Travel

I’m a terrible packer. By that, I don’t mean I’m a last-minute packer or that I consistently pack the wrong things. I mean that I loathe the entire process of packing for air travel and international trips. I obsessively check the weather at my destination to make sure I’ve planned weather-appropriate outfits and have waterproof […]

Andrew Bolton, as the Wendy Yu Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, oversees the spring exhibitions of The Costume Institute, the Met’s fashion department. The collection he pulls together each year is celebrated at the Met Gala, the annual benefit in New York where celebrities and designers put forth their best effort to create

With its mountains and desert, beach resorts and Berber villages, Morocco is a feast for travelers of all kinds, including those who want to explore the kingdoms deep Jewish roots. The presence of Jews in Morocco stretches back more than 2,000 years. Before the founding of Israel in 1948, estimates put their number as high

When Nealie and Andrew Barker and their five children checked into a house through home-rental service Airbnb in March, they soon made an unsettling discovery that interrupted their European vacation. “We just found a camera hidden in a smoke alarm case in the private living room of a listing. We were traveling with children,” Nealie

Tucked away in the foothills of the southern Rockies, the Philmont Scout Ranch has become a holy grail, its stretches of untamed wilderness and challenging backcountry treks drawing more than 1 million Boy Scouts and other adventurers from across the United States over the past 80 years. For many of those who have spent time

When Yondje Choi was told she would need a face mask for an upcoming trip to South Korea, Ms. Choi, a 31-year-old New Yorker, was shocked. “I knew air pollution is a major problem in Beijing, but I didn’t know it was this bad here,” she said last month in Seoul. While China takes a

When your job is to plan other people’s vacations, you probably have a pretty impressive travel bucket list of your own. HuffPost reached out to travel experts and professional trip planners to get the scoop on where they’re personally vacationing this summer and why. Travel consultants often get perks and discounts when they travel, but

Niagara Falls and its surrounding parks see millions of visitors a year, and all that foot traffic results in a lot of trash — 832 metric tons each year from the Canadian areas alone. Still, park sanitation workers were surprised to find a piano, broken into pieces, among the items left in the garbage one

Hawaii’s iconic Waikiki Beach could soon be underwater as rising sea levels caused by global warming overtake its white sand beaches and bustling city streets. That’s alarming for a state where beach tourism is the primary economic driver. So state lawmakers are trying to pass legislation that would defend against routine coastal flooding that may

The luxury luggage market is having a bit of a moment thanks to folks who can’t decide whether Away suitcases and other bags with features like built-in charging are worth it. Lucky for us, that means there are now plenty of luggage options out there to ease our most common packing problems. Take this Genius