A blanket of fog covers the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, top left, in front of the city skyline in San Francisco.Associated Press file What do you do if you…
That’s because “overtourism,” personalization and artificial intelligence rank among the top travel trends of the new year,experts say. And, as in years past, you’ll also pay more to get where…
It’s said to be the longest Nordic skating trail in the United States, offering wintertime entertainment and exercise through a sport that originated in Europe and is popular in Scandinavia.…
A Transportation Security Administration officer works at the entrance to Concourse G at Miami International Airport on Friday. The airport is closing Terminal G this weekend as the federal government…
As of Jan. 1, however, Frontier’s 2,200 flight attendants no longer pool their gratuities. Now it’s every man and woman for themselves, and perhaps one beneficiary will be the harried…
Closure of the vast desert park is set for 8 a.m. Thursday and will allows staff to address sanitation, safety and resource protection issues that have occurred, the National Park…
A Jamestown settlement historical interpreter sews shirts in a re-created fort. The new “Tenacity” exhibition highlights the experiences of little-known women essential to Virginia’s founding.Courtesy of Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Hers is…
A mule train winds its way down the Bright Angel trail at Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. The Grand Canyon is celebrating 100 years as a national park in 2019.…
In this Dec. 9, 1998, file photo, Southwest Airlines President and CEO Herb Kelleher speaks at a news conference at MacArthur Airport in Islip, N.Y.Associated Press file Herb Kelleher did…
A class of eighth-grade students and their chaperones sit in a meadow at Yosemite National Park, Calif., below Yosemite Falls. Some of the West’s iconic national parks are beginning to…
Incentives help guests cut cord to digital devices
Lots of beer. Tupper, who writes guidebooks with his wife, Elaine, says their visit to “la Dotta” was among their all-time favorite vacations. “Bologna kept us fed, watered and engaged.”…
Remnants of Morrison Ranch, homesteaded around 1900, stand near Birch Creek Historic Ranch on a bend of the Owyhee River.Emily Gillespie/The Washington Post At this point, a few miles into…
Italy’s Civil Protection officials said the quake, which struck at 3:19 a.m., was part of a swarm of some 1,000 tremors, most of them barely perceptible, linked to Etna’s volcanic…
The Etna observatory said a swarm of 130 tremors had been recorded by Monday midday, the most powerful registering a magnitude of 4.0. It reported lava flows from the volcano…
That’s probably not an option if you want to learn a language before your next international trip, but there are some new ways to learn key words and phrases before…
In a first for the rental car industry, Hertz is teaming up with Clear, the maker of biometric screening kiosks found at many airports and stadiums. Hertz says the partnership…
A streetcar painted in tribute to Philadelphia runs along the San Francisco waterfront in July.Justin Franz/The Washington Post “I don’t remember the circus,” he says six decades later. “But I…
Australian tourists Wayne Burg and his daughter, Lydia, stand in front of Brooklyn’s federal courthouse in New York where they were viewing the trial of Mexican drug trafficker Joaquin “El…
A new watchdog report has found that U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are searching the electronic devices of travelers more often and did not always follow proper protocol.Associated Press…
Blocking accounts on Facebook or Twitter is common among social media users. But airlines do it, too. Based on interviews with airlines, other travel companies and travelers, as well as…
I am 100 feet deep in a Bahamian sea, finning along a reef wall that plunges like a waterfall of color into the blue depths below. Jacks, parrotfish and dugongs…
Spirit Airlines tops the latest ratings for on-time flights, a stunning turnaround for a discount carrier that consistently ranked as the tardiest airline in America three years ago.Associated Press file…
Summer service to the Windy City will begin June 8
The Delta Queen riverboat is moored at Coolidge Park in 2013 on in downtown Chattanooga, Tenn. President Donald Trump signed legislation last month that will allow the historic 1920s Delta…
At the same time last year, the Sierra snowpack was 47 percent of average, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday. A series of systems starting around Thanksgiving dropped several feet…
The Aviation Consumer Protection Division of the Department of Transportation, which enforces federal consumer protection regulations, has issued only 16 consent orders totaling $1.8 million in civil penalties this year.…
Volunteers hold a “Save The Lighthouse” rally Nov. 10 near the East Point Lighthouse in Maurice River Township, N.J. With even a moderate-term fix likely to cost $3 million or…
But tell friends or co-workers that you’ve been to lunch at the French Embassy or a tango concert at the Embassy of Argentina, and the questions will pour forth: How…
