Lilit Marcus

1 month ago | cnn.com | Lilit Marcus

Historian Nguyen Thanh Tung walks guests through the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi's underground bunker. Carola Frentzen/dpa/picture-alliance/AP CNN  —  Hanoi’s Metropole Hotel sits imposingly on a corner in the city center, bright white with neat black shutters. As guests pull up in front of the French Colonial building, they are greeted by staff members wearing chic silk tunics.

1 month ago | cnn.com | Lilit Marcus

From the street, it doesn’t look like anything special. Most tourists trying to find this UNESCO World Heritage site are usually looking for a grand European classical villa, so they often walk right past what they think is just a typical family home in a quiet Czech neighborhood. But this deceptively humble house is studied by architects and historians around the world.

2 months ago | cnnbrasil.com.br | Lilit Marcus

Muita gente associa os centros de informações turísticas somente a mapas e dicas de onde encontrar um banheiro público por perto. Mas, para Tammy Mermelstein, algumas das melhores memórias de sua recente viagem ao Japão vieram justamente dessas visitas aos guichês de informação. Moradora de Houston e mãe de dois filhos, Tammy passou mais de um ano planejando a viagem de três semanas em família ao Japão.

2 months ago | cnn.com | Lilit Marcus

The Motel Inn, formerly the Milestone Mo-Tel, closed in 1991. A few original structures remain. Ian Dagnall/Alamy CNN  —  This week in travel news: the original “motor hotel” sits abandoned, the world’s busiest airports are ranked, and how to move abroad without messing it up. Birth of the motel Hotels and guesthouses have existed for centuries.

2 months ago | amp.cnn.com | Lilit Marcus

Don’t write an obituary for tourist info offices just yet. In Asia, these centers are thriving – and not just because people need directions. In Japan and Korea, these offices are tourist attractions in their own right.