Travel in Taiwan

What makes a food strange? After all, plenty of people shudder at the thought of Scottish favourite haggis, while others wouldn’t touch escargots or frogs’ legs (all of them delicious, by the way).

Jan 13, 2025 • 12 min read

Just before Christmas, I was about halfway through my SAS EuroBonus million-mile challenge that had me traveling for 25 days on 20 flights with 15 different SkyTeam airlines. Along the way, I visited 16 countries in order to earn the ultimate prize: 1 million SAS EuroBonus miles.

Taiwan's digital nomad visa launched on 1 January 2025 as the country seeks to attract more professional talent from overseas.

Taiwan is calling all professional digital nomads.

The Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card and the Capital One Venture X Business are the issuer's two premium travel rewards cards with lounge access. Unfortunately, starting March 1, cardholders will lose access to Plaza Premium lounges, a network of over 250 independently owned lounges worldwide. It's not all doom and gloom, though — most Plaza Premium lounges will still be accessible to cardholders via Priority Pass.

United Airlines is making two noteworthy changes to its network.

Boeing has added another customer to its 777X backlog as the planemaker continues to work toward certification of the long-delayed widebody.

It's been a banner year for air travel, with the busiest-ever Thanksgiving in the United States and an upcoming holiday travel season that's expected to shatter records globally.

If you're considering moving to Asia, a new report can help determine which city would be the top choice.

America's second-busiest airport is getting a new nonstop flight to Taiwan.

Nov 15, 2024 • 9 min read

Orchids are zygomorphic, which means that if you cut the flowers in half from top to bottom, each side is symmetrical, like a human face. It could explain why these blooms — which range from baroque and blowsy to subtle and delicate — inspire particular passion among botanical enthusiasts: In them, we see a reflection of ourselves. That’s especially true in Papua New Guinea, where the scale and diversity of orchids holds a mirror to the country itself, which is home to some 850 distinct languages and about as many tribes. More than 3,800 species of orchids have been identified on the island of New Guinea, the eastern half of which comprises most of Papua New Guinea, but Mary Gerritsen, the president of the California-based Orchid Conservation Alliance and a frequent leader of orchid-spotting trips to Papua New Guinea, estimates that there could be more than a thousand species yet to be documented.

As a frequent cruiser, I've been on a few port-heavy itineraries, but none hit me quite as hard as Norwegian Cruise Line's 13-day Asia cruise last fall.

Would you like to spend more than 130 days exploring Asia, the Pacific and Alaska? Princess Cruises has switched up its previously announced world cruise itinerary to make the voyage more immersive in the Pacific region.

When you've booked a sailing that's 132 days long, what's one more day? Fun — that's what. Holland America Line has redone the back half of its 2026 Grand World Voyage, which is now a day longer than originally scheduled — but for an interesting reason.

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Foreign visitor spending in Japan in the first nine months of this year surpassed 2023’s full-year record of JPY 5.3 trillion ($35 billion).

United Airlines will launch flights in eight brand-new cities next year, marking what the airline called the largest international expansion in its history.

In a move that has aviation circles buzzing, United Airlines announced its biggest international expansion ever, with eight new international cities added for 2025. The new routes span multiple continents and include destinations that are especially difficult to access, such as Senegal, Greenland, Taiwan, and Mongolia.

United Airlines just announced its largest-ever international route expansion for summer 2025—including increased flights to tourist-favorite countries like Spain, Italy, and France and brand new routes to lesser-visited destinations like Mongolia, Greenland, and Senegal.

Japan Airlines is giving free domestic flights to international tourists, making travel to smaller cities and hidden gems far easier.