Local and national trade groups are expressing concern for tourism after thousands of federal employees with the U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service were fired earlier this month.

Considered as a spiritual, cultural and hygienic practice, bathing in Japan comes with unspoken rules and etiquette. Across ...

With a past that reads like noir fiction and architecture that looks like a movie set, Hot Springs, Arkansas, is hard to resist. In the early 1900s, visitors poured into this US National Park to ...

TANABE, Wakayama Prefecture--An open air riverside hot spring bath, a winter tradition in this western Japan city’s Kawayu Onsen spa resort, is now open. Known as Sennin-buro,” or mountain ...

Considering wild capybaras gather in or around water, it’s no surprise to see capybaras at the zoo enjoying the amenities of a hot springs bath, especially since their native habitat is ...