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Flying for Thanksgiving? Tips to handle delays

47 million Americans to go 50 miles or more from home

Gifts for the serious traveler

Road warriors offer ideas, inspiration

Comfort hacks for flights in economy class

Air travel can be a humiliating, dehumanizing and even torturous experience – at least according to my email inbox. I hear often from readers such as Sue McDonough, who contacted ...

Exotic Australia features spectacular coral, unusual wildlife

CAIRNS, Australia – It can be hard to hear an Australian accent while walking along the waterfront esplanade in the far northern city of Cairns on the Pacific. Tourists from acro...

‘Halal tourism’ serves Muslim travelers

Hotels, apps help faithful follow religious customs

Hertz scrubs bills of derided cleaning charge

Hertz has quietly dropped one of the car rental industry’s most unpopular surcharges: the cleaning fee. “Although we appreciate when a vehicle is returned in clean condition, we d...

A taste of Cold War at Wyoming missile site

Deep underground, nuclear launch center will open to tourists

Sharing worlds, and a meal

Down-to-earth dining is highlight of visit to Tokyo

When mistakes happen, keep cool, be polite

All Ali Wallick wanted was the hotel room she had booked. Nothing more. She’d made the Atlanta Marriott Marquis reservation for a busy holiday weekend almost a year in advance. Bu...

You can revel in Tucson’s revitalized downtown

TUCSON, Ariz. – As a kid growing up in Tucson, Eddie Gallego remembers “when everything was downtown.” Then businesses began to move out to the malls, and downtown suffered. Now, he says, th...

Iceland’s warm embrace

A dramatic landscape, a ‘hidden world’ and quirky Icelandic wit

Travelers lose affection for affinity cards

A recent poll bears out something I already believed to be true and am happy to see: Consumers are finally losing their enthusiasm for airline and other affinity credit cards. Ban...