Wellness tips

Several French departments have been placed on orange alert for strong winds and a number of train lines in north-central France are affected.

Last year, open water swimmer Amy Appelhans Gubser became the first person to swim from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands, a craggy, mostly uninhabited archipelago off the Pacific coast that is known for its frigid, shark-infested waters. The 55-year-old fetal cardiology nurse coordinator from Pacifica, California, completed the 29.6-mile distance in 17 hours, three minutes. “It was so foggy that I only knew when it was daylight because the sky was a lighter gray,” she says.

Jan 8, 2025 • 5 min read

As Alaska Airlines is about to become another player in the game of long-haul flights and premium offerings, it's trusting its home base customers to help it rise above the competition.

Frequent flyers will have a new way to earn airline miles without ever leaving the ground. Delta Air Lines recently announced a new partnership with Uber that enables members to earn SkyMiles frequent flyer points on the ridesharing app. The airline made the announcement as part of its keynote event at the Consumer Electronics Show inside of the Sphere Las Vegas.  Riders will soon be able to earn one SkyMile per dollar on UberX rides between an airport, two miles per dollar on premium rides, and three miles per dollar on Uber Reserve rides.

Going for Globalist status with Hyatt this year? Well, you can get a head start on elite night credits by getting out into nature.

Happy New Year! Since many are focused on their health goals this month, we designed a special Saturday edition. Enjoy our best fitness reads to help you keep your wellness resolutions .

Last year, we saw travel return to its pre-pandemic baseline. And given the way tourism seems to be trending now in the direction of off-peak seasons and “off the beaten trail,” it seems like travelers may have learned a thing or two about the pitfalls of over-tourism in recent years. Rome may not have any quiet summers to look forward to anytime soon, but sustainable travel is catching on, and increasingly, so are the options for people who want to be mindful of their impact (and no less stimulated by the new places they visit).

American Airlines confirmed to TPG that one of our favorite Flagship First perks is back — and it's rolling out to Flagship Business, too.

It's high time you took a break that's just for you — a trip to unwind, be present, and savor every moment. According to a new report by retreat booking site BookRetreats, that perfect vacation destination may be a lot closer than you think.

Last March, my daughter and I were headed from Berlin, where she was studying, to Italy for her spring break. Our 8:50 p.m. Ryanair flight to Rome was delayed for several hours and eventually postponed to the next morning at 6 a.m. We were given the address of a hotel and told we would be reimbursed for it, as well as transportation and meals, according to European air passenger protections. The hotel was full, so we found an alternative nearby for 61 euros. As a backup plan in case our flight was canceled, I reserved a second “Flexi Plus” Ryanair flight for the next evening, for $908 total, that would allow us to postpone for a future date as long as we rescheduled up to 2.5 hours before departure. Our original flight did take off at around 9 a.m., so when we finally got to Rome, we tried and tried for two hours to rebook the backup flight for another trip in May on the Ryanair app, but the “confirm changes” button just wouldn’t work. So I got in line for customer service chat — I was number 200 — but the app eventually quit on me. I then called Ryanair, but the agent told me that to reschedule the flight by phone would cost 180 euros. I declined and decided take it up with the airline again — and file for expenses — when I got home. Neither went well. I got what appeared to be an automated (nonsensical) response about the app fiasco. And the reimbursement form Ryanair has online required I submit my bank account information with an IBAN code — which American banks don’t have. When I wrote in to ask about alternatives, what also must have been an automated response ignored what I wrote and directed me back to the same form, twice. I believe Ryanair owes me about 100 euros for the hotel, taxi and meal, plus a flight for two from Berlin to Rome. Can you help?

As of Dec. 16, 2024, Paris and Berlin are linked by a direct high-speed train for the first time. Though the new eight-hour rail service isn't exactly speedy, the launch is part of a push within Europe to reduce short-haul flights in favor of more eco-friendly train options.

Jan 2, 2025 • 11 min read

As Paul O’Neil was tending to his new beehives one day, a family with three young children walked by. 

Every winter, Moncler- and Chanel-clad skiers descend upon St. Moritz for fresh Alpine snow, truffle fondue, and an après-ski scene steeped in excess. Many of the best dressed stay at the venerable Badrutt's Palace, whose founder, Caspar Badrutt, helped establish St. Moritz as a resort town. The hotel reopened for the season with 25 new suites and guest rooms, all outfitted with B&B Italia furniture and Loro Piana upholstery. Look the part by skiing into the plein air Paradiso Mountain Club & Restaurant in a cream down jacket and black fleece-lined boots. Pop a bottle or two of brut, selected from cellar containing more than 30,000 bottles.

This year was marked by a string of anti-tourism protests across Europe.

If there's anywhere to splurge on luxury travel, it's Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Is your New Year's resolution to travel more, but you're in need of a passport? Well, securing the most necessary part of planning a dream international trip may have just gotten a bit easier.

I was recently invited to a festival in Ibiza, the Balearic island known for its turquoise waters, untamed coastlines, and electronic music-fueled parties. But this invite wasn’t to Mike Posner’s Ibiza—the pills would instead be homeopathic ones touting health and wellbeing, and the headliners included biohacker Ben Greenfield, Los Angeles-based trainer Kim Strother, and women’s health and menopausal expert Dr. Jessica Shepard. Hosted at Six Senses Ibiza, a secluded resort on the island’s northern tip, the event blended music, healing practices, and communal experiences. Called Alma (Spanish for “soul”), its themes span psychedelic breath work and sex chats to sound healing and biohacking. “Longevity is a key pillar of what we do,” Alma Festival founder Talana Bestall tells Traveler.

Ski season in the western United States and Canada doesn't look like it did a decade ago. Despite the fact that climate change has made snowfall far less predictable, resorts have never been more crowded. This is partly because so many of the region's best mountains now accept the multi-resort Epic and Ikon passes, making it cost-effective to spend more days at more destinations, and also because the COVID-era uptick in the sport has endured. Long lift lines and packed runs, as well as sold-out slope-adjacent hotels, are now the norm.

A Traveler’s Tale: Actor Alan Cumming on crossing the Atlantic—