Cultural Heritage
In honor of our veterans, World Footprints shares an intimate conversation with Dr. Betty Moseley Brown — one of the first Black women to join the U.S. Marine Corps. She reflects on breaking barriers, lessons in leadership, and how travel remains her path to transformation. 🎖️✈️
Holiday travel can be joyful and exhausting. Here’s how to manage the crowds, protect your energy and make more room for the people and traditions that matter.
Thanksgiving has always meant family, food and plenty of leftovers. Here are practical ways to waste less while preserving the traditions that make the holiday special.
Music from the bamboo xylophone lingered in my mind as I bit into the crunchy baguette spread with pâté, fresh mint, and basil. The Thu Bon River in Hoi An, Vietnam sailed past my table. It offered a glimpse of daily life as fishermen hauled in the day's last catch, framed by the setting sun.
After a mysterious illness changed his life, Zoltán Alekszi turned a childhood fascination into a Guinness-record heritage mission.
Few destinations truly meet expectations. Medellín, lauded as one of South America’s coolest cities, surely does.
Budapest's thermal baths reveal centuries of Roman, Ottoman and Hungarian history. Explore Széchenyi, Rudas and Lukács, Gellért's restoration, spa etiquette and what to know before visiting.
From Salem and New Orleans to London, Dublin and Transylvania, these Halloween travel experiences combine spooky fun, history and culture with practical health and safety considerations.
In southern Chile, tourism and the Mapuche struggle for ancestral land rights intersect. Leijia Hanrahan examines cultural tourism in Araucanía and Biobío, the risks of treating Indigenous identity as an attraction, and how travelers can make more thoughtful choices about where their money goes.
Heading home for Thanksgiving? From TSA rules and flight delays to travel apps and airline refund rights, here's what you need to know before leaving.
Who gets to tell the stories behind a destination? World Footprints explores Indigenous tourism with consultant Anna Barrera, examining Native American cultural heritage and tourism opportunities beyond gaming. Then author Bijan Bayne takes us to Istanbul, Turkey, where centuries of Byzantine and Ottoman influences have created a city rich in history and cultural traditions.
If you visit Athens, you’ll more than likely stroll through Psirri, one of the oldest districts of this City of Antiquities. The once-edgy neighborhood took its name from the Psirri family, who purchased many plots of land after moving there during the Turkish occupation from Psara, a small island in the northern Aegean Sea.
