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By Rob Hodgetts, CNN (CNN) — From the litany of bad headlines surrounding the world of travel, you could be forgiven thinking it’s been the summer from hell for vacationers. Environmental disasters, aviation industry mishaps and strikes, dirty beaches, soaring temperatures, deluges, price hikes and overcrowding all seem to have conspired to ruin getaways for

By Chris Lau Hong Kong (CNN) –– A promotional video by a state-owned railway in China that asked women to refrain from putting on makeup during train journeys has sparked a fierce backlash and a debate about sexism. On Saturday, the clip by China Railway was the most searched, most read and most debated item

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has wrapped up its deliberations related to sites that are in danger and began adding new sites on Saturday to its prestigious World Heritage List. Sites in Ukraine — the St. Sophia Cathedral and the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery complex, both located in the capital city

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — When Essence Griffin started working as a flight attendant in 2022 she was thrilled. Griffin was in her early 20s and desperate to see the world. The years stuck at home during the pandemic had “lit a fire” inside her. “I really wanted to travel,” she tells CNN Travel.

By Maya Szaniecki, CNN (CNN) — Winter is coming. And for yet another ski resort in France, that means facing up to the reality that there isn’t enough snow to carry on. La Sambuy, a town which runs a family skiing destination near Mont Blanc in the French Alps, has decided to dismantle its ski

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: The family of seven hiking America’s longest trails, a Portuguese wine flood and California’s bid for cannabis cafes, plus airplane transport woes from Atlanta to Bilbao. AWOL at the airport A Swiss International Air Lines plane took off from Zurich this past weekend filled

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome, Italy (CNN) — The Italian city of Venice and its lagoon were not listed on UNESCO’s World Heritage in Danger list during a meeting of the UN agency in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, according to Italy’s culture ministry. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee had warned in July that Italy

CNN By Stefano Pozzebon and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Renowned Colombian artist Fernando Botero, celebrated for his iconic style featuring rotund figures used to convey political critique and satire, has died at the age of 91. The news of his death was confirmed by his daughter, Lina Botero, in an announcement made to various

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Residents and travelers to California can already visit cannabis dispensaries to buy legal weed. They can even consume their purchases on-site, but usually in an environment more akin to a pharmacy than a relaxing hangout. But an Amsterdam-style café experience – complete with coffee and snacks served alongside legal

By Stefano Pozzebon and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Renowned Colombian artist Fernando Botero, celebrated for his iconic style featuring rotund figures used to convey political critique and satire, has died at the age of 91. The news of his death was confirmed by his daughter, Lina Botero, in an announcement made to various Colombian

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — A collection of tombs from Korea’s ancient Gaya confederacy, a Viking age ring fortress in Denmark, an ancient Thai town and a 2,000-year-old earthworks in Ohio are among the contenders for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List this year. Following much deliberation, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and

By Jennifer Henderson, Michelle Watson and Ross Levitt, CNN (CNN) — A United Airlines flight bound for Rome returned to New Jersey just after midnight Thursday “to address a possible loss of cabin pressure,” according to a statement from the airline. Data from the tracking site FlightAware show the plane rapidly descended over about 8

By Nicole Mowbray, CNN London, UK (CNN) — It was billed as Britain’s answer to the Met Gala, and last night’s inaugural “Vogue World” at the Theatre Royal on London’s Drury Lane didn’t disappoint. Stars turned out in force for the extravaganza — organized by US Vogue’s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and British Vogue editor Edward

By Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — Old, round, imperfect and beautiful — that’s how fans of Korean art describe the moon jar, or “dalhangari.” These unassuming, plain white pots have entranced everyone from rapper RM, of K-pop sensation BTS, to philosopher Alain de Botton. The former director of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, Beth McKillop,

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — One day in 2021, Megan Clawson was walking home from a night out when she was inspired to record a video on her phone. “Yo, can you imagine that Henry VIII used to come home steaming to this, and I come home steaming to this?” she said to the

By Issy Ronald and Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — It is an otherworldly scene. A paper nautilus floats on a piece of ocean debris after a volcanic eruption in the Philippines, its orange eye bright against the black water, its parchment-like shell curled in a perfect spiral, with specks of light falling like raindrops on

By Ranjan Pal, CNN Tharangambadi, India (CNN) — In the long history of colonial rule in Asia, the shadow of Denmark does not loom large. It would be fair to say that few Indians and even fewer Danes are aware that this northern European nation had a foothold in India from 1620 to 1845. That foothold

By Zahid Mahmood, Benjamin Brown, James Frater and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN (CNN) — A luxury cruise ship that ran aground off Greenland’s eastern coastline earlier this week has been successfully freed, Denmark’s military Joint Arctic Command said on Thursday. The Ocean Explorer – carrying 206 passengers and crew – ran aground in Alpefjord on Monday.