Travel

Julia Buckley, CNN As the climate crisis intensifies, the pressure on the aviation industry to cut emissions increases. And now, the industry has taken a step forward, with a successful test flight of a hydrogen-electric engine, which produces no carbon emissions. ZeroAvia’s 19-seater Dornier 228 twin-engine aircraft completed a roughly 10-minute test flight on Thursday

By Lilit Marcus, CNN Paris is a city beloved for fine food, fine art and fine fashion. But a new index from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) also says that Paris is the world’s most powerful city for tourism. The WTTC, a nonprofit travel industry body based in the UK, analyzed tourism data

By Terry Ward, CNN From legendary nightlife hotspots to volcanic outposts far off the continent’s mainland, Europe has islands in spades. But for every Mykonos, Ibiza or Santorini, there’s someplace lesser known and equally lovely to escape to where you can ditch the crowds and get closer to nature. Here are some of the best

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN The year’s off to a dramatic start with storms lashing the United States’ West Coast, a renewed volcanic eruption in Hawaii, and January heat records in Europe that are forcing some ski resorts to close due to a lack of snow. But it’s still looking like a great year to travel.

Julia Buckley, CNN Some people say flying just isn’t glamorous enough. And as airlines battle to cast themselves as the sleekest team in the skies, another brand has heard that complaint. British Airways has unveiled a new uniform — its first in nearly two decades. The airline’s current threads, designed by Julien MacDonald, will be

Bangladesh on Wednesday launched its first metro rail service in the capital Dhaka, with officials and commuters hopeful it will help ease traffic in one of the world’s most densely populated and congested cities.

John Walton, CNN The past 12 months have been an unpredictable time for airlines, with multiple global issues impacting the aviation industry, such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulting in overflight bans, the removal of most travel restrictions, China ending inbound quarantine, Boeing’s 737 MAX delivery catch ups, and more questions about the future of

Ben Jones, CNN While governments prevaricate over climate change measures, millions of travelers worldwide have been voting with their feet and switching to trains as their preferred mode of transport. When you add in historically high motoring costs and unpredictable airline reliability, the incentives for switching to clean, green rail travel are more obvious than

Julia Buckley, CNN The UK: home to tradition, cozy cottages and Christmas movies. What better place to spend the holiday period than in a thatched cottage like in “The Holiday,” or have a romantic airport arrival channeling “Love Actually”? This year could be the perfect time for it, too — the normally mild UK has

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Europe has been winning the tourism game in 2022, says a new report by a UK-based market research company called — no bias intended — Euromonitor. Each year, its annual report compares the attractiveness of 100 cities worldwide across six categories — or “pillars” — including tourism policy and performance, sustainability,

Julia Buckley, CNN Everyone loves a good train ride, and in 2022 the world did rail fanatics proud with new routes, new operators and a new need for speed across the globe. From a night train taking you from Austria to the Italian Riviera to the new semi high-speed line across Laos, from a luxurious

By Lilit Marcus, CNN It already looks like 2023 is going to be a year of “revenge travel,” with people who were cooped up during the pandemic taking the long-overdue dream vacations they’ve been saving up for. However, while most of the world is open again and operating like before, not every attraction survived the

By Forrest Brown, CNN Forget that soda bottle or errant tube of toothpaste. One airline passenger thought it was a dandy idea to place a six-pack of sharp or potentially dangerous items into his carry-on bag at LaGuardia Airport in New York City on Sunday. It was quite the array, totaling three saw blades, one

By Karla Cripps, CNN For the first time in 10 years, there’s now a nonstop flight between North America and the capital of one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations, Thailand. On December 1 at 11 p.m. local time, Air Canada flight AC65 took off from Vancouver International Airport to begin the 15-hour and

By Marnie Hunter, CNN The best new cruise ship of 2022 holds 3,099 guests and 1,506 crew. A 24-hour butler serves its most luxurious suites, and there’s a three-level race track and slides that are 10-stories tall. The award goes to Norwegian Prima, named the best new ship in the Ocean category of the Cruise

Francesca Street, CNN Earlier this year, Gwendolyn Bruhn, 94, traveled from her home on the Hawaiian island of Oahu to the Hawaiian island of Maui to attend her great-granddaughter’s wedding. In the inter-island departure terminal at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, Bruhn came face to face with an unexpected surprise. On the terminal

By Forrest Brown, CNN American travelers — at least those of the cautious variety — might be familiar with the US State Department’s travel advisories. The agency monitors the world for potential trouble and issues warnings from “Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions” to “Level 4: Do Not Travel,” alerting would-be visitors to terrorism threats, war,

Francesca Street, CNN It feels like the summer of travel chaos only just subsided, but the holiday travel season is now upon us, with millions taking to the skies in one of the busiest stretches of the year for travel. Navigating the world of airports and airplanes at this time can be stressful, but if

Julia Buckley, CNN Have you cut down on travel over the past couple of years and are wanting to make up for lost time? Always planned to see more of the US? Take a trip of a lifetime around your home country? Enter Frontier Airlines, and its new unlimited annual flight pass — for just

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN This week in travel: Europe’s most underrated destinations, the world’s spiciest foods and the airlines introducing double beds and high walls in business and first class. The high life American Airlines is dropping first-class seats on international flights in favor of new-and-improved business class suites, and high-altitude, business-class fanciness is also

Sean Cunningham, CNN Online user ratings are great, until you discover they’re fake. Or you remember how your uncle always leaves reviews and his taste is terrible. Travelers want a proper set of standards, which generic hotel star ratings seem to offer. After all, you see, “Five-star hotel” and think, “Must be amazing,” just as

Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN He’s been trekking through wilderness areas around the world for over five decades, and veteran Black explorer J.R. Harris says his thirst for adventure is still as strong as ever. Now aged 78, Harris has visited well over 50 countries on every continent except Antarctica, exploring some of the most remote areas

Ben Jones, CNN High in the Swiss Alps, St Moritz made its name as a place for pushing the boundaries of winter sport. By the time it hosted the second Winter Olympics Games in 1928 its reputation as a playground for wealthy adventurers was already well established. On Saturday, the region continued its long tradition