A months-long peaceful protest movement in Armenia has brought new hope and booming business to its capital, Yerevan. Though a small country of just three million people, Armenia made global waves last spring with its Velvet Revolution – a months-long peaceful protest movement that eventually resulted in the resignation of the long-standing prime minister Serzh Sargsyan and election […]

The Center City hotel boasts a rooftop bar and luxury spa. Cost: Rates starting at $249. Drive time: 30 minutes. The scoop: You couldn’t choose a more convenient home base for enjoying Center City’s July 4 festivities than the Logan. Located in the arts district just steps away from the Franklin Institute, the former Four Seasons is now […]

Chinook Wawa was once spoken by more than 100,000 people, from Alaska to the California border, for more than 100 years. Even before I saw the water, I heard the rumble. Sounding like a river or a waterfall, the noise was gently muffled by the sword ferns and step moss as it reverberated through the […]

GOOGLE MAPS Street View has captured a young woman in her bikini attempting to sunbathe in Canada. The position she has chosen is rather odd. Google Maps Street View caught the young woman sunbathing during a particularly sunny day in Canada. She was wearing a simple orange bikini with her arms above her head. Laying on […]

Located in Manhattan, this hotel offers easy access to the city’s hottest neighborhoods. Cost: Rooms $349, suites $599. Drive time: 2 hours, 30 minutes. The scoop: Though it just opened last June as the totally refurbished and newly named James, this distinctively designed Beaux Arts building has been a hospitality landmark in Manhattan’s North Madison Square (NoMad) Historic […]

The battered Hawaiian Islands have managed to keep tourism dollars coming in despite an ongoing volcanic eruption, earthquakes, hurricanes and flooding, according to figures released Thursday. Hawaii’s 2018 woes began with flooding on Kauai in April, followed by earthquakes and eruptions of lava and volcanic gases caused by the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii Island. The […]

The province of Südtirol is a place of legends, jagged peaks, changing skies and a famous ancient iceman. Our columnist, Jada Yuan, is visiting each destination on our 52 Places to Go in 2018 list. This dispatch brings her to Südtirol; it took the No. 50 spot on the list and is the 36th stop on Jada’s itinerary. […]

There are many simple and affordable ways you can travel in Hawaii while being considerate to the environment. Think being a “green tourist” means camping in the wilderness? Not necessarily. There are many simple and affordable ways you can travel responsibly, with as little impact to the environment as possible. Ecotourism—or green travel—is becoming increasingly […]

Sometimes our beautiful world seems like a scary place. The news that we are drip-fed through our devices often paints a biased and disproportionally terrifying picture. Technologically, we are more connected, but in many ways more isolated than ever. Instead of using interconnectedness to seek out data that broadens our knowledge and understanding, too often […]

On the facade of the Ministry of Justice in Paris, just below a ground-floor window, is a marble shelf engraved with a horizontal line and the word ‘MÈTRE’. It is hardly noticeable in the grand Place Vendôme: in fact, out of all the tourists in the square, I was the only person to stop and […]