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Red, black, green: Hawaii’s rainbow of sand

The Big Island, Maui and Molokai offer black sand beaches. Maui is home to a red beach, and the Big…

June 13, 2015

Travel

Our best beaches

Hawaii’s Waimanalo Bay Beach Park tops list

June 13, 2015

The Travel Troubleshooter

You don’t have to take ‘no’ for an answer

Thinking of taking “no” for an answer from a travel company? Let Alan Schroeder talk you out of it. When…

June 13, 2015

Travel

Cuba’s time capsule

Juggling old-school hassles in Havana

June 6, 2015

Travel

Tourism dreams thrive for eager Cubans

Entrepreneurs see opportunity in arrival of Americans

June 6, 2015

The Travel Troubleshooter

Reservations about your hotel reservations

Christina Daves knows. On several occasions, she’s shopped for a hotel room online and then clicked through to make a…

June 6, 2015

Travel

Local rhythms animate Old Havana

Getting a glimpse of ordinary life

June 6, 2015

Business

Airlines try to speed boarding process

minute plane is late costs $30, amounting to a lot of cash for industry

June 2, 2015

Travel

Guidance for surviving travel’s tribulations

nuclear blast to identity theft, this book can help

May 30, 2015

Travel

U.S. ranks 4th for tourists

attracts most visitors from across its borders

May 30, 2015

The Travel Troubleshooter

Dumped by your travel company: What to do?

He’d booked a house in Orlando through VRBO.com, a vacation rental website. But a few weeks before the family was…

May 30, 2015

Travel

High above Manhattan

One World Observatory, visitors see across space, time

May 30, 2015

Travel

Complaints against airlines rise, Frontier worst

Passengers on Frontier Airlines were 34 times more likely to complain than passengers on Southwest Airlines, which has the lowest…

May 16, 2015

Travel

Big Bend’s spectacular isolation

through Big Bend’s sweeping, dramatic desert

May 16, 2015

Travel

Navajo Nation president flip-flops on tram

comes out against initial endorsement

May 16, 2015

The Travel Troubleshooter

Before taking a picture on a plane, read this

Both are law-abiding citizens and air travelers. And both recently ran afoul of the airline industry’s confusing photography rules. With…

May 16, 2015

Travel

Sin City’s typical tourist: 45, married

Majority of visitors love Las Vegas

May 2, 2015

Travel

Pioneers of the road trip

the 1910s, three women chronicled coast-to-coast journeys

May 2, 2015

The Travel Troubleshooter

Travelers find new ways to do good

His wife, Debra, figured it was time for new luggage. But what to do with the old bag? Then she…

May 2, 2015

Travel

What’s in a hotel name? A growing industry

companies target millennials with niche lodging

April 18, 2015

Travel

Where birds count

suburban South Florida, a wetlands attracts 150 species

April 18, 2015

Travel

Business travelers turn to Uber for rides

The Uber app displays cars available to make a pickup in downtown Manhattan on a smart phone. A new report…

April 18, 2015

Travel

In Portland, airport carpet turns celebrity

famous by the ‘foot-selfie,’ design inspires beer, socks

April 4, 2015

Travel

Showing their age

National Park Service aims to repair decay, build new generation of visitors

April 4, 2015