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,...

A passenger boards a plane March 16, 2020, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Most major U.S. airlines are now requiring passengers to wear masks to help limit the spread of the coronavirus.

Most major US airlines will require passengers to wear face masks

By Associated Press

May 1, 2020 at 1:14 p.m.

United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Alaska Airlines will soon require passengers to...

A masked worker walks in view of a 737 jet at a Boeing airplane manufacturing plant Wednesday, April 29, 2020, in Renton, Wash. Boeing says it will cut about 10% of its work force and slow production of planes as it deals with the ongoing grounding of its best-selling plane and the coronavirus pandemic. With air travel falling sharply because of the virus, airlines have delayed orders and deliveries of new planes, reducing Boeing's revenue. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Who should wear masks on planes? More airlines say everyone.

By The New York Times

May 1, 2020 at 11:28 a.m.

After flight attendants and pilots criticized them for not doing more to protect employees, large...

A rendering of the Janus seat. The middle seat is reversed to isolate passengers.

After coronavirus: Your next flight may look like this

By Catharine Hamm

April 30, 2020 at 3:14 p.m.

You may be wearing a mask. Middle seats could be empty on purpose. And the...

Maria Medina cleans a guest bathroom at The St. Clair Hotel, part of Red Roof's Red Collection of properties. Red Roof, like many hotel chains, recently enhanced its hygiene protocols as a result of the coronavirus crisis.

Goodbye breakfast buffets and notepads, hello germ-zapping robots. How hotels are doubling down on hygiene — and what that means for your next stay.

By Lori Rackl

May 1, 2020 at 11:24 a.m.

The coronavirus crisis has not only sent the hotel industry reeling by cratering occupancy rates....

People are talking about ‘travel bubbles.’ But could they work?

By The New York Times

April 30, 2020 at 10:17 a.m.

Last week, Australia's Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, said that he and Jacinda Ardern, the Prime...

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 29, 2020 file photo, people walk past the Leonardo da Vinci museum, temporary closed due to the COVID-19, coronavirus outbreak, in Venice. Venice, which was nearing recovery in the Carnival season following a tourist lull after record flooding in November, saw bookings drop immediately after regional officials canceled events due to restrictions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Many museums won’t survive the virus. How do you close one down?

By The New York Times

April 30, 2020 at 10:12 a.m.

The Charles Dickens Museum in London has fallen on hard times. For 95 years, the...

People are talking about ‘travel bubbles.’ But could they work?

By The New York Times

April 30, 2020 at 9:57 a.m.

Australia's Prime Minister said that he and the Prime Minister of New Zealand were talking...

Go Away With … Evy Poumpouras

By Jae-Ha Kim

April 28, 2020 at 2:37 p.m.

"I was a week away from going to Mt. Everest when the unfortunate events of...

In this Thursday, April 23, 2020 photo, Laura Campbell speaks as she looks over vacation rental agreements at her home in Richmond, Va. Campbell lost deposits and rental fees when after cancelling vacations due to COVID-19 despite having travel insurance. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Think travel insurance will cover your coronavirus cancellation? Think again.

By Associated Press

April 28, 2020 at 12:45 p.m.

For many people, travel insurance has been little more than a box that pops up...

Passengers sit at a distance inside a flight from Miami to Atlanta on April 23, 2020.

How coronavirus will forever change airlines and the way we fly

By Angus Whitley

April 28, 2020 at 12:21 p.m.

Higher fares, fewer routes, preflight health checks and less free food: The coronavirus pandemic is...