tourism on the island of Mallorca on Sunday as pushback…
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Jessica Small and Erica Hill, CNN Venice, Italy (CNN) — Venice officials have hailed a temporary entrance fee to the…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — In Albania’s capital Tirana, where a spate of new towers will soon transform the skyline, architects have…
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — With his retirement fast approaching, Jim Dolan, from the US, felt as though his future was more or less…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — As the sun baked down on New York City on Tuesday, warming the concrete jungle to temperatures upwards of 80…
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By Forrest Brown and Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: A museum in France gets cheesy, a global IT meltdown snarls…
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Ostia, Italy (CNN) — The Mediterranean Sea may evoke images of luxurious beach holidays, scrumptious seafood meals…
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CNN By CNN Staff (CNN) — Unexpected tech outages have been impacting airlines and airports across the world. Major hotel brands have also…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — While tourists in Barcelona risk being squirted with water pistols, those in the town of Calpe on Spain’s…
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CNN staff (CNN) — Many flights across the world have been delayed or canceled Friday because of a major IT system failure. All flights for US…
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By CNN Staff (CNN) — Unexpected tech outages have been impacting airlines and airports across the world. Major hotel brands have also reported…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — What was your most thrilling first date? In 2016, two young Russians known for their extreme “rooftopping”…
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By Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Imagine this: you need to pick up a package, top up your metro card, grab lunch and take out…
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By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — At first glance, it’s a rather unmarkable, plain-looking, one-story building that sits in an unadorned lot in…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — A lot of habits picked up in the pandemic era have stuck around. For most of us, that means grabbing Ubers…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Gabriele Sewtz is not the kind of person who goes on wellness retreats. The German-born, Brooklyn-based real…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Looking down a street in Daulatpur, a rural village in Punjab, India with a mishmash of eclectic, colorful…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — We’ve seen spray-on hair, a spray-on dress and now — marathon-winning spray-on shoes. Swiss sportswear brand On…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Bar Leone – an Italian cocktail spot in central Hong Kong – has been crowned the best bar in Asia.…
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By Lauren Rapp and Nic F. Anderson, CNN (CNN) — Ninety giant African snails were confiscated by US Customs and Border Protection at the…
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — It wasn’t until he moved near to an airfield in the UK over a decade ago that mechanical engineer…
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By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Move over Lululemon, Berluti and Ralph Lauren. The internet has chosen its new favorite national uniform at the…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — One of America’s most popular exports is illegal in South Korea – Trader Joe’s Everything But the Bagel…
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By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — The Forbidden City was once one of the most powerful places on the planet. In 1420, while Europe was in the…
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By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — India’s most anticipated wedding of the year came to an end on Sunday after a star-studded three-day celebration…
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By Emily Blumenthal, CNN (CNN) — Lord Howe Island has the look of a destination ripe for overtourism, with verdant mountaintops, pristine…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: A beloved former airline is making a brief – and expensive – victory lap, France…
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By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Bears and bison aren’t the only potential hazards when visiting Yellowstone National Park. The area’s thermal…
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CNN By Oscar Holland, Leah Dolan and Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, and Riddhi Doshi on the red carpet (CNN) — After seven months of extravagant…
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By Oscar Holland, Leah Dolan and Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, and Riddhi Doshi on the red carpet (CNN) — After seven months of extravagant pre-wedding…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — A controversial statue by Pakistani-American sculptor Shahzia Sikander — one of a handful of public pieces by the…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Years after they’d broken up, Tom Giuliani found himself thinking about the role of timing in his…
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By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Buckingham Palace’s famous balcony room, where the monarch and other members of the royal family gather on…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Pristine, crisp and all-white — tennis whites have been a tradition dating back centuries. The distinctive…
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By Will Ripley, CNN (CNN) — Even for locals, travel inside the isolated nation officially known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea…
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By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — A museum in Australia has come clean: The Picasso paintings hanging in its women’s restroom were forged by…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — When “Sex and the City” lead Carrie Bradshaw sees Mr. Big step out of a Presbyterian church in Manhattan, she…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — For better or for worse, days-long wedding events have become common in cultures around the world. Between Friday…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — After judges of the world’s first AI beauty pageant unveiled 10 finalists last month, the inaugural Miss AI…
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By Heather Chen and Sooyoung Rhee, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — As the issue of overtourism sweeps cities and countries around the world,…
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By Catherine Nicholls, CNN London (CNN) — “We mostly know classical, but we could give it a shot,” the conductor of the London Symphony…
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By Casey Barber, CNN (CNN) — You know what I love doing in the summer? I’ll give you three things: • Taking road trip vacations• Eating…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — American Helene Sula vividly remembers the first time she discovered tap water was a different ball game in…
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By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — A soaring hotel in Dubai, a space observatory in Cyprus and the control center of a Turkish solar power plant are…
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By Fred He, Alex Stambaugh and Jack Guy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A man was caught trying to smuggle more than 100 live snakes into mainland China…
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By Scott McLean and Umut Sevdi Tangor, CNN Edirne, Turkey (CNN) — Under a pop-up tent on a sunbeaten patch of grass, a shirtless Cengizhan Koca…
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By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Buscalan, Philippines (CNN) — The first sound I heard upon reaching Buscalan was that of heaving and panting. A group…
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By Martha Zhou, CNN Beijing (CNN) — The world’s largest indoor ice and snow theme park has officially opened its doors to the public, giving…
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The Idaho Falls Sidewalk Chalk Festival is looking for artists to color the streets of Downtown and compete for…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Visitors to Copenhagen who engage in environmentally-friendly activities such as litter picking or traveling on public…
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Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — Most people buying cheap houses in Italy are simply attracted by the idea of paying a bargain price for the…
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By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Budget airline HK Express has apologized after two blind passengers alleged its crew removed them…
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By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — In the mood for silkworm satay? Or how about nasi lemak served up with some crispy crickets on the side?…
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By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Two flintlock Gossard pistols once owned by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte have sold at auction for…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — For more than fifty years, athletes competing in the Olympic Games have often been cheered on by either a furry,…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — It was meant to be one of the most advanced aircraft of its era, dispatching the threat of Soviet nuclear bombers…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Protesters in Barcelona have sprayed visitors with water as part of a demonstration against mass tourism.…
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By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Malpensa, Milan’s biggest airport, and the second-busiest in Italy, will be renamed after the country’s…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Have you ever looked at a beautiful little mews house in London and thought “it must be so amazing to live…
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By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — After going missing for more than 50 years, a firearm dating back to the Revolutionary War has been…
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By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Paris’ iconic Moulin Rouge windmill has been fitted with new blades, nearly three months after they fell…
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By Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN Osaka, Japan (CNN) — Let’s be honest. Osaka hasn’t got Tokyo’s mind-bending urban sprawl, where…
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By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: Shark attacks are very rare, but our fascination with them is endless. Also, rough…
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By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — It’s hardly a great tourism slogan. “Britain is grinding to a halt” was the verdict of the UK’s Labour…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Carter Leathers was sitting at a table on the terrace of a boutique hotel in the center of Florence, Italy –…
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By Casey Barber, CNN (CNN) — Home is where you are. Home is where you make it. Home on the range. Home is … in a camper van? Absolutely! When…
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By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — On Good Friday 2017, Wyatt Werneth got a call from his wife, who had gone grocery shopping with their daughter:…
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