Where lunch is vitally important
Lennox Morrison Features correspondent Thinkstock Some of Europe’s biggest businesses have headquarters in Paris. (Credit: Thinkstock) Paris’s reputation as the city of romance has made it the world’s favourite tourist destination for decades. But there’s more to this capital than love. Paris is the beating heart of European business. Its central location in continental Europe […]
How turning ‘likes’ invisible is changing Instagram
Celina Ribeiro Features correspondent Carmen Huter Travel influencer Carmen Huter takes stunning photos from beautiful places. With 132,000 followers she admits she owes much of her success to Instagram (Credit: Carmen Huter) We’re several weeks into Instagram’s new initiative of hiding ‘likes’ to users in certain countries. How have influencers reacted, and does it do […]
What Marie Kondo says about our new era of self-help
Claire Turrell Features correspondent Getty Images Each decade has a break-out self-help star, like today’s current queen of clean. But what exactly is it that makes us embrace them? Marie Kondo is an unlikely guru. The twinkle-toed expert that skips onto our TV screens, rifles through a householder’s drawers and encourages them to squeeze a […]
The granny who gets paid to teach family recipes
Bernadette Young and Jiangxin Jin Features correspondent Yamini Joshi shares her Indian recipes with young people in New York As millennial interest in cooking declines, one cooking school of immigrant grannies is keeping family recipes alive – and getting paid to do it. Yamini Joshi, 66, is an Indian immigrant from Mumbai, now living in […]
Nostalgia marketing is powerful. ‘Nowstalgia’ might be even more compelling.
Leah Carroll Features correspondent Alamy Good Humor recently re-released the Vanilla Viennetta ice cream cake to the US market, which was discontinued in the 90s (Credit: Alamy) Retro products traditionally pop up every few decades. Now, a post-pandemic world is speeding up the nostalgia cycle. The holiday season is always awash with nostalgia: both emotional […]
Setting quota to zero ‘damaging’ to South-West industry
Lucie Fisher & Eve Watson BBC News BBC Mr George said the decision would be “particularly damaging for the small inshore fisherman, because they can’t diversify easily” A decision to set the pollack catch quota to zero will be “damaging” to the fishing industry, those working in South-West England have said. The Department for Environment, […]
New Year Honours for Cumbria mountain rescuer and netball star
BBC Mountain rescuer Penny Kirby said she felt “humbled” to be honoured Penny Kirby, team leader of Wasdale Mountain Rescue, and England star Helen Housby appointed MBEs Others to be honoured in Cumbria include a chef and a swimming coach They are all among those celebrated in the New Year Honours A mountain rescuer with […]
How Japan could reinvent the hotel
Bryan Lufkin Smart use of space and a centuries-old hospitality industry have made Japan’s hotels pop. A new crop of lodging luring millennials might help define Japan’s post-Olympics, Airbnb era. Japan is changing: a rapidly ageing society, a record-breaking influx of visitors from overseas, and more robots than ever. That’s where the country’s young people […]
How the wellness industry is taking over travel
Waldhotel (Credit: Waldhotel) ‘Wellness tourism’ is a growing industry, supported by travellers actively seeking ways to enhance their well-being on the go. Now, major lifestyle brands want a piece of the pie. Feel like waking up in a luxury hotel to a nutrient-rich meal of local cuisine, before scaling a mountain alongside a veteran fitness […]
Why it’s so expensive to eat with a food allergy
Alamy A 2018 UK study showed that gluten-free foods in particular cost on average 159% more than their conventional counterparts (Credit: Alamy) The millions of food allergy sufferers around the world spend more each trip to the grocer’s – even though they don’t have a choice to eat another way. I didn’t realise I’d had […]