Travel in Greenland

If a cruise is on your bucket list, now is the time to book one at a bargain.Princess Cruises has just announced deep discounts as part of its Black Friday/Cyber Monday special. Between now and Thursday November 20, prices will be 50 percent off. The special offer includes all fare types even packages such as Princess Plus and Princess Premiere, which come with amenities like WiFi, beverages, desserts, fitness classes, crew gratuities, and more.In addition to the Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals, the cruise line is also offering a limited-time offer that will last until December 12 through which travelers get 50 percent off cruise fares and 50 percent off deposits on voyages of 45 days or less.Princess Cruises sails to a long list of popular destinations including the Mediterranean, Alaska, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, the Caribbean, Panama Canal, Mexico, Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti, California Coast, Northern Europe, British Isles, Greenland, South America. Princess also offers World Cruises.Here are the key details to know if you hope to score a Princess Cruise at a discount:

If you’ve ever taken a photo out the airplane window to brag to the folks back home that you just flew over, say, Greenland or the Grand Canyon or a particularly cool-shaped cloud, you may have noticed that there’s always a pesky pinprick of a hole at the bottom of your shot. Before you panic, yes, that hole is very much supposed to be there. Like every other inch of a commercial airplane, the window’s “bleed hole,” as it’s called, is a highly engineered and functional design detail—and it has come a long way over the past century of aviation design history. Long story short: It’s all about pressure.

Five of the best adventure travel companies around have just released a fresh crop of adventure trips for 2024. Some of them are staking out a claim to fairly untrammeled places—Cape Verde, for example. Others are rethinking wilderness trips in North America. As popular destinations continue seeing more visitors to the point of overcrowding, these trips promise a respite far from the madding crowd.

For years, expedition cruising has been defined in the cruise world as a type of cruising that involves traveling to the most remote places in the world on small, hardy vessels that carry their own landing craft.

Five destinations in Europe are among the top ten sustainable places to travel to in 2024, according to Lonely Planet.

Secret Atlas has announced the launch of MV Vikingfjord, sailing to Svalbard and East Greenland in 2024.

In the heart of the North Atlantic, the land of fire and ice draws curious travelers from across the globe. Volcanic landscapes, natural geysers, and cascading waterfalls call adventurers to dive into Iceland's raw and largely untouched beauty.

“Hello, Jennifer! This is Mr. Quickly,” I heard a voice excitedly shout through my phone. “Turn the boat around. The whales are here!”

As tourism professionals convene in Reykjavik for the Nordic region's most significant travel fair, Visit Greenland, representing Greenland's tourism sector, has introduced a collective commitment to promote more sustainable and responsible tourism development. This shared commitment marks the initial phase in the process of certifying Greenland's tourism industry.

Here’s a look at some of the many incredible travel opportunities in the Nordics that are available to visitors in the winter months ahead. 

Greenland, the world’s largest island, is a country of wild extremes: uninhabitable wilderness at its core, and delightfully warm and charming people living in harmony with it. Climbers come to scale its spectacular sheer rock faces, scientists come to see what the melting ice can tell us of the planet’s future, and many visitors come away with a whole new perspective on life.

United Airlines passengers en route from San Francisco to Tel Aviv endured a 14-hour "flight to nowhere" after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on Saturday.

Italy is planning for possible evacuations from a super volcano near Naples.

From thousands of drone, underwater and coastal images submitted by the world’s best ocean photographers, Ocean Photographer of the Year 2023 has announced the overall and the different category winners of its prestigious awards.

The leading global innovator in providing polar explorations, Quark Expeditions is challenging adventuresome travelers to boldly remake their bucket lists, looking beyond the larger public’s most common and overly-popular travel destinations.

ITB Asia, Asia’s leading travel trade show, is pleased to announce its top exhibitors for the highly anticipated 16th edition, set to take place from 25 – 27 October 2023 in Singapore.

My first cruise-ship experience was on one of those enormous luxury "big box" ships with thousands of people and it was complete with bad buffet food and very limited excursions. 

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.

Editor’s Note: Monthly Ticket is a CNN Travel series that spotlights some of the most fascinating topics in the travel world. In September, we’re celebrating superlatives as we look at some of the world’s biggest, tallest and most expensive attractions and destinations.

A passenger on board the stuck luxury cruise ship in Greenland told CNN that her biggest fear while stranded for days was that they would run out of alcohol on board. 

A Norwegian cruise ship with 206 people on board has run aground in northwestern Greenland, authorities said Tuesday.