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,...

Tourism in Hong Kong battered by the coronavirus outbreak

By Getty Images

April 14, 2020 at 3:11 p.m.

As the coronavirus outbreak causes travelers to stay home, Hong Kong sees tourism numbers lower...

Passengers wearing face masks travel in a train as they arrive at the main train station in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, April 14, 2020. Face mask distribution in train and bus stations continue as factory and construction workers resume their activities in roughly half of Spanish regions emerging from the Easter holiday period. Spain's left-wing Cabinet is expected to pass new measures to aide smaller business and the self-employed affected by the freezing of economic activity. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

When can we travel again? Experts share their predictions

By Catharine Hamm

April 14, 2020 at 1:00 p.m.

When can we travel again? Maybe a summer road trip. Maybe Europe in fall. Maybe...

Go Away With … Lisa Vidal

By Jae-Ha Kim

April 14, 2020 at 1:00 p.m.

Lisa Vidal plays the matriarch in the new ABC series, "The Baker and the Beauty."...

Flight attendants and pilots ask, ‘Is It OK to keep working?’

By The New York Times

April 13, 2020 at 9:59 a.m.

Molly Choma, a flight attendant for Alaska Airlines, had worked nearly every day since mid-March,...

Flight attendants and pilots ask, ‘Is It OK to keep working?’

By The New York Times

April 13, 2020 at 9:49 a.m.

Airlines have canceled a staggering number of flights, but thousands still take off every day,...

Spa treatments in tropical surroundings are one way to relax at the Costa Rican eco-lodge.

Costa Rican eco-lodge is sanctuary that reminds us why we travel in first place

By Carol Ann Davidson

April 13, 2020 at 4:00 a.m.

Of all my travel stories that have been published this past decade, this one is...

An empty entrance on Western Way as Walt Disney World enters its second week of being shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic, photographed Tuesday, March 24, 2020. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel)

43,000 more Walt Disney World workers will be furloughed April 19

By Gabrielle Russon

April 13, 2020 at 1:18 p.m.

About 43,000 unionized Disney World workers will be furloughed starting April 19, the largest wave...

FILE -- Light traffic on Interstate 45 in Houston on April 2, 2020. Traffic congestion, an unloved barometer of urban life, is one more measure of how the coronavirus pandemic has affected the country.

On America’s busiest highways, the virus leaves an open road

By The New York Times

April 11, 2020 at 8:18 a.m.

In U.S. cities, busy streets fuel commerce and sustain the background noise to everyday life....

The Lotus Wellness event. (Carol Ann Davidson/TNS)

Costa Rican lodge is sanctuary that will remind us why we travel in first place

By Carol Ann Davidson

April 10, 2020 at 4:58 p.m.

Of all my travel stories that have been published this past decade, this one is...

Costa Rican lodge is sanctuary that will remind us why we travel in first place

By Carol Ann Davidson

April 10, 2020 at 1:57 p.m.

In early March, I boarded a canopied motor boat at Puerto Jimenez and sped across...