Travel

Years before Pamela Fiori worked as the editor who revitalized Town and Country (and the first woman to be editor in chief of that magazine), and before she was the editor in chief of Travel + Leisure,she worked as a researcher at Holiday, the travel magazine that was published from 1946 to 1977. Holiday featured […]

“When I think about living how our grandparents did, it seems exhausting,” said Ms. Saila, heading to the freezer, where plastic bags of “country food” — caribou, seal, beluga — bumped up against frozen waffles and Cool Whip. Ms. Saila comes from a line of artists. Her great-grandfather, Pauta Saila, was an acclaimed carver, and

In South Africa, a New Hotel With an Antique Feel Cape Town, in the shadow of Table Mountain on the South African coast, has become one of the most buzzed about travel destinations in Africa in recent years. But while the city’s food and wine scenes continue to flourish, its hotel options have remained limited.

When planning a vacation abroad, the last thing you want to imagine is having to go to the hospital. But it’s important to expect the unexpected and plan for the possibility of an emergency. “Unfamiliar areas, exotic foods, insect-borne illnesses and adventurous activities can all lead to illness or injury,” E. Patricia Gill, an infectious

We may never achieve a waistline the size of a thumb or go out with a dreamboat like Ken, but not all of Barbie’s fantastic plastic lifestyle is out of reach. The Mattel doll is opening up her famed Malibu Dreamhouse — or, at least, a human-sized approximation of it — on Airbnb for a

The USS Constitution has sailed in Boston Harbor to celebrate its 222nd birthday and the U.S. Navy’s birthday. The ship left Charlestown Navy Yard Friday morning and headed to Fort Independence on Castle Island to fire a 21-gun salute. The event celebrates the birthday of “Old Ironsides,” the world’s oldest commissioned warship still afloat, and

A commuter airplane carrying 42 people, including a high school swim team, to a remote Aleutian Islands fishing community went off the runway and came to a rest just short of the Bering Sea. Two passengers suffered critical injuries and 10 more were receiving medical care, the plane’s operator said. The swim team was fine

This summer, all it took for Jeremy MacKechnie to pull the trigger on a trip with his husband, brother and sister-in-law — something the two couples had been loosely considering, with little headway — were $7 upgrades on flights to Cancún that seemed too good to be true. “I decided to just book first and

The body-blow of months of political protests on Hong Kong’s tourism is verging on catastrophic for one of the world’s great destinations. Geared up to receive 65 million travelers a year, the city’s hotels, retailers, restaurants and other travel-oriented industries are suffering. But some intrepid visitors came specifically to see the protests and are reveling

The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. This week’s issue is written by Tacey Rychter, the bureau’s audience editor. “What are your ways of staying present and more deeply observant when you travel?” I asked that question in last week’s Australia Letter, when I