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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Paige McClanahan |Dmitry Kostyukov
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. A self-guided walking tour explores the French Revolution in the City of Light. Among the sites on the new Parcours Révolution (Revolution Trail) app is the Conciergerie, site of some 4,000 trials of people accused of undermining the nascent republic. June 18, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ETThe City of Light. The Capital of Love. A center of haute couture and haute cuisine.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
clarin.com | Paige McClanahan
Los viajes en tren de pasajeros por Europa siguen expandiéndose con la apertura de una avalancha de rutas nuevas y competencia en rutas clave, entre ellas la línea ferroviaria que pasa por debajo del Canal de la Mancha. Los planes para agilizar el proceso de reservas en toda Europa también podrían hacer que viajar en ferrocarril sea más simple y expeditivo. La Comisión Europea alienta este impulso.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Paige McClanahan
I could quit my job, leave London and move to France to work on a vineyard. My mornings would begin with birdsong and my days would be spent in …
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Paige McClanahan
European passenger rail travel continues to expand, with a flurry of new routes opening and competition heating up on key routes, including on the rail line that runs below the English Channel. Plans to streamline the booking process across Europe could also make rail travel easier and more efficient. The European Commission is encouraging the push.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
clarin.com | Paige McClanahan
Los funcionarios de Florencia (Italia) dieron a conocer un nuevo plan para resolver los problemas del turismo en la ciudad toscana, que lleva más de tres siglos como destino privilegiado para los turistas. El plan de 10 puntos se anunció recientemente, la misma semana en que Florencia recibía una reunión de altos funcionarios de turismo del Grupo de los 7 (Gran Bretaña, Canadá, Francia, Alemania, Italia, Japón y Estados Unidos). La coincidencia no es casual.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Paige McClanahan
A recent Booking.com global survey of 31,000 travelers found that 71 percent of respondents "want to leave the places they visit better than when they arrived." Eighty-three percent said that sustainable travel is important to them. Now, as travelers wake up to the social effects of tourism, travel businesses are responding in kind, helping visitors maximize the positive - and minimize the negative - impacts of their trips.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Paige McClanahan |Ceylan Yeginsu |Elaine Glusac |Christine Chung |Shannon Sims |Julie Weed
The year is shaping up to be a record breaker, with an increasing number of travelers setting out for destinations around the world. Here’s what they can expect.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Paige McClanahan
But the communities of Fogo Island formed a co-operative and asked the Government’s support to build a small shipyard so they could build boats that would allow them to fish farther offshore. And it worked. The people of Fogo Island were not resettled. And they did not starve. In 2013, Cobb drew on that same innovative community spirit in establishing the luxury Fogo Island Inn, which has since earned “three keys” from the Michelin Guide.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Paige McClanahan
Leaders in Florence, Italy, have unveiled a new plan to tackle problems with tourism in the Tuscan city, which has been a prime destination for leisure travelers for more than three centuries. The 10-point plan was announced earlier this week - the same week that Florence is hosting a meeting of high-level tourism officials from the Group of 7 nations (Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States). The timing was not a coincidence.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Paige McClanahan
When Zita Cobb was 10, her hometown almost disappeared. Not just her hometown, but all of the communities on Fogo Island, the island off Newfoundland where Ms. Cobb was born in 1958. The crisis was triggered by the collapse of the near-shore cod fishery, a resource that had sustained her ancestral community since the 17th century. In response, the Newfoundland government proposed to resettle the population to other parts of the province - or somewhere.
