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Japan is open to travel. So why aren't tourists coming back?
Summer 2022 has been dominated by stories about travel mishaps, overcrowding at major destinations and airports and life-threatening heat waves in Europe.
Their job is saving lives. But can these Argentinian doctors revive a whole Italian village?
Mussomeli ins Sicily grabbed headlines when it began selling old buildings for one euro. Now it's tackling a doctor shortage by attracting medics from Argentina. Here's what the new arrivals think of their adopted home.
These airline vouchers will now last forever
Southwest Airlines has removed the expiration date on its vouchers. The move applies to new vouchers as well as those previously issued which have not yet expired.
They met as teenagers on the Grand Canyon. 7 years later they reunited and fell in love
American teenager Carrie and Danish student Kris spent the afternoon together on the Grand Canyon in 2001. They didn't meet again for another seven years, but here's what happened when they reunited.
This company claims its boats can save Venice
Candela boats are electric and run on hydrofoils, minimizing wake. But can they help Venice, where wake from boats is damaging the fragile city?
Take a look at the 'world's only carbon-neutral spaceship'
The space tourism race is now firing on all rockets, but one company is hoping to carve out a niche as "the only carbon-neutral, zero-emission way" to travel to the edge of space.
'Revenge tourism': How summer travel boom is sweeping France
CNN's Jim Bitterman examines France's tourism industry amid a travel resurgence after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Iceland's best geothermal bathing pools
Whatever the weather, Iceland has the perfect bathing spot, thanks to the subterranean volcanic forces that create an endless supply of geothermal water.
NASA's quest to build a 'quiet' supersonic plane
If you've heard a sonic boom recently, you probably remember it. The loud, explosion-like bang -- caused by a plane flying faster than the speed of sound -- can be startling, and even crack windows.
23 of the world's best hiking trails
From a multi-day trek tracing the routes of a Japanese poet, to a classic clamber in the Argentinian Lake District, there are thousands of incredible trails that allow us to get up close to nature.
Eerie abandoned passenger plane sits on floor of Red Sea
Coming across this unexpected shape on the seabed is enough to take your breath away -- so it's a good job you'd probably have a tankful of breaths strapped to your back.
These airports are the world's worst for delays and cancellations this summer
Anyone who's been to an airport recently can see that demand for travel is back in a big way. What's not back with a vengeance are the resources needed to handle the crush of air travelers.
Central Park's Loeb Boathouse to close amid rising costs
One of New York City's best-known venues, Central Park's Loeb Boathouse, will close this fall.
Carnival Cruise Line to pay over $10M in damages after jury finds crew member sexually assaulted a passenger
A Miami-based federal court returned a more than $10.2 million verdict against Carnival Cruise Line in favor of a passenger who claims a former crew member raped her in a storage closet aboard the Carnival Miracle in 2018, court records show.
World's 50 greatest places of 2022, according to TIME magazine
Get your credit card out and your favorite booking platforms at the ready: US magazine and news website TIME has just released its list of the world's 50 greatest places of 2022.
On Italy's steep Amalfi Coast, 'flying' lemon farmers jump among the treetops
Italy's beautiful Amalfi coast is a tourist hotspot, but its unusually acrobatic lemon farmers largely go unnoticed and now their prized fruit and its traditional cultivation methods are under threat.
Two suspects arrested over $1.6M wine heist at Spanish hotel
Spanish police have detained a pair of professional thieves accused of stealing more than $1.6 million worth of wine from a hotel in the south of the country.
World's oldest male giant panda dies at age 35
An An, the world's oldest male giant panda in captivity, died Thursday following health problems at age 35.
Sardinia's '100 Towers Path,' one of Italy's most stunning coastal hikes
Made up of over 1,000 kilometers of mostly oceanfront trails circling the island of Sardinia, the 'Cammino 100 Torri' -- or 100 Towers Path -- might not be Italy's most famous hike, but it's certainly of its most spectacular.
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