Travel

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,...

WASTE COLLECTION TECHNOLOGY IN THAILAND | Pictured: A demonstration of "Wastie Robot," a contaminated waste collection robot designed to prevent and reduce the chance of infections during the pandemic. "Wastie Robot" will be used in hospitals that are treating COVID-19 patients.

Ed Perkins on travel: Insurance for your post-COVID trip

By Ed Perkins

August 24, 2020 at 10:39 a.m.

At some point, you'll decide the risks of the COVID-19 pandemic will be low enough...

The new American status symbol? A second passport

By The New York Times

August 23, 2020 at 7:29 a.m.

Growing up in Chicago, Juliana Calistri was surrounded by all things Italian: Italian music, Italian...

Hoteliers and prospective visitors hope Fort Lauderdale's all-important beach, the local tourist industry's most valuable asset, will be open for the Labor Day weekend. Thus far, officials say, it will be.

South Florida’s beaches still set to open for Labor Day as hotels lower their prices

By David Lyons

August 24, 2020 at 5:29 p.m.

Unlike past holidays during this pandemic, the upcoming Labor Day weekend will offer South Floridians...

A Transportation Security Administration officer stands behind a metal detector Feb. 4, 2019, as passengers make their way through security in Terminal 3 at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. Travelers left $35,398.93 in unclaimed cash at checkpoints in O'Hare International Airport last year, the TSA says.

Not just pocket change: Travelers left more than $35,000 in cash and coins behind at O’Hare’s airport security last year

By Lauren Zumbach

August 21, 2020 at 1:04 p.m.

Double-check your pockets the next time you pass through airport security: Travelers left $35,398.93 in...

Lamin Ngobeh, a high school teacher at Freire Charter School who plans to temporarily move to Barbados in September, sits in a classroom in Wilmington, Del., Aug. 17, 2020. Several countries with fragile tourist economies have started to offer visas that allow foreign nationals to live and work for a period of at least six months.

Why work from home when you can work from Barbados, Bermuda or … Estonia?

By The New York Times

August 21, 2020 at 11:38 a.m.

When Lamin Ngobeh, a high school teacher at the Freire Charter School in Wilmington, Delaware,...

Go away with … Nancy Jooyoun Kim

By Jae-Ha Kim

August 20, 2020 at 12:16 p.m.

Born in Los Angeles and currently a resident of California's Bay Area, author Nancy Jooyoun...

A photo provided by Antonio Irlando shows a woman taking a selfie standing on top of some newly reopened thermal baths in Pompeii. Damaged treasures and broken rules have put the spotlight on Italy's fragile cultural heritage, and the need to better educate visitors.

Italy wants its tourists back, unless they sit on the statues

By The New York Times

August 20, 2020 at 12:14 p.m.

ROME — First, two German tourists took an unauthorized dip in the Grand Canal in...

CONNECTICUT | Total WalletHub score: 55.3
| Dependency on travel and tourism industry rank: #12
| Aggressiveness against coronavirus rank: #21

Tourism brings in as much as $15.5 billion in Connecticut. But with the COVID-19 crisis, it's struggling. In Downtown Mystic, for example, the Whaler's Inn closed for the first time in six decades. Around 9 in 10 people who stay at the inn are tourists.

Rick Steves’ Europe: Czech out Prague

By Rick Steves

August 20, 2020 at 10:43 a.m.

As we've had to postpone our travels because of the pandemic, I believe a weekly...

OULANKA NATIONAL PARK, FINLAND | Enjoy the sound of rushing water from this cabin in Oulanka National Park in Lapland, Finland.

It’s time to rethink theme parks. Creative ways to reopen while social distancing

By Los Angeles Times

August 20, 2020 at 9:35 a.m.

LOS ANGELES — Knott's Berry Farm recently felt more like a national park than a...

Elena Gaudino on her terrace in Brooklyn, with camping gear for an upcoming vacation, Aug. 12, 2020. Sharing vacation adventures used to be fun, but during the pandemic, some travelers are content to let the tree fall in the forest, so to speak, without a single soul to hear it.

Shhh! We’re heading off on vacation

By The New York Times

August 19, 2020 at 10:50 a.m.

Next month, Elena Gaudino will fly from New York to Las Vegas, rent an SUV...