Southwest Life/Travel

U.S. eager to cater to Chinese tourists

COSTA MESA, Calif. – On a hot summer day, nearly two dozen Chinese tourists descended from a white shuttle bus for an afternoon of shopping at one of Southern California’s signature upscale ...

DATE: Sep 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

Passenger explains seat dispute, use of Knee Defender

NEW YORK – The businessman whose dispute with a fellow airline passenger over a reclined seat sparked a national debate about air-travel etiquette says he’s embarrassed by the way the confro...

DATE: Sep 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

Reclining an airline seat can be risky business

As space shrinks, confrontations more common between fliers

DATE: Sep 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

Johnny Cash’s colonial past

Famous singer raised on government collective in Arkansas

DATE: Aug 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

Mimicking airlines, hotels get fee-happy

NEW YORK – Forget bad weather, traffic jams and kids asking, “Are we there yet?” The real headache for many travelers is a quickly-growing list of hotel surcharges, even for items they never...

DATE: Aug 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

Missing from New Zealand’s slopes? Snow

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Winter has rolled into its third month in New Zealand, and Nick Jarman says he’s going stir crazy as he stares out at the driving rain on the small ski area he mana...

DATE: Aug 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

Pompeii: Dead city lives in ruins, imaginations

POMPEII, Italy – Pompeii is the city of the long goodbye. In A.D. 62, a major earthquake toppled buildings, causing severe damage, harbinger of what was to come. Seventeen years ...

DATE: Aug 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

Touching the clouds

Day hiking highs in 100-year-old Rocky Mountain National Park

DATE: Aug 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

The challenge of keeping our skies safe

Safety improves as airline industry expands worldwide

DATE: Aug 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

Great white tourism

Shark sightings lure visitors to Cape Cod and merchants cash in

DATE: Aug 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

Traveling with your teen

Seems impossible, right? These strategies can make trips fun for everyone

DATE: Jul 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

19-year-old flies 29,000 miles around globe

A South Dakota teen may have become the youngest person to fly solo around the world. Matt Guthmiller, 19, completed the more than 29,000-mile journey in a leased single-engine ai...

DATE: Jul 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

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