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By Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — Could you survive a vacation without your mobile phone, resisting the compulsion to check emails, make a call, post a tweet or rely on the power of the all-mighty internet to get around in a foreign country? Imagine not knowing how to tell the waiter what dish you want

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — There’s nothing quite like a festive market to bring out the Christmas spirit in people. While these events can be traced back to Vienna – the city’s first recorded December market was in 1298 – the tradition has spread across the world over the centuries. From Germany, to Switzerland,

By Ben Jones, CNN (CNN) — Night trains have been making a resurgence across Europe after decades of decline, raising the prospect of more sustainable ways of crisscrossing the continent as travelers look to find alternatives to flying. There’s nothing quite like an overnight train. The excitement before an evening departure. The sense of adventure.

By Jessie Lau, CNN London, UK (CNN) — In an 1861 painting commissioned by the British monarch Queen Victoria, a brown and white Pekingese sits demurely on a cushion in front of a Japanese vase, gazing into the distance. Admired for her adorably smushed snout and leonine features, she was a new addition to the

Story by Maureen O’Hare, video by Max Burnell, CNN Drumnadrochit, Scotland (CNN) — It’s not the volume of water in Loch Ness that impresses, although that’s substantial. It is, after all, 23 miles long with steep walls that plunge into a 754-foot abyss deep enough to submerge Edinburgh Castle twice over. It’s the unsettling darkness

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — More than a billion Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists around the world are celebrating Diwali, the festival of lights. Diwali, also called Deepavali, is one of the biggest festivals in India. It’s also widely celebrated in Nepal, Malaysia, Fiji and other countries with large South Asian diasporas. Homes, businesses

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: smart alternatives to the world’s top tourism destinations, the Michelin restaurant that closed because it was too expensive and the plane that reached 14,000 feet after taking off with missing windows. Destination inspiration Travel tech company Expedia has announced its list of 2024 “destination

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — In 1977, Jo Ann Callis took a photograph of a woman’s head thrown back, her neck taut and tied with a bow looped together from the thin baby blue straps of her white lace dress. It’s an image that beckons a long look, as the tension heightens in its

Reuters (Reuters) — Chinese carrier China Southern Airlines said on Thursday it would honor the sale of tickets priced as cheaply as $1.30 during a two-hour technical glitch on its mobile phone app and some ticket-booking platforms late on Wednesday. Consumers began reporting on Chinese social media at around 8 p.m. on Wednesday that many flights

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Italian fashion designer Davide Renne, Moschino’s new creative director, has died aged 46, according to a press release issued by the brand’s parent company Aeffe SpA. Renne’s appointment as the new creative director of Moschino was announced on October 16. He had started his role at the luxury fashion

By John Walton, CNN (CNN) — For the last half-decade, the ultimate innovation in business class has been privacy. Passengers overwhelmingly tell airlines they want it, and airlines — working with the designers and seatmakers who create their seats — are delivering it in the form of sliding doors that create the latest kind of business

By Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — The owner of Miss Universe, JKN Global Group, has confirmed that next week’s pageant will go ahead, despite the Thai firm filing for bankruptcy. The media distribution company, which bought the Miss Universe Organization for $20 million in 2022, announced on Thursday that it had submitted a petition for

By Arya Jyothi, CNN (CNN) — When you think of Dubai, you might picture its iconic skyline and breathtaking architecture. Now, a group of architects and designers is embracing sustainable innovation to create installations that are only a fraction of the size of the city’s soaring towers, but no less inspired. Among them, Dubai-based Syrian

Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — While she may be promoting her forthcoming studio album “Pink Friday 2,” Nicki Minaj is on the cover of Vogue in cream — a delicately draped Valentino couture gown, that is. Minaj has previously been featured on the covers of the Arabian and Japanese editions of Vogue (in 2018 and

By Marnie Hunter and Paula Newton, CNN (CNN) — Air Canada apologized on Thursday to customers with disabilities who were not met with “convenient and consistent service.” The apology came after a passenger who uses a wheelchair made international headlines when he shared his experience of dragging himself off a flight. That incident, which happened in

By Amarachi Orie, CNN London (CNN) — After more than half a century, the identity of the elderly, stick-carrying man featured on the “Led Zeppelin IV” album cover has finally been revealed. The “Stick Man” who featured on the cover of English rock band Led Zeppelin’s 1971 fourth studio album was a thatcher from the late-Victorian

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — An Airbus A321 aircraft took off from London Stansted Airport last month with four damaged window panes, including two that were missing, according to UK air accident investigators. Nine passengers and 11 crew members were on board the plane bound for Orlando International Airport in Florida on October 4,