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New Jersey is kicking off its summer shore season. CNBC's Kayla Tausche reports 6 months after Sandy, Seaside Heights is completely rebuilt.
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Seoul is full of untapped customers eager to tie the knot with northern beauties. The GlobalPost reports.
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NEW YORK, Jan 16- Healthy hotels, wellness tourism and the holistic medicine system Ayurveda are expected to be the among the top spa trends in 2013, according to a report that tracks the $73 billion global industry.
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There's an unexpected problem in New Delhi's high-end marriage market - there are too few "quality" men, as a growing pool of young women with unprecedented levels of education are seeking and making matches with educated men from higher socioeconomic groups. The New York Times reports.
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Television now serves as home to programming as ambitious as anything Peter Jackson can put on the screen, with the budgets to prove it. What are some of the most expensive television productions of all time? Read ahead to find out.
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Katherine Webb achieved Internet stardom in a roundabout way, but career coaches say the incident could propel the beauty queen to bigger things.
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As if China and Japan didn't have enough to fight about, the two nations are now squabbling about which nation holds the record for the world's oldest person. The Global Post reports.
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South Korean men spent a whopping $495.4 million on skincare products in 2011, as makeup and cosmetics become more culturally acceptable. The Global Post reports.
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HONG KONG, Jan 9- A $2.5 billion Macau casino planned by MGM China, the Chinese arm of U.S. gambling giant MGM Resorts International, received government approval on Wednesday, sending shares of MGM China to an 18- month high.
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HONG KONG, Jan 9- A new $2.5 billion Macau casino planned by MGM China, the Chinese arm of U.S. gambling giant MGM Resorts, received a boost on Wednesday after the government formally approved the project in its official gazette.
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The wealthy and regimented city-state has enjoyed a windfall of tourism, jobs and revenue since Las Vegas Sands Corp and Genting Singapore Plc opened casino complexes in 2010, in part by linking their licences to how well they develop attractions that are not related to gambling.
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*Obama says Washington brinkmanship undermined confidence. HONOLULU, Jan 5- Fresh from the long legislative fight to prevent a "fiscal cliff" of tax hikes and spending cuts, President Barack Obama warned on Saturday that the United States could not afford further budget showdowns this year or in the future.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 1- President Barack Obama departed the White House on Tuesday to resume his Hawaii vacation shortly after Congress approved legislation that raises taxes on the wealthiest Americans and avoids the "fiscal cliff" of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts. The president left the White House shortly before midnight.
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Yes ladies, you can avoid the financial impact of the "fiscal cliff" – but only if you're good-looking.
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Dec 24- Visitor arrivals in Hong Kong in November rose 18.7 percent from a year earlier to about 4.22 million, data from the Hong Kong Tourism Board showed on Monday. The figure brings cumulative arrivals for the first 11 months of 2012 to about 43.84 million, up 16.1 percent from the same period last year. Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May 18.7 11.9 18.8 20.5 13.8 19.3 12.7.
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TORONTO, Dec 18- Air Canada's new low-cost carrier will begin flying to European and Caribbean vacation spots next year under the name "Rouge", the airline said on Tuesday of the service it hopes will provide a springboard for sustained profitability.
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OTTAWA, Dec 17- Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney did not breach conflict of interest policy by vacationing at the home of a Liberal Party lawmaker, his chief spokesman said on Monday, following a report that the visit occurred while the opposition party was seeking to recruit him.
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The collapse of the family behind the mighty Anheuser-Busch brewing dynasty has remained a mystery. Alex Berenson, Former New York Times reporter, offers insight, on his Kindle single, "The Prince of Beers," which goes behind closed doors with the final heir August Busch IV.
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November video game sales fell 11 percent from the same period in 2011, with blockbuster sales unable to overcome a slide across key categories.
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Dec 6- A record 1 billion people will travel across an international border as a tourist in 2012, according to the World Travel& Tourism Council.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 5- Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, a flamboyant westerner, said he has the law and common sense on his side to prevent a draw-down of Missouri River reservoirs to benefit barge traffic half a continent away.