Wellness tips

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With global travel restricted during the pandemic, many turned inward, adopting routines centered on diet, exercise, and mindfulness. And even as travel returned, this focus remained. 

Nov 21, 2024 • 8 min read

This essay is the final installment in a series about traveling after confinement. Read more stories here.

For travelers without TSA PreCheck, wearing shoes that easily slide on and off makes navigating airport security checkpoints a tad more efficient. Let’s face it, we’ve all been the passenger with mere minutes to make it to the gate on time, and some footwear just isn’t meant for beating the clock (hiking boots, strappy sandals, most lace-ups). Beyond efficiency, those who have their hands full—traveling with kids comes to mind—or who face mobility challenges may also appreciate this type of travel-friendly shoe.

As wellness tourism continues to flourish in 2025, luxury villa experiences are emerging as ideal settings for transformative yoga retreats. Villas of Distinction offers an exceptional collection of properties that combine natural beauty, tranquil environments, and eco-conscious design—perfect for hosting intimate yoga gatherings.

A report from consultancy RLA Global found that large wellness facilities did not lead to better returns for hotel companies.

Nov 19, 2024 • 9 min read

Wanting to flee at the first sign of heartbreak is a natural reaction. But when it comes to post-breakup escapism, not all destinations are created equally. While many may picture an Eat, Pray, Love-style odyssey of self-discovery once a relationship has ended, it's actually bustling Hong Kong that has been named as the best city to recover from heartbreak.

Visiting Joshua Tree National Park will soon cost more when the popular California spot raises reservation fees.

As we edge closer to the end of each year, we begin to look. What are the best places to go in Europe in 2025? In essence, what are the destinations we’re most looking forward to visiting (and recommending to you, our fellow travelers) for the following 12 months? We always ask our expert contributors from all four corners of the globe to nominate the spots that are on the up—the places that are on their radar thanks to a flock of hotel openings, major cultural moments, new flight routes, or concerted conservation efforts taking root. These nominations make up the Best Places to Go in 2025—the places worthy of your precious annual leave and hard-earned spending money.

This is part of Traveling in Our Bodies, a four-part series that reflects on how women's bodies influence their movement through the world.

A royal treatment on rails is coming to England and Wales.

If you're planning to visit a major city or even want to enjoy a possible staycation, Virgin Red will now let you redeem rewards points for Virgin Hotels. Virgin Hotels currently operates in the following cities: Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Nashville, New Orleans and New York, as well as two U.K. locations, Edinburgh and London.

As a mountain biker, hiker, and snowboarder, having sore, tight legs has become the norm for me. I spend about 15-20 minutes every day stretching, foam rolling, and doing whatever I can to make my legs feel anywhere close to normal, instead of being so tight that I’m limping during my first few steps off the couch.

As an anxious traveler, I arm myself with a toolbox of aids — noise-canceling headphones, meditation apps, and essential oils — to make airports bearable. I fork out for lounge access, too, just so I have a safe corner to retreat and distance myself from crowds of people. But animal therapy at an airport has never occurred to me. It sounds like an oxymoron.

On the first Friday of every month in Richmond, Virginia, the art galleries on Broad Street open to the public so that everyone can celebrate the city’s creatives. That’s one example of how deep the arts run in Richmond, where you’ll also find murals painted on historic brick buildings across town and a variety of museums and monuments honoring the city’s Black culture.

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Before there were seven continents, there were proteas. Related to sycamores and to the sacred lotus, they’re native to what’s now Australia and South America, as well as to South Africa, where they’re most abundant in the Cape Floristic Region, a biodiverse swath of land in the country’s southwest. Wanderers of its peaks, valleys and dunes might miss the Protea nana, also known as the , or “shy flower,” because its bell-shaped blooms advance downward into the brush, but there are plenty of other species to see. (The name “protea” comes from the shape-shifting Greek god Proteus.) There’s the Pink Mink, whose petals are tipped with black hairs; the spiky-soft pincushion protea, with its dome of protruding styles; and the King protea, characterized by an oversize inflorescence featuring a ring of bracts surrounding an orblike grouping of velvety florets.

In the middle of the Nile Delta, about 50 miles north of Cairo, the small town of Shubra Bilulah is encircled by roughly 300 acres of flower farms. The majority of them are growing Jasminum grandiflorum, a lacy vine with delicate white flowers that typically bloom between June and December and yield 90 percent of the country’s jasmine crop: roughly 2,500 tons of blossoms a year. The flowers are handpicked at dawn and then placed in solvent-filled extraction tanks where the liquid is distilled, steamed and cooled overnight before re-emerging as a waxlike paste that’s then shipped to perfumeries around the world.

Vintage-inspired train journeys are some of the most glamorous—and sustainable—ways to travel, from the legendary Seven Stars Kyushu in Japan to South Africa's historic Rovos Rail.