In the last few years, the biggest buzzword in travel has been overtourism, used to decry the way that some popular destinations have become too popular. But now the pendulum is swinging in the other direction as a result of the novel coronavirus.
Amid an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday recommended that airlines continue to follow "routine operating procedures" for cleaning aircraft unless an ill passenger is onboard -- including those with fever, cough or difficulty breathing.
His ship may have been to hell and back, becoming a floating coronavirus-infected prison for passengers quarantined at port in Japan, but when the captain of the Diamond Princess cruise ship became the last person aboard to finally step onto dry land, he looked entirely unruffled by the experience.
In the little more than 100 years of commercial air travel, thousands of airlines have come and gone as casualties of oil prices, politics, mismanagement or financial loss.
A mother and daughter appeared in a UK court Tuesday charged with assaulting an airline captain and refusing his orders on board a flight from Zurich to London.
At Le Bon Marché department store in Paris, which was founded in 1852 and holds the title of the oldest and longest-running department store in the world, Aristide and Marguerite Boucicaut pioneered retail concepts many probably take for granted.
It's the biggest sporting event in the world, but do the Olympic Games really offer a tourism transformation, or just leave cities saddled with disused venues? CNN Travel looks into the phenomenon.
More than 120 people quarantined in Texas after a coronavirus outbreak aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama, Japan, have completed their 14-day confinement and were being released Tuesday, local and federal officials said.
Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway uses Audio-Animatronics figures and projection-mapping to bring the adventures of these friends to life at Walt Disney World in Florida.
As new cases of novel coronavirus are growing, the travel industry is feeling the impact -- with vacationers and business people debating whether or not to cancel or postpone trips, and some countries, including the US, implementing travel restrictions.
Hidden away in a dead-end alley, a skeleton perches on a bar stool with a wine glass and a cigarette. Grinning vacantly, he leans against a wall emblazoned with a quote from Franz Kafka: "There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us."
Just a 30-minute flight from Tokyo, lies the beautiful Niijima island. We head there to ride the waves with one of Japan's most famous professional surfers.
