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Early one Saturday morning in April, I find myself beneath a dense tree canopy in Maui's Honōkowai Valley. The air is still. Sparrows and mynahs chirp cheerfully. A wild pig, one of thousands that roam the mountain ranges of the Hawaiian Islands, darts in front of me. It's hard to believe that the crush of resorts along Ka‘anapali Beach, on Maui's western shore, are just a few miles away.

Tourism is an important part of life in Alaska. In fact, last year, tourism brought in nearly $158 million in revenue for the state.

Recently, I walked through Paris to meet a friend on the Rive Gauche. On the hour-long route from my home in Montmartre, I popped in for a croissant at a favorite boulangerie, skirted around the Palais Royal, passed the pyramid of the Louvre, crossed the Seine. Post-coffee, the walk home unfolded in reverse. I ran a few errands as I got closer to my apartment: greens and radishes at our neighborhood épicerie, a crusty and warm baguette at another boulangerie, a bottle of sparkling wine at the caviste. Pausing briefly to adjust my grip on the bags at the base of the stairs leading up to the Sacre-Cœur, I made the inevitable climb up.

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.

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.

This story about breakdancing 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.

Last winter my daughter became interested in gymnastics . She watched tutorials on YouTube and practiced moves herself while I hoped her interest might wane. Instead, it intensified, and all she wanted for her sixth birthday was gymnastics lessons. The only problem was that the nearest gymnastics studio was 43 minutes from our house.

About a year before starting a family, my husband and I applied for permanent New Zealand residency because we wanted to raise our future child in the United States and New Zealand.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jennison Grigsby, an American mom and yoga teacher who lives in Valencia, Spain. It's been edited for length and clarity.

New Orleans is a city that's synonymous with incredible food and it's gearing up for its 20th annual COOLinary New Orleans event!

Culinary Institute of the Pacific and Culinary Institute of America launch a joint program in Hawai‘i, focusing on local ingredients and advanced culinary techniques.

Aberdeen International Airport’s ABZ Propeller Fund has allocated half of its £30,000 to support 12 projects, with the remainder available for future applicants.

The readers of Condé Nast Traveler Spain have spoken: Spain’s best beach for 2024 is Zarautz, in the Basque Country. It is followed by Famara, on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, and Cala Saona, on Fomentera, one of the Balearic Islands.

Swing by Klitmøller beach in northwestern Denmark on any given day and the gray ocean will be dotted with surfers and kiteboarders in wet suits. So good are the waves along the windswept coastline stretching between the towns of Nørre Vorupør and Hanstholm that in recent years the area has come to be known as Cold Hawaii.

Each summer, huge crowds of travelers flock to America's National Parks to experience pristine landscapes and marvel at natural wonders like Old Faithful, El Capitán, Horseshoe Bend, and the Grand Canyon.

The Social Hub unveils a new hotel room design focused on creating intimate, stylish spaces, enhancing guest experiences across Europe with premium rooms now available in Amsterdam.

Before the Dyke March takes its first steps out of Bryant Park this Saturday and the NYC Pride Parade floats through lower Manhattan on Sunday, make sure not to miss the opening of the new Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center (SNMVC) this Friday, sitting just a door down from its iconic namesake bar.

The back windows of Tourists, a renovated 46-room motor lodge that opened in North Adams, Mass., in 2018, overlook 80 acres of Berkshires forest land. Now, a foot trail winds through those woods, connecting the hotel to two neighboring houses in the town’s Blackinton Historic District, a former mill community. Both accommodations — one sleeps up to 11, the other six — were restored for Tourists Homes, a new offshoot that allows larger groups to book individual houses. “As a joke we call them the mullet houses — business in the front, party in the back — because [we preserved the] 1860s fronts but we gave the backs all the benefits of contemporary design,” says Tourists co-founder Ben Svenson. Similar to the company’s original property, both houses embody a retro, chalet-inspired aesthetic (each has a wood-burning stove) and are furnished with bespoke pieces made by local carpenters (the larger house has an oversize round Douglas fir table for family-style dining) and vintage gems curated by the interior designer Julie Pearson (the smaller house comes with an original Rhodes Mark 1 piano). The back decks of both homes offer scenic views of Mount Williams and Mount Prospect. All houseguests get access to the hotel’s pool and community events, including a free concert series featuring visiting musicians who play in exchange for room nights. The two Tourists homes are available to book now (there’s a three-night minimum for the small house, a four-night minimum for the larger), along with a third house, a former five-room B&B, which the Tourists team plans to renovate in the winter.

For much of my childhood in the Berkshires region of western Massachusetts, I didn’t give a hoot about the Housatonic River. In contrast to the many lakes where my brother and I would swim or skate, attend Scout camps or sprawl out for family picnics, the hushed and shaded Housatonic seemed unfamiliar and at times downright eerie. Notions of Edenic riverbanks came from my mom reading “The Wind in the Willows” out loud after dinner — not from encounters with the actual river that flowed 330 yards from our front door.

How to Travel Better is a column with Condé Nast Traveler’s sustainability editor Juliet Kinsman. In this series, Juliet introduces us to the sustainability heroes she meets, signposts the experiences that are enhancing our world, and shares the little and big ways we can all travel better.

Joshua Tree National Park is holding a literal star-studded event in the fall, and tickets are on sale now. The annual Night Sky Festival will take place on Oct. 4 and Oct. 5 at the Sky's The Limit Observatory located on Utah Trail 29 in Palms CA — just .1 miles from Joshua Tree's North Entrance Station.