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(CNN) — There may be a run on toilet rolls and dry pasta, but few shoppers seem to be in a rush to buy plane tickets. Growing anecdotal evidence — if the #emptyplane and #emptyflight hashtags on Twitter and Instagram are a reliable barometer — indicates there’s no shortage of empty airline seats. It’s one

(CNN) — While there’s no doubt that having your vacation interrupted by a fast-spreading virus that’s infected more than 108,000 globally and killed more than 3,800 is a major inconvenience, there are surely worse places to be confined than a luxury Maldives resort. Over the weekend, the Indian Ocean island nation was added to the

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(CNN) — To help visitors log out from the digital world and into the Isle of Man’s natural beauty, the island is testing out an initiative called Phoneboxes, in which visitors lock their phones away for the duration of their trip in return for old-school, analog alternatives. The items travelers receive recall a time before

(CNN) — So your flight’s canceled, but you need to get home or to that important business meeting ASAP. Perhaps you’re just nervous about transiting through a busy airport with other passengers. Most of us are handling coronavirus-related disruption by staying put, but for those in a travel predicament with dollars to burn, there’s an

Christie Elan-Cane was urging the Home Office to allow an “X” gender option, alongside male and female. They had argued the UK’s current passport process is “unacceptable,” and breaches international human rights law. Elan-Cane’s original legal challenge was rejected last year by London’s High Court, and on Tuesday senior judges dismissed the appeal. “I regret

(CNN) — Explosions of pink and purple powder. Rainbow dust tumbling through the air. Faces, hair, hands and clothes rendered in a kaleidoscope of colors. Not even fears about the coronavirus could stop many people from taking to the streets in India to celebrate Holi, one of the world’s most photogenic religious festivals, although some

A number of Ireland’s St. Patrick’s Day parades are being canceled over fears the mass gatherings would contribute to the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said in a news conference today. The St. Patrick’s Day festival in Ireland takes place annually from March 13 to 17. Varadkar, the head of the Irish

(CNN) — Paris perhaps? Or maybe New York, Rome or Tokyo? Naming the world’s greatest gourmet city is the kind of confoundingly simple challenge that foodies could spend all night fighting over. Yet now there is a new candidate for the title, one that until recently few associated with haute cuisine but which has been

(CNN) — 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. Some closures are more memorable than others, such as Pan Am’s fall from grace and the recent collapse of Thomas Cook, but each of these

(CNN) — Who wouldn’t love it if red wine started flowing from their kitchen sink? For a few hours Wednesday, residents of the northern Italian town of Castelvetro realized they could have their Lambrusco not just from bottles — but also from their faucets and shower heads. A malfunction at a local winery Wednesday caused

An earlier version of this story published in 2012. Anchorage, Alaska (CNN) — It’s a competition that brings out some of the toughest, hardiest, most ferociously determined athletes in the world. In fact, most of the competitors in this sport aren’t even human. It’s a race boasting more mileage and fur coats than perhaps any

(CNN) — As passengers aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship off the coast of San Francisco wait for coronavirus test results after the death of a former passenger, it’s hard for some travelers to go ahead with their cruise plans. Princess Cruises, Disney Cruise Line, Carnival Cruise Line and Viking are offering travelers new flexible

Our rivers, lakes, marshes, mangroves and peatlands are home to countless species that can survive nowhere else — from beavers and freshwater turtles to waterfowl and thousands of kinds of fish. They’re also a vital long-term store of carbon, helping protect the world from climate change. “Inland wetlands are the biggest biodiversity hotspot in the

(CNN) — One of Easter Island‘s world-famous moai statues has been destroyed in an accident. A Chilean island resident was arrested on March 1 after his truck — a private vehicle, not a commercial one — crashed into one of the stone figures and badly damaged both it and the ahu, or platform, it was

(CNN) — 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. The recommendations will be updated as more information becomes available,

(CNN) — 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. If it weren’t for

Turks and Caicos Islands (CNN) — You won’t find butler service or a sunset concierge on North Caicos or Middle Caicos. What you will find is powdery sand, blissful quiet and just enough off-beach activity to interest the less languid day tripper. These side-by-side islands are accessible via a 25-minute ferry ride from Providenciales, the

Paris (CNN) — As the cradle of high fashion, Paris gave the world designers like Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior, who in turn gifted the world some of fashion history’s most enduring iconography, including the LBD, or little black dress. But there are two other French figures who don’t get nearly as

As the virus spreads around the world, infecting more than 89,000 people globally, major tourist attractions and events that draw visitors from all over the globe are feeling its effects. On March 1, the Louvre in Paris said it would not open that day or in the coming days following more than 100 confirmed cases