Travel in city Tokyo

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Games wide open! The Paris 2024 Summer Olympics are here—so, expect to hear the roar of that slogan in the weeks again. There’s simply no way to quantify, or perhaps, prepare for, the already-electrifying energy infiltrating the host city and the largest Olympic ceremony ever. Despite the Games’ 300,000 spectator capacity, Paris is expected to receive around 15 million visitors, including 2 million from abroad, in the coming weeks.

The Olympic Games cast an enormous spotlight on host cities, but that attention doesn’t always result in large numbers of overseas visitors.

Japanese cities like Tokyo and Kyoto, are traditionally known for shrines, temples and historic cultural sites. But as the birthplace of anime, manga and, of course, Pokémon, Japan is also a pop culture powerhouse and a hotbed of kid-friendly activities, from practicing ninja skills to spending time with Snorlax.

I graduated from college two years ago and set a goal for myself to visit at least 50 countries before I turn 30.

Jul 23, 2024 • 9 min read

This story about surfing in Tahiti is part of How Paris Moves, a series of dispatches about communities and social change in France through the lens of the 2024 Summer Olympics. Read more here.

Japan is bracing for a tourism boom like never before. With a record 35 million foreign visitors expected this year and tourism spending projected to hit an unprecedented JPY 8 trillion ($51 billion), the country is seeing a surge driven by a weak yen.

Korean Air is launching a new business-class product — and it's debuting in just a few days.

This story about skateboarding in Paris is part of How Paris Moves, a series of dispatches about communities and social change in France through the lens of the 2024 Summer Olympics.

You could say that I have a public pool habit when I travel. From Reykjavík and Sydney to Phoenix and Palm Springs, Calif., it’s how I eavesdrop on and observe everyday life, wherever I am. Early one morning last summer in Tokyo, I entered the lobby of a sports complex in the Shimokitazawa neighborhood, joined the orderly queue of seniors, and enthusiastically pantomimed my way to a day pass.

Virgin Atlantic is withdrawing from China after 25 years. The last round-trip for the company’s London to Shanghai service will be on October 25. The British airline cited “significant challenges and complexities” for the commercially motivated decision.

Frasers Hospitality, a strategic business unit of Frasers Property, is fortifying its international expansion through collaborations with capital partners and third-party hotel operators that complement its operational excellence within the extended stay segment. This business transformation strengthens the position of Frasers Hospitality as an investor and operator of choice within the long-stay lodging segment.

South Korea has announced the K-pop girl group NewJeans as its tourism ambassador.

Beyoncé background dancer Honey Balenciaga recently told us that she always dresses well when traveling. “I don’t know where that culture died,” she lamented in a recent interview. It’s something that editors at Traveler have long had feelings about—the way we show up to the airport, where parents once forced some of us to don blazers and loafers in order to look presentable. Comfortable clothing has, understandably, proliferated on the scene, in tandem with the tanking of the flying experience’s dignity, and in the past decade the situation has devolved to the point where pajama bottoms, flip flops, and t-shirts with sagging necklines are at least as common as a button-down.

As soon as I arrived in Tokyo to a near-silent Narita Airport, I knew I was in for a bit of culture shock.

Jul 12, 2024 • 6 min read

If we are what we eat, then what does our food say about us, our lives, and our world? In a new docuseries called Omnivore, René Redzepi of Copenhagen's Noma unpacks that question as he travels to learn more about the foods that nourish and define us. “Ingredients do more than feed: they fuel economies, power politics, and unlock hidden truths about who we are and where we are going,” narrates Redzepi at the start of the first episode. That episode is dedicated to chili, and it transports us, in the cinematic richness that executive producer Matt Goulding, of Parts Unknown, is known for—from a tiny village in Serbia where every home is sheathed in curtains of bright red string pepper to the Tabasco factory in Louisiana and the night markets of Bangkok—all the while marveling at the heft of an everyday ingredient that has the power to suspend us between pleasure and pain.

Despite seeing record-breaking travel, many airlines are struggling to turn a profit right now.

Do you call July midsummer or mid-winter? It all depends which side of a major new air route you’re on.  Come July 12, one of the year’s most hotly anticipated new flights will take to the skies for the first time.

The 2024 EASA Annual Safety Review highlights Europe’s aviation safety, noting a 95% traffic recovery to pre-COVID levels and only two fatal accidents in 2023. This report supports ongoing safety enhancements through the European Plan for Aviation Safety.

Tokyo Disneyland's owner is doubling down on the Disney magic with a new investment in cruises.