On a week-long trip to Paris last year, I racked up nearly $100 in data charges on my iPhone, with taxes and fees. Ditto for a separate, eight-day trip to Spain, which was even more pricey. And, in what I now jokingly call an act of piracy, my three-week trip to seven countries – including a…

You’ve booked the hotel and you’re starting to look forward to your break when you get a message telling you to make a payment, or give your credit card details, to secure your holiday. It’s come through the Booking.com app, or in an email that looks legitimate, so you get out your credit card in…

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Tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter' 14 hours ago Nelli BirdBBC News Becky Burke's dad says she was taken from a detention centre handcuffed and chained at the legs and waist A tourist held in the US for 19 days was removed in chains like Hannibal Lecter, according to her parents. Becky…

After a dozen days being shuffled between detention centres in the U.S., Jasmine Mooney has made it back to Vancouver. The Canadian entrepreneur, who was detained after applying for a visa at the U.S.-Mexico border on March 3, touched down at Vancouver International Airport shortly after midnight…

Are planes crashing more often? 22 February 2025 Joshua Cheetham, Yi Ma & Matt MurphyBBC Verify Getty Images After a series of high-profile disasters, some social media users suggested that air travel accidents were becoming more frequent. Videos of hair-raising near misses began to trend online and…

Americans’ confidence in aviation has slipped following a string of plane crashes in 2025, according to a new poll. As of this year 64% of Americans said they believe air travel is very or somewhat safe, marking a decrease from 71% of Americans who indicated so last year, said the poll, conducted by…

The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it will cancel TSA’s collective bargaining agreement and stop collecting union dues, a move it says will “strengthen workforce agility.” A Transportation Security Administration officer's uniform at Dallas Love Field Airport on June 24, 2020, in…

Traveling abroad for the first time since November, I saw pity in the eyes of strangers when they heard my American accent. Pity, empathy and utter confusion, as if to convey “What the hell is happening to your country?” with a mere glance or a quiet sigh. Believe me, I’m American and I’m just as…

Blazing Salads, Dillingers, Assassination Custard and Brasserie Sixty Six in Dublin, Church Lane and Sage in County Cork, and Barnacles in Galway. These are just some of the most recent additions to the list of more than 600 restaurants that have been forced to close in Ireland in the last year in…

ByLaura Begley Bloom, Senior Contributor. Are you wondering how to move out of the U.S.? You’re not alone—according to a recent survey, one in three Americans would leave the U.S. if they could. A new company called Expatsi is helping Americans move abroad and live their dream life. Expatsi was…

This map shows the rudest place names in the world Published 23 November 2016 Share page About sharing Image source, ST&G Image caption, Warning: You may find some of the words in this page offensive - but you shouldn't Mapmakers Strumpshaw, Tincleton & Giggleswick have created a map of the rudest…

No alternative to vaccine passports, says Dubai airport boss 15 May 2021 Jonathan JosephsBusiness reporter, BBC News Reuters Coronavirus has led to a 70% fall in passenger numbers at the world's busiest airport for international passengers in Dubai The boss of the world's busiest airport for…

EU unveils plans for overseas tourists to return 3 May 2021 Getty Images The EU Commission has recommended easing restrictions on non-essential travel from overseas. Under the plans, anyone who has received the last dose of an EU-approved vaccine at least two weeks beforehand will be permitted to…

For American travelers hoping to head abroad, answers to questions about which countries they can visit and what the future might hold. A view from the Kadikoy waterfront in Istanbul. Turkey is one of the few European countries that is open to American tourists. Credit...Danielle Villasana for The…

The head of the European Commission said the bloc would switch policy, under certain conditions, after more than a year of mostly banning nonessential travel. Before long American tourists may be able to visit Paris and the treasures of the Louvre, shown last summer.Credit...Dmitry Kostyukov for The…

BySuzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes Staff. An outbreak of 59 Covid-19 cases in Ireland last summer has been linked to a seven-hour international flight, according to research by the Irish Department of Public Health published last week in Eurosurveillance, a European journal on infectious disease…

The pandemic has made it tough for families to figure out safe travel options. So we asked some experts what they’re doing this summer. Credit...Rose Wong By Published April 9, 2021Updated April 11, 2021 Families are facing a dilemma this year: They’re itching to take a summer vacation, but their…

Before Covid-19, the city was packed with visitors. Now efforts to rein in the expected post-pandemic crowds are ramping up, but not without controversy. Amsterdam’s Red Light District, before and during the pandemic.Credit...Jasper Juinen for The New York Times By Published March 31, 2021Updated…

Finland ranked happiest country in the world - again 19 March 2021 Getty Images Finland has been named the happiest country for a fourth year running Finland has been named the happiest place in the world for a fourth year running, in an annual UN-sponsored report. The World Happiness Report saw…

Pity the travel influencer (or don’t; it’s easy not to). Before COVID-19, the art of stoking wanderlust was defined by selling a fantasy—the promise not only of a perfect vacation, but of a self somehow fortified and made special by going to the same bleached beaches and blue-domed Greek villages as…

A Year without travel Before Covid, ‘tourism was at this point where everything was about tourists.’ With the one-year anniversary of travel’s collapse, the state, like other overtouristed places, is hoping for a reset. Before the pandemic, the crowds that flocked to Diamond Head State Monument had…

The world's cheapest Michelin-starred meal can be found at a humble hawker stall in Singapore. Chan's hawker stall in 2016, the year it was first awarded one Michelin star. Kyle Malinda-White/picture alliance via Getty Images Chan Hon Meng, born to farmers in Malaysia, opened Liao Fan Soya Sauce…

travel Tips My partner and I both felt we could get away, safely. So we packed the large bottles of sanitizer, double-checked the Wi-Fi and off we went. Credit...Julie Benbassat By Published Oct. 27, 2020Updated Oct. 28, 2020 Leer en español When I decided to travel to Mexico in the middle of the…

A vintage coal-fired steam engine pushes a passenger car up the Cog Railway on a 3.8-mile journey to the summit of New Hampshire's 6,288-foot Mount Washington on September 24, 2017. # Robert F. Bukaty / AP Leaves begin to change color in Crawford Notch on October 7, 2016, in Carroll, New Hampshire.…

KYOTO, Japan—The bustle of tourists has disappeared from this ancient capital—only to be replaced by dissension over whether they should ever be welcomed back. Mimiko Takayasu, 80 years old, is proprietress of a century-old tea house where geisha entertain wealthy Japanese with traditional music and…

In late 2012, after a brief trip into Aleppo to cover the Syrian civil war, I walked up to a Turkish border checkpoint. I expected to be waved through to Kilis, a town a short distance away, where I had been staying. Colleagues of mine who had covered the rebels for longer had told me the crossing…