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How some Americans landed Italy's hard-to-get working visas

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Also: A Thanksgiving warning for flyers and a smuggler's shocking haul View in Browser 11.23.24 In our roundup of  travel news this week: the world's best cheese of 2024, why the FAA might be slowing down air traffic during Thanksgiving, plus the apparent boom in wealthy Americans seeking a new life abroad.   By Maureen O'Hare   🇮🇹 Villages and visas Chelsea Waite got one of Italy's new digital nomad visas. (Chelsea Waite) The Italian village offering $1 homes to Americans upset by the US election result was one of our top stories on CNN Travel this week.   Like many other places in rural Italy (such as  Sambuca in Sicily), the Sardinian village of Ollolai has an ongoing campaign to persuade outsiders to move there to revive the town's fortunes. Focusing on the US election result is its latest strategy.   Despite all the houses going on offer, working visas to Italy are still very limited. Pro...

The plane poised to shake up transatlantic travel

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Also: Europe's overtourism woes and Japan's convenience store rival View in Browser 11.16.24 In  travel  news this week: crackdowns on overtourism in Florence and Pompeii, new developments in the world of long-haul and ultralong-haul flights, plus the California couple who moved to France, where things did not go as they hoped.   By Maureen O'Hare   ✈️ Launch of the Airbus A321XLR Iberia Airbus A321XLR (Courtesy Airbus) It's slim, it's sleek, it has a third fuel tank, and it's ready to open up unexplored long-haul routes.   It's the new Airbus A321XLR — the XLR   is for "Xtra Long Range" — and it just made its inaugural flight with Spain's Iberia airline on Thursday, with a hop from Madrid to Boston.   Iberia's 182-seat plane is the world's longest-range single-aisle commercial aircraft, with a range of up to 4,700 nautical miles (a little over 5,400 miles).   For c...