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“Koreans are fanatical when it comes to golf,” said Panch Ratnavale, the director of Niseko Village, a ski and golf resort 30 minutes northwest of Rusutsu by car. “They can do 36 holes every day. Their priorities are different. If you want to talk about maniacs, I’ve never seen anyone more passionate than Koreans.” Niseko […]

With its pilots on strike for the first time, British Airways canceled almost all of its flights on Monday, affecting some 195,000 people slated to travel on Monday and Tuesday. The 48-hour strike comes during a heated pay dispute between the airline and its pilots union, and is the first in the union’s 100-year history.

British Airways canceled most flights for Monday and Tuesday after its pilots went on strike over their demand for higher pay, upending the travel plans of about 195,000 passengers. The pilots’ union said its members would not return to work for 48 hours after starting the job action at midnight Monday, prompting the latest of

This autumn the excavation, reconstitution and globalization of 20th-century modernism continues apace. And that’s not just because the new, improved Museum of Modern Art is reopening next month, although let’s not minimize the significance of the main birthplace of modernist linearity seriously rearranging its brain cells. Nearly all the shows here contribute in some way,

Up in the right-hand corner of Alaska, like something freezer-burned and half-remembered in the back of the national icebox, lies a place called the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge is the largest wildlife sanctuary in the United States. It is the size of South Carolina. It is also home to the country’s second-largest wilderness

When buying golf homes, the wealthy often turn to Sotheby’s International Realty. The firm has nearly 7,000 property listings at any given time in more than 30 countries and territories. “Golf homes have consistently been one of our top-selling categories,” said Philip A. White Jr., the company’s president and an avid golfer. (Sotheby’s International Realty

The Sept. 11 memorial at ground zero has been evolving as the 18th anniversary of the attacks approaches. This year, when nearly 3,000 victims’ names are read aloud there Wednesday, a half-dozen stacks of stone will quietly salute an untold number of people who aren’t on that list. The granite slabs were installed on the

LAST MAY, THREE England-based craftspeople — the basket makers Mary Butcher and Annemarie O’Sullivan and the furniture maker and designer Gareth Neal — were sent by their London gallery, the New Craftsmen, for a weeklong residency in Orkney, a chain of about 70 small islands off the northern coast of Scotland. They explored Mainland, Orkney’s

PONT-LA-VILLE, Switzerland — On the two-lane road through this lakeside village of 600 residents, in the middle of Canton Fribourg, you can’t miss two sales signs outside a driveway entrance: “Golf Resort La Gruyère, appartements de prestige.” Within five years, developers promise to transform the village’s modest golf course into a $356 million luxury destination:

The hotel industry is booming in the United States in pretty much every way, except in one that might matter most to guests: staffing. “This is the tightest labor market we’ve seen in a generation, at a time when demand for hotels has never been higher,” said Chip Rogers, president and chief executive of the