🍫 The New York Times looks at how French culinary icons and a new generation of award-winning chocolatiers are expanding Paris’s chocolate scene, positioning the city alongside Brussels and Zurich as a global chocolate capital. ✨ Chocolate in Paris is shifting from a luxury

🌍 Travel this year is driven by intention, major moments, and destinations chosen for meaning rather than volume. ✨ Fewer trips, deeper experiences, and highly personalized journeys define the shift. 🔗 Explore the full trend roundup: https://t.co/ghH5hjYBQ1

🏔️ High above the Arctic Circle, this remote Norwegian archipelago offers a rare mix of alpine peaks, deep fjords, sea eagles, backcountry skiing, and coastal hiking — where mountains rise straight from the sea. ✨ With its fishing villages, open huts, wild landscapes and strong

🏔️ High above the Arctic Circle, this remote Norwegian archipelago offers a rare mix of alpine peaks, deep fjords, sea eagles, backcountry skiing, and coastal hiking — where mountains rise straight from the sea. ✨ With its fishing villages, open huts, wild landscapes and strong

🌍 Immersive, sensory experiences are defining travel this year, with a growing focus on nature, craft, wellbeing, and meaningful cultural connection. ✨ Travel moves away from passive sightseeing toward experiences that engage, restore, and leave a lasting impression. 🔗

🏔 As Cortina prepares to co-host the 2026 Winter Olympics, the tiny Alpine town is balancing global attention with centuries-old local traditions. ✨ Between construction sites, sold-out tickets, and rising glamour, residents are navigating how to protect Ladin culture,

🌍 Condé Nast Traveler outlines 18 shifts shaping travel this year — from luxury train hopping and ancestry travel to dry tourism, period-drama set-jetting, and airports reinventing pre-security spaces. ✨ More personal, culture-led travel with everyday local rituals becoming

✈️ The New York Times has released its annual list of 52 places to go, highlighting destinations shaped by culture, nature, renewal, and global moments. 🌍 From major cities and quiet regions to wildlife reserves, islands, historic towns and unexpected landscapes, the list

🌍 Expedia Group’s latest Unpack ’26 research reveals how travel in 2026 will shift toward deeper meaning, local culture, and personalized experiences, not just destinations. Travelers want trips that reflect their values, passions, and curiosity. ✨ Key emerging trends include

✈️ https://t.co/k7BkpGrSk8’s latest outlook frames 2026 as the year of deeply personal travel, moving away from one-size-fits-all itineraries toward trips shaped by individual interests, moods, and milestones. 🌍 From celebrating small life wins and quiet nature hobbies to

🌍 BBC Travel’s latest analysis points to a clear shift in how — and why — people travel next year: quieter escapes, slower journeys, and more intentional experiences. 🌿 From “quietcations” and off-grid stays to AI-planned itineraries, ultra-personalised retreats, road trips

✈️ Airbnb’s latest outlook suggests travelers are rethinking how and why they travel, favoring shorter, more intentional trips rooted in culture, nature, and major global moments. 🌿 Gen Z is driving 1–2 day international city breaks, interest in national parks is surging as

✨ Whether you’re spending the holidays with family, travelling or enjoying a few quieter days, we hope the season brings good company and familiar comforts. 🎄 Wishing you warm moments, easy days and time well spent.

🍞 Often overshadowed by panettone, pandoro is a butter-rich holiday bread from Verona — plain in appearance, but notoriously hard to make. 🥐 With multiple fermentations and no fillings to mask flaws, bakers say pandoro may be even more demanding than panettone — and nearly

🎄 From KFC buckets in Japan and La Befana flying over Italy to midnight feasts in Peru and seafood lunches on Australian beaches, Christmas looks very different around the world. 🌍 Condé Nast Traveller gathers traditions that mix folklore, food, and local ritual, from

🎄 Several European cities are proving that a festive Christmas market trip does not have to be expensive, even when booked at the last minute, with flights and hotels costing far less than Western Europe’s headline destinations. 💡 Vilnius, Riga, Poznan, Bratislava, and

⛷ Lonely Planet’s latest ranking looks past the usual Alpine icons, spotlighting seven European ski destinations that combine scenery, design, value, and long seasons, from the Dolomites to Scandinavia. 🏔 Highlights include Selva di Val Gardena’s UNESCO-listed panoramas, St.

🍽 New York Times food writers share a simple rule for eating well abroad: stop chasing “the best” lists and start following locals, from critics and baristas to market vendors and taxi drivers. 🗺 Save recommendations year-round, avoid restaurants with menu photos in the

❄️ Hyde Park’s Winter Wonderland, Somerset House skating, Christmas markets, Dickens walks, and carol concerts, London turns cold nights into culture. 🍽 Michelin’s inspectors map what to eat around each stop, from elevated pies and Soho Bib Gourmands to Spring, KOL, and

👩‍💻 A.I.-generated avatars like “Radhika” and Qatar Airways’ “Sama” are promoting destinations with lifelike posts — food shots, outfit photos, even captions that pretend lived experience — at a fraction of what human creators cost. ✈️ Brands see control and scale; creators fear