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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 to Taipei, Budapest and New York in the past year, with no plans of giving up vacations while she looks for a job. “I don’t have a budget. I’ll have a rough

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 business on a laptop from the comfort of your rented Phuket villa as you gaze over the Andaman Sea. Or perhaps you’re ready to step into the ring

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 a round-the-world residential cruise at a reasonable price has delayed departure by two months. Villa Vie Residences was due to depart from Belfast on May 30. But after a

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — An art historian has identified a missing portrait of King Henry VIII after spotting it on social media. British fine art researcher Adam Busiakiewicz was idly scrolling on X when he was stopped in his tracks by a post from somebody he follows. The post was a photograph

Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Anti-tourism protests have been sweeping across Europe this summer, with demonstrations taking place in the Netherlands, Greece, and of course, Spain. In early July, protesters marched through popular tourist areas in the Spanish city of Barcelona spraying unsuspecting visitors with water pistols while chanting “tourists go home. And most recently,

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 “coordinated sabotage” on French railways. So let’s lift the mood with some love stories, tales of Americans making fresh starts abroad and essential etiquette tips for traveling. The course of

By Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — One of the most iconic and romantic trails in the world — Italy’s Via dell’Amore (“Path of Love”) – will reopen Saturday, July 27, after a lengthy refurbishment and an overall investment of more than $24 million, the Italian Tourism Ministry announced Friday. The 900-meter (2,950-foot) panoramic route overlooking

By Louis Mian, CNN (CNN) — A large, pink, inflatable man, created by the Chinese contemporary artist Yue Minjun, has divided opinion in a small town in Wales. The 13-meter- (43-foot-) tall inflatable, which depicts the artist himself laughing, while leaning on all fours on a big, white ball, has been displayed on the front lawn

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — An Irish museum will withdraw a waxwork of singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor just one day after installing it, following a backlash from her family and the public, it told CNN in a statement on Friday. The National Wax Museum Plus in Dublin unveiled the figure of O’Connor on Thursday to

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — The organizers of Ukrainian Fashion Week have announced the event’s 55th season in September will take place in Kyiv — the first time since Russia invaded the country on February 24, 2022. Around 50 brands are scheduled to show via a variety of mediums, from traditional runway shows to

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A 19th-century shipwreck packed with crates of unopened champagne has been found in the depths of the Baltic Sea. The long-forgotten vessel was brimming with bubbly, according to the team of Polish divers who made the discovery off the coast of Sweden. “The whole wreck is loaded to the

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 tells CNN Travel today. “I remember watching with my parents and I used to always think, ‘I’m going to go one day. I’d love to go to the

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 as aviation traffic picks up — generating congestion that keeps planes on the ground for longer — and global heat records keep being broken, overheated airplane cabins could soon

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 the winner of the 2024 Mangrove Photography Awards. Taken by Indian photographer Supratim Bhattacharjee, it shows the aftermath of a cyclone in the Sundarbans, a huge mangrove

By Caitlin Chatterton, CNN (CNN) — A man dances on the top-deck of his private yacht, swigging champagne from the bottle, surrounded by bikini-clad women. He’s heavily fake-tanned, his dark hair is coiffed. But this isn’t a man — it’s Taylor Swift. Back in February 2020, Swift had not yet announced her Eras Tour (now

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — The November 1975 shipwreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is probably the most famous one of the Great Lakes, thanks to Gordon Lightfoot’s hit ballad. But a new discovery is putting another ship – the Margaret A. Muir – on the map. An intrepid team of maritime historians working with

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 world’s 100 greatest places to visit in 2024. From Costa Rica to Koh Samui to the Republic of the Congo, the team of editors at the New York-based news magazine has

By Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Princess Diana’s letters to her family’s former housekeeper are going on sale, providing an “insight” into her life behind closed doors, including wedding preparations to the then-Prince Charles, and details of Prince Harry and Prince William’s childhood relationship. Violet Collison, nicknamed Collie, was the head housekeeper at Park House

By Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — Yellowstone National Park’s Biscuit Basin will remain closed for the remainder of the 2024 season following a hydrothermal explosion Tuesday that launched debris hundreds of feet in the air and damaged the surrounding area, officials with the National Park Service and the US Geological Survey said in a statement