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By Chris Lau, Mai Takiguchi and Minori Konishi, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Japanese hot springs—better known as onsens—are prized for their zen experience, with travelers coming from around the world to lounge in natural pools and bliss out. The country is home to 27,000 natural hot spring sources, but a surge in tourism has left

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — An idyllic turn-of-the-20th-century inn. A Canadian town neighboring Niagara Falls. Two sisters who took a spontaneous chance on a dream. If you’re thinking this sounds like the premise of a Hallmark movie or an early 2000s TV show, you’d be on the right track — in fact, sisters-turned-innkeepers Kristen

Scarlett Harris, CNN (CNN) — Every now and then, a piece of pop culture will capture the perfect storm of talent, story and style to withstand the test of time. One such example is the 1985 comedy-drama “Desperately Seeking Susan,” starring Rosanna Arquette as bored housewife Roberta and Madonna as the titular Susan, an enigmatic

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Several airlines in Asia are tightening rules on carrying lithium batteries on planes following a series of overheating and fire incidents on board. A portable power bank with a lithium battery has been found to be a possible source of a fire that engulfed an Air Busan plane in

Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN Hong Kong/Seoul (CNN) — A Bangkok restaurant has reclaimed the number one spot at the annual Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards. Gaggan, named the best restaurant in Asia in 2025, is known for its boundary-pushing fine-dining experience that serves progressive Indian cuisine with influences from around the world. It was the

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Over the past two decades, the Argentinian photographer Irina Werning has traveled around Latin America with a specific directive in mind: find women — and eventually, men — with the longest hair. Titled “Las Pelilargas,” or “The Long-haired Ones,” the body of work celebrates the shared cultural reverence for

By Aaron Cooper, CNN New York (CNN) — United Airlines is apologizing to a mother who says a flight crew asked her to remove her son from his breathing machine before they could take off. “The way you treated my son when we were attempting to fly home from Tampa to Newark was absolutely ridiculous,”

By Joyce Jiang and Aaron Cooper, CNN Hong Kong/New York (CNN) — A United Airlines Boeing 787 jetliner flying from Los Angeles to Shanghai had to turn around last weekend after it was discovered one of the pilots had taken off without a passport, the airline told CNN in a statement. Flight UA 198 departed

By Blane Bachelor, CNN (CNN) — Some Americans dream of leaving the United States for a new life overseas — an idea that always generates renewed interest at the start of a new presidential administration. However, relocation experts and seasoned expats emphasize that an international move is an enormous, life-altering decision that — as exhilarating

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — TikTok has withdrawn a controversial filter that allowed users to alter their photos to make themselves look heavier. Each AI-filtered video on the app follows the same pattern. It starts with an unedited photo of the user—usually slim—before the “chubby filter” trickles down the screen, altering the subject’s physique,

By Stephy Chung and Aria Chen, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — K-pop band NewJeans played a sold-out show and debuted a new song in Hong Kong on Sunday — just days after a South Korean court upheld an injunction prohibiting the group from carrying out independent musical or commercial activities. But the band’s members then

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Mount Fuji is a UNESCO World heritage site, a world-famous landmark and an icon of Japan. But it has also become a “trash mountain” overcrowded by millions of tourists. To try and bring more balance to this popular tourist attraction, Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures – who share Mount Fuji

By Helen Iatrou, CNN (CNN) — In recent times, the main problem facing Greece’s picturesque island of Santorini has been the crowds of tourists jostling for space among the whitewashed walls of Oia town as they hunt for the best spot for sunset selfies. Then, earlier this year, another problem reared its head — one

By Al Goodman, CNN (CNN) — It was the water pistol shot that echoed around the world. In the summer of 2024, after years of enduring the pressures of overtourism, locals in Barcelona ramped up their protest, with thousands gathering to chant “tourists go home.” But it was a small group armed with toy water

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In this week’s travel roundup, we bring you tourist misbehavior and unruly incidents from March so far, then sweeten that bitter pill with wholesome adventure stories and a tale of love. Air travel worldwide is set to be disrupted for days following a fire near the UK’s Heathrow Airport.

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Kim Haberly’s dark blonde hair hangs behind her shoulders away from her face. Her almond-shaped eyes are faintly ringed by the yellow tone of an almost-healed bruise. There are two thumb-sized divots next to her hairline (barely perceptible until she points it out) from her recent temple lift, a

By Amarachi Orie and Lisa Klaassen, CNN (CNN) — A French restaurant that has held a Michelin star for longer than any other establishment in the world has lost one of its stars. Georges Blanc, in the eastern French commune of Vonnas, was first awarded a star almost a century ago and has boasted three

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Father Giuseppe Pagano is furious. The 65-year-old Augustinian friar and his three fellow monks, who have dedicated their lives to silent prayer inside Florence’s Santo Spirito monastery, are preparing to go into battle over plans to open a luxury retirement home on the site. “We could no longer

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Ever dreamed of a house next door to a ski resort, vineyard or thermal springs? The northern Italian region known as Trentino, or officially the Autonomous Province of Trento, will pay residents of Italy or Italians living abroad to renovate one of the many abandoned houses in the

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — They quit the United States for Spain in 2022, and Laura Hamlin and her husband Allan Amer describe the experience as like leaving a “bad relationship.” According to Laura, originally from New York, struggled to feel at home after moving from New Jersey to Florida in 2012, and the