I went to Venice for the first time. I loved it, but I won't go back due to the massive crowds.

Scotland will be getting its first tourist tax, a levy in Edinburgh, but the local tourism industry is concerned it will make the destination less competitive.

A residential cruise ship that was supposed to travel around the world has been stuck in Northern Ireland for the past three months.

Clarksville, a historic district of Austin, Texas, has lately emerged as a stylish dining and shopping enclave. Among the area’s most compelling new businesses is La Embajada, a design shop housed in a 1923 Craftsman bungalow. Combining the hospitality and interiors expertise of its founder, Raul Cabra — who has designed tableware for some of Mexico City’s most celebrated restaurants, including Rosetta and Pujol — La Embajada presents a refined, regionally diverse selection of Mexico’s artisanal offerings. A series of small rooms display vintage and contemporary furniture, from stately midcentury armchairs and 1970s glass sconces to a minimalist agave fiber rug by the Oaxaca-based textile artist Trine Ellitsgaard. The house is also an actual residence. Cabra often stays in the bedroom up the creaky stairs, and he’s recently made it available for short-term stays (bookings include a daily basket of baked goods from Austin’s Swedish Hill). Guests can purchase the room’s handmade décor, such as a pair of sleek bedside lamps in milky white onyx, a 1960s La Malinche dresser and a bedspread from a Michoacan manufacturer that once supplied Herman Miller. Downstairs, glassware, candles and gifts fill a section modeled after a typical general store in a small Mexican town. But La Embajada’s heart is its inviting kitchen, where visiting chefs cook elaborate meals and staff prepare ice cream and coffee. In another twist, every bespoke detail — including a hammered copper sink, caramel-colored tiles and waxed pine cabinets — can be custom-ordered for one’s own home.

“An unexplored territory….Untouched. Uncharted.” That’s the message in Saudi Arabia’s new global tourism campaign to attract overseas travelers to the kingdom.

When newcomers to Canada, the Italian couple had discovered along Quebec’s country roads the joys of the casse-croûtes, the food shacks that lie dormant in the frozen landscape during winter and then burst to life during the all-too-short warm months.

The night train boom is continuing with a new sleeper across Europe launching in 2025. 

I've been invited to more bachelorette parties than I can count.

With rising temperatures in southern Europe, more and more tourists are flocking to cooler destinations in the north.

Aug 21, 2024 • 10 min read

Rail operator European Sleeper will launch a new route in early 2025, connecting Brussels with Venice, Italy, and providing transportation to other standout cities and ski destinations, including Antwerp, Belgium; Rotterdam and Utrecht in the Netherlands; Munich and Cologne in Germany; Innsbruck, Austria; and Bolzano and Verona in Italy.

The First Roma by The Pavilions Hotels & Resorts has launched the Ultimate Golf Getaway in partnership with Parco di Roma Golf Club. Starting from EUR 2,820++ (approx.. GBP 2,415++), the new three-night experience* seamlessly blends exploration of the Eternal City and its timeless beauty, with exquisite accommodation and time on Parco di Roma’s pristine greens and fairways, complete with views of St Peter’s Dome. 

Aug 20, 2024 • 7 min read