Starting this year, the city is reducing the number of river cruise ships permitted to dock in its historic center, part of a broader effort to manage over tourism and protect the character of neighborhoods that had grown weary of daily disembarkations. For the hospitality and travel industries, the shift is less a setback than a signal: the next chapter of Dutch river cruising will be written well beyond the capital's canals.

Bangkok’s first jazz room is not a museum piece. It is a working hotel bar that still knows how to pour, play, and make a guest sit a little straighter. The iconic Bamboo Bar at the exotic Bangkok Mandarin Oriental has had many a story written about it, but it’s always worthy of another. There are hotel bars that trade on a famous address, and there are hotel bars that earned the address. The Bamboo Bar, tucked into the River Wing of Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok, belongs to the second group. It...

In the heart of Maritime Greenwich, a UNESCO World Heritage Site where the old tea clipper ship, the Cutty Sark, rests just a two-minute walk away, and Sir Christopher Wren’s monumental Baroque buildings frame the Thames, stands a venue that quietly bridges centuries of British naval and brewing heritage with contemporary hospitality is The Old Brewery.