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Native Americans honor 50th anniversary of Alcatraz takeover

Southern Ute was one of the original occupiers

DATE: Nov 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

3rd record tide enters Venice as Italy hit with snow, rain

VENICE, Italy – Venice was hit Sunday by a record third exceptional tide in the same week while other parts of Italy struggled with a series of weather woes, from rain-swollen rivers to high...

DATE: Nov 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

China aims to build its own Yellowstone on Tibetan plateau

XINING, China – There’s a building boom on the Tibetan plateau, one of the world’s last remote places. Mountains long crowned by garlands of fluttering prayer flags are newly topped with spr...

DATE: Nov 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Escape tunnel: Secret passageway under Berlin Wall opens to public

BERLIN – An escape tunnel underneath the Berlin Wall opened to the public this month for the first time amid celebrations of the 30-year anniversary of the opening of communist East Germany’...

DATE: Nov 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Venice ‘on its knees’ after second-worst flood ever recorded

VENICE, Italy – The worst flooding in Venice in more than 50 years prompted calls Wednesday to better protect the historic city from rising sea levels as officials calculated hundreds of mil...

DATE: Nov 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

How to score unbelievably cheap flights with mistake airline fares

Maybe this has happened to you. You’re casually scrolling through social media when you spot a friend crowing that she’s headed to Japan next month because she just scored a flight for $247 ...

DATE: Nov 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Mystery trips: Travel companies offer journeys into the unknown

CHARLESTON, W.Va. When Dena Espenscheid answered an advertisement on social media offering a weekend vacation to an unknown destination, her sister warned her she was going to get...

DATE: Nov 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Airbnb agrees to provide host records to Hawaii

HONOLULU – Airbnb Inc. has agreed to provide Hawaii with records of many of its island hosts as the state tries to track down vacation rental operators who haven’t been paying their taxes. ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

New York to Sydney: The world’s first 20-hour flight

How do you survive a 10,000-mile journey?

DATE: Nov 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Australia’s iconic rock Uluru scaled by final climbers

ULURU, Australia – Nature seemed to be siding with indigenous Australians’ demand for Uluru to be respected as a sacred site on Friday when high winds threatened to prematurely end the gener...

DATE: Nov 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

U.S. travel industry to Chinese tourists: What trade war?

Flow of affluent visitors to U.S. drops

DATE: Oct 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Woman found in wilderness after spelling S-O-S with rocks

LOS ANGELES – A woman who vanished on a visit to Sequoia National Park in California was spotted by a low-flying aircraft rescue crew after she spelled S-O-S with rocks in a forest clearing,...

DATE: Oct 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

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