Yayoi Kusama’s yellow pumpkin is back on Naoshima Island, Japan

Yayoi Kusama’s yellow pumpkin is back on Naoshima Island, Japan

(CNN) — Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s famous yellow pumpkin sculpture was reinstalled on October 4th on Naoshima island after it was swept into the sea and badly damaged during a typhoon last summer. Local residents, students and officials gathered to celebrate the art island’s trademark sculpture as it was placed back on the pier on…

She fell in love with her tour guide. Two weeks later they were engaged

She fell in love with her tour guide. Two weeks later they were engaged

CNN  —  Rachel Décoste landed in West Africa’s Republic of Benin in August 2018, anticipating an important journey of self-discovery, but not predicting the extent to which the trip would change her life. On her first day exploring Benin, Rachel asked a passerby for directions. Two weeks later, Rachel and the stranger were engaged. Within…

Business of Leisure & Components of Leisure Travel and Motivation

Leisure is the time available to the individual when work, sleep and other needs have been met. Leisure as a construct involves a number of dimensions. · Absorption and concentration of ongoing experience · Lessening of focus on self · Feelings of freedom and lack of restraint · Enriched perception of objects and events ·…

Secrets from the man behind Hong Kong’s most popular restaurants

Secrets from the man behind Hong Kong’s most popular restaurants

(CNN) — Hong Kong is widely considered one of the most challenging cities in the world to operate a restaurant — a roiling cauldron of changing tastes, cleaver-sharp competition and unsavory economics. Right at the heart of its culinary world, with connections to at least half of its hottest tables, is publicist Geoffrey Wu. Wu…

Famous shipwrecks that remain missing — and a few that have been found

Famous shipwrecks that remain missing — and a few that have been found

Editor’s Note — Monthly Ticket is a CNN Travel series that spotlights some of the most fascinating topics in the travel world. In October, we shift our focus to the offbeat, highlighting everything from (allegedly) haunted spaces to abandoned places. (CNN) — In March 2022, the world let out a collective gasp when the remarkably…

Virgin Boeing 747 to launch rocket into space

Virgin Boeing 747 to launch rocket into space

(CNN) — At the far southwestern tip of England, dangling into the Atlantic, the remote region of Cornwall rarely feels like the center of the world. But recently locals have been feeling tantalizingly close as they’ve watched a very special plane fly low overhead, taking off from the runway at little Newquay Airport — the…

Limone sul Garda, Italy’s village with a health ‘elixir’

Limone sul Garda, Italy’s village with a health ‘elixir’

(CNN) — It’s a place of terraced lemon groves, a paradoxically warm mountain breeze, and a powerful fat-killing gene carried by a few lucky residents. Limone sul Garda, a picturesque fishing village set on the shores of Lake Garda in Italy’s northern Lombardy region, is an unusual destination of barely 1,000 residents. It is the…