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The Chicago skyline backdrops the Chicago Jazz Festival at Millennium Park’s Pritzker Pavilion on Sept. 4, 2026. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Conde Nast Traveler readers name Chicago ‘Best Big City’ for 10th year in a row

By Robert Channick

October 6, 2026 at 3:25 p.m.

Conde Nast Traveler received nearly 800,000 votes for this year’s Readers’ Choice Awards, which cover...

Olivia Estrada, the on board manager, carries plates of food to the dome car for guests aboard a Patrick Henry Creative Promotions private rail car as it travels from Chicago, Illinois, to St. Louis, Missouri, on May 19, 2026. Private train cars may seem like a relic of the past, but for some rail fans, nothing beats having — or renting — your own sleeper car. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)

The quiet allure of private rail

By The New York Times News Service Syndicate

October 2, 2026 at 6:15 p.m.

Private rail cars traveled 429,000 miles on Amtrak in fiscal year 2025, according to the...

Cary Sabados shops for chocolate at Hotel Chocolat in Lakeview on Feb. 12, 2026. This Lakeview location, opened last April, was the first Chicago store. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Chicago-based Hotel Chocolat going nationwide with airport concessions, grocery stores and new retail markets

By Robert Channick

September 23, 2026 at 12:37 p.m.

This fall, Hotel Chocolat will pop up at 49 airports, hit the shelves at Wegmans,...

People queue to check-in for a British Airways flight to Heathrow airport, Friday Aug.14, 2020 at Nice airport, southern France. British holidaymakers in France were mulling whether to return home early Friday to avoid having to self-isolate for 14 days following the U.K. government's decision to reimpose quarantine restrictions on France amid a recent pick-up in coronavirus infections. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

British Airways says I was a no-show for my flight. But I wasn’t. Travel Troubleshooter investigates.

By Christopher Elliott

September 2, 2020 at 12:03 p.m.

British Airways says Ross Smith and his family were no-shows for their flights from Los...

WAIT FOR A SPORTING EVENTS | <a href="https://www.theactivetimes.com/extreme-weather-pro-sports-athletes"target="_blank">Pro athletes have endured a lot</a> for the sake of the game, however this global health pandemic has upended the spring and summer sporting season. Currently, Major League Baseball has not announced a ticket refund policy, and the league intends to play as many games as possible when the season begins. The NHL and NBA have both been similarly mum on refund policies as they navigate the possibility of a season with empty stands and stadiums.

Remember the ‘travel bubble’? Here’s how it burst

By The New York Times

September 2, 2020 at 11:21 a.m.

One of the strategies for keeping international travel afloat during the pandemic was the creation...

Quarantine requirements for travelers have become increasingly common throughout the U.S., but local and state governments have struggled to contain the spread of the coronavirus with limited manpower and dwindling resources, and following quarantine rules is more often than not left to the traveler's discretion.

Quarantine and travel: Strict penalties, rare enforcement

By The New York Times

September 1, 2020 at 11:30 a.m.

Mika Salamanca's mug shot is a departure from most of the images you'll find of...

Hotel companies have been promoting new cleaning initiatives for months as a way to regain traveler confidence, but guests at some U.S. hotels say they are not living up to the promises.

Hotels tout cleaning, but guests say, ‘My room was dirty’

By The New York Times

September 1, 2020 at 10:52 a.m.

In June, Charles Kunz stayed at the Westin Atlanta Airport and found "the largest cockroach...

FILE -- Tourists overlooking the old town of Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 21, 2018. The city has struggled with overtourism. Can a post-vaccine return to travel be smarter and greener than it was before March 2020? Some in the tourism industry are betting on it.

Move over, sustainable travel. Regenerative travel has arrived.

By The New York Times

September 1, 2020 at 10:46 a.m.

Tourism, which grew faster than the global gross domestic product for the past nine years,...

Ed Perkins on Travel: Consumer issues for 2021: Air travel

By Ed Perkins

August 31, 2020 at 10:58 a.m.

I'm taking some time off from the dreary and seemingly endless Covid-19 story to look...

Jerome Day blows bubbles for his daughter, 7, and niece, 3.

Visiting grandparents during COVID-19: Over the river and through the pandemic we go

By Jennifer Day

September 2, 2020 at 3:02 p.m.

In July, after nervously checking the daily COVID-19 positivity rates, I loaded my 3-year-old daughter...

Meet the National Parks’ ‘Ranger of the Lost Art’

By The New York Times

August 29, 2020 at 7:30 a.m.

Hundreds of thousands of sweaty, athleisure-clad national park visitors have entered the park gift shop...

The courtyard between THesis Hotel (left) and residences (right) in Coral Gables, Florida on August 6, 2020.

Open a resort in the middle of a pandemic? These developers are giving it a go

By Miami Herald

August 28, 2020 at 1:45 p.m.

MIAMI — THesis Hotel first came off the drawing board seven years, when pandemic was...

Despite the pandemic, Aer Lingus has retained one of its nonstop flights between Chicago and Dublin.

Commentary: A pandemic trip to Europe was going great — until the return to O’Hare airport

By Chris Jones

August 28, 2020 at 10:05 a.m.

The Department of Homeland Security official scowled at the little clutch of weary passengers, recently...