New tourist tax and higher transport costs: How Japan is planning to combat overtourism

MSC Cruises has revealed a new and expanded Young and Teen Program across its entire fleet, accompanied by a new MSC Cruises’ original teen music video dedicated to Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve.

The world’s first inland surfing resort is coming to Scotland and will certainly make waves among legions of surf aficionados. Lost Shore Surf Resort opens in the Fall 2024 and will include luxury lodges, unique accommodation pods, restaurants, spa and shopping. But the state-of-the-art Surfing pool is the real highlight.

Candy coloured beach huts, coastal homes of red brick, timber and thatch, smart bakeries and shrieking gulls — you’ll find all of these clustered at end-of-the-road settlements along Suffolk’s coast. It’s a scenic stretch, where several long estuaries slink to the sea through marsh and reeds — havens for birds, otters and seals. But there’s plenty to sustain its human visitors, too, with the area’s sandy soils optimum for breeding pigs, and local meat and charcuterie highly prized. The shores are rich in seaweed, with sea purslane and rock samphire, both brine-loving herbs, used to make Fishers Gin, while, further out, under big skies, fishing boats haul in the bounty from the North Sea, whose cold waters are rich in native lobster, sea bass and skate.

In May 2024, almost 3,000 guests and more than 1,200 crew will set sail from Southampton on the maiden voyage of the Queen Anne, the 249th vessel in the storied history of Cunard Line.

JetBlue is phasing out more than a dozen routes across its network, significantly decreasing connectivity in the northeast.

Die-hard fans of Southwest Airlines (you know who you are) recently got a welcome boost in service. The low-cost airline last week unveiled an expanded flight schedule that includes two dozen entirely new routes—six of them to international destinations in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America—and six pre-existing routes that the airline is bringing back next year.

On Monday, April 8, 2024, there’s a celestial event you might want to mark on your calendar and consider planning a trip around: the last total solar eclipse visible in the Lower 48 for two more decades. Those who have seen the event before know what the hype is about; if you’ve never experienced the wild euphoria of seeing the skies darken as the moon obscures the sun, all the more reason to head to the path of totality, which will stretch from Maine to Texas, on April 8.

With a running time of more than eight hours, Andy Warhol's Empire is generally acknowledged to be the most boring film released in 1965. Four years later, a German artist named Hanne Darboven succeeded in producing a movie that was even more monotonous.

Anchored by the city of Bilbao, the Basque province of Biscay in northern Spain encompasses some of the country’s most beautiful landscapes and one of Spain’s most distinctive cultures. Forest-covered mountains hide alpine cabins and religious sanctuaries where Christianity rubs shoulders with pagan Basque mythology, while the coastline is peppered with coves, caves and islands. The region is also spared the blistering heat of southern Spain and there’s just enough rain to keep the countryside a glittering emerald green. And those who prefer not to fly can reach Biscay easily via the twice-weekly ferry from Portsmouth to Bilbao. 

Visit Sweden launched a new marketing campaign to remind the world to stop mixing up Sweden with Switzerland, the tourism board announced on Tuesday.

Think of New York and an image of the skyscrapers of Manhattan likely comes to mind. The Empire State Building and the Rockefeller Center famously provide high-altitude views over that skyline — but there are other alternatives, whether hanging over the edge of a 100-storey building in Hudson Yards or sitting at a picnic table at a brewery in Brooklyn.

Las Vegas' ginormous new concert venue called the Sphere finally opened in September, and it's attracting everyone from Jeff Bezos to Oprah Winfrey.