Looking to book an epic once-in-a-lifetime travel experience in 2016? The world’s top luxury travel specialists share the destinations they’re most excited about and how to explore them in style. Kyushu, Japan The dollar hit a 12-year high against the yen in 2015, piquing the interest of many savvy travelers who saw an opportunity to get more bang for their …
Sabre GDS subscribers this month can begin selling American Airlines’ Main Cabin Extra and Preferred seats. The companies said they have made the inventory available to travel agents using IATA’s New Distribution Capability (NDC) messaging standards. Main Cabin Extra seats are toward the front of the coach cabin and offer passengers more legroom and early boarding. Preferred seats are standard-legroom …
Zenith Irfan’s father used to dream of leaving his home in Pakistan to travel around the world on a motorbike. His early death meant he never fulfilled his wish. As his eldest child, Irfan decided to take up the challenge — and along the way smash stereotypes inPakistan as a female biker. The 21-year-old student from Lahore, northeast Pakistan has …
A Four Seasons resort in Northern California’s Napa Valley wine country is slated to open in the town of Calistoga in early 2018. The resort will include 85 rooms as well as 20 one- and two-bedroom residential villas, each with its own wine cellar. The resort will also have a spa featuring Calistoga’s geothermal waters as well as an “event …
Mexico’s tourism agency said that the mosquito-borne Zika virus does not pose a threat to tourists, citing the low number of cases in the country and the location of those cases — in rural areas, not near the more popular tourist destinations. An uphill battle The proclamation by Mexico’s tourism agency that Zika isn’t a threat to tourists seeks to …
Taking pictures of famous landmarks is like writing a thank-you letter or ironing a shirt. You’re sorta obligated to do it, and everyone does it more or less the same way. So when someone figures out a unique style of getting the job done, people notice. That’s what happened when Londoner Rich McCor began adorning pictures of British landmarks with …
The mysterious world of subterranean London looks set to give up one of its secrets next year as a previously hidden underground railroad opens to the public. The Mail Rail is a 23-mile network once used by the UK’s Royal Mail postal service to transport letters and parcels beneath the city. Its small electric engines entered service in 1927, shuttling …
Crystal Cruises on Thursday revealed a grand plan to transform the SS United States — a mothballed, 65-year-old ocean liner — into a modern, luxury cruise vessel. The ship has been docked in Philadelphia since 1996. Edie Rodriguez, Crystal’s CEO, revealed the company’s plans today along with the ship’s current owner, the SS United States Conservancy, at the Manhattan Cruise …
It’s hard to believe the National Gallery Singapore is just a few months old. Since flinging open its doors in November 2015, it’s become the go-to place for Southeast Asian art and Singaporean history. Ten years and $374 million in the making, the venue occupies buildings that once housed the city-state’s Supreme Court and City Hall. In their place is …
Carnival Cruise Line has extended its Carnival Journeys program of longer cruises with less-visited ports of call. The roster includes 22 cruises starting this month and running through September 2017. All of the cruises are at least nine days with a November 2016 Long Beach-Hawaii roundtrip on the Carnival Miracle running 15 days. There are several 10-day roundtrips from Charleston, …