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A Camera that Won't Work at Tourist Sights
Instagram is bigger than you thought. This morning, Facebook (which owns it) announced there are now 400 million active users—that's up 100 million since the start of 2015. Soon,…
Two Little-Known Upstarts—WOW Airlines of Iceland and Norwegian Air of Scandinavia—Are Currently Offering Bargain Rates for Off-Season Crossings of the Atlantic
We are about to reach the slowest days of the European off-season, which starts as we approach the month of November and continues until mid-March. It is then that European…
Meteorologists Predict Changing Weather Will Make This Year's Fall Foliage Different
First the bad news: leaf-peeping along North America’s eastern seaboard, and in the inland areas of New England, may not be quite as vivid an event as it usually is in 2015.…
Miss a Connecting Flight? This Airport Will Pay
Would you pay $42 if it meant you didn't have to worry about missing a connecting flight?Gatwick, London's second-busiest airport (out of the city's six), has launched a new…
Driver Licences From Four U.S. States May No Longer Be Accepted As I.D. at Airports in 2016
And those states are: New York, New Hampshire, Louisiana, and Minnesota.In December of 2014, the first phase of the Real ID Act from Congress and the Department of Homeland…
TSA's Luggage Lock Skeleton Keys Leaked
Consumerist and Wired report the design of the master skeleton keys used by the TSA to open and inspect your luggage has been leaked on the Web. Now anyone can use a 3-D printer to…
As Travel Destinations Jockey for Position, It Becomes Necessary Periodically to Revise Our List of 10 Favorites
Which, currently, are the ten-or-so most-promising destinations for your own next vacation? Though any such list is unusually subjective (to put it mildly), I'm willing…
Colonial Williamsburg, in Virginia, Comes Close to Being an Indispensable Place to Visit for Americans of All Ages
Travel is a constant process of self-education. As we visit more and more destinations, we adopt new favorites, replace former cities and resorts with new and more…
How to Research Your Ancestry on a Trip to Scotland
Scotland's government makes researching your ancestry easier than in most places. Here's where to go in Scotland to find your roots—and what to know before you make the trip.
A New App Promises to Make Travel More Safe for Solo Vacationers
Men and women travel differently. And that’s not a comment on shopping habits or boozy pub crawls. For women, especially solo travelers, safety is always front of mind,…
#1 in #2: Japan Opens First Toilet Museum
I don't know if you've ever sat on one of those futuristic Japanese toilets, but they will change your life. In North America and Europe, toilets plug into the plumbing, but in…
An Icon of Modernist Architecture Turns 50: Happy Birthday to St. Louis’ Gateway Arch
St. Louis’ Gateway Arch may well be the most bittersweet of the world’s iconic monuments. The planned focal point of a park built in the 1930’s to celebrate Thomas Jefferson, and…
The New "Big Three" of Travel Search Engines: Competition Dies
As America's wide field of airline competitors has consolidated down to just three major players, consumers also have less choice when it comes to which companies are controlling the…
International Airfare Wars Make It Much Cheaper to Vacation Abroad This Fall and Winter
I reported roughly a week ago that airfares for the summer took a sharp dip; and that experts were predicting that fall fares would also be low.Sometimes it's sweet to be…
Hilton Yanks Adult Movies
Not like you ever rented one, but porn movies are being eliminated from all Hilton hotels' in-demand movie selection.Said Hilton in a statement, as if it was something you might…
Advance Reading is the Key to a Successful International Trip; Failure to Prepare via Reading is to Virtually Guarantee Disappointment
If you arrive overseas without any foreknowledge of the history, culture or politics of the country you are visiting, you are bound to have the most superficial…
In Addition to Sampling the Cultural Riches of Europe, The Smart Tourist Will Cast An Eye at The Fairly Uniform Social Legislation Adopted by Nearly Every Country on the Continent
The overwhelming number of tourists to Western Europe go there with cultural visits in mind. For Europe itself is like a vast, open-air museum--a treasure house, first, of art,…
Bulls Before Breakfast: A Conversation with Bull-Running Enthusiast Peter Milligan
Arthur and Pauline Frommer sit down with Peter Milligan, author of Bulls Before Breakfast: Running with the Bulls and Celebrating Fiesta de San Fermín in Pamplona, Spain.
Airline Complaints Soar! Whose Fault Is It?
It's not your imagination: Airfares may be down (as we reported last week), but complaints about U.S. airlines soared more than 20 percent during the first half of this…
Entrancing Video Follows Luggage After It's Checked
Amsterdam's Schiphol airport wants to show you that it has put a lot of cash into building the ultimate baggage delivery system. So it produced this astonishing video by attaching a…
A Strong U.S. Dollar Means Transformation (For the Better) of the American Travel Experience in Many Countries
Contrary to the predictions of numerous conservative politicians who felt that the Administration's policies would weaken the dollar, the exact opposite has occurred: The U.S.…
The Sky Isn't Falling But Airfares Are: Air Pricing Sees the Biggest One-Month Drop in 20 Years
For months, the second most popular travel question that's been lobbed my way (after "is X, Y or Z safe?") has been: "Why, with the cost of gas so low, haven't airfares…
In the Wake of China's Recent Devaluation of its Currency, Get Ready for Cheaper Prices than Ever for an Air-Included Trip
Having attempted unsuccessfully to contact the top executives at America's several leading tour operators to China, I've concluded that they are all on the way to China…
America's Only Thomas the Tank Engine Theme Park Land Opens: Images
The new land, targeted to very small children and based on the wildly popular English characters, opens in Massachusetts.
All National Parks are Free (On These Days)
The National Park System is extending another gift to the American people in the form of fee-free days.And lucky us—there are two in a month, right when the weather is…