travel

Out of Eden Walk
Recycled whirligigs remain a fixture in the Japanese countryside
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Many Taipei residents visit the city's historic Dihua Street to buy goods for the Lunar New Year.
Culture
Taiwan and China celebrate Lunar New Year amid vastly different COVID levels
A man tries to receive medicine he bought at a pharmacy through its closed glass doors in Shanghai, China, May 22, 2022.
COVID-19
Shanghai sees exodus as people flee China’s lockdown woes
Travelers wait for the coronavirus testing at the Incheon International Airport in Incheon, South Korea
Coronavirus Conversations
Coronavirus Conversations: The omicron variant and holiday travel
A passenger shows his PCR test result on his phone as he boards a plane at an airport
Borders
As Europe plans to reopen, travelers must read the fine print
Stranded Australian citizens arrive to catch a bus to take a rescue flight from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, April 1, 2020. Stranded tourists from Australia and New Zealand boarded a chartered flight out of Nepal Wednesday. The Nep
Australians stranded amid the pandemic take their case to the UN
Sandra Martínez stands in a plant-filled patio of the Las Golondrinas Hotel.
COVID-19
Mexico’s battered tourism sector teeters fine line between economy and public health
People stand on a train platform
COVID-19
‘Travel bubbles’: Who’s in and who’s out of the plan to save global tourism
A group of tourists stands taking selfies outside.
Lifestyle & Belief
How did tourism become so popular?
three people split quesadillas
Food
In Mexico City, if you want cheese in your quesadilla, you have to ask
Arts, Culture & Media
Novelist Walter Kirn on Travel
Arts, Culture & Media
Design for the Real World: Suitcase
Arts, Culture & Media
Special Guest: Pico Iyer
Arts, Culture & Media
Picture Postcards
Arts, Culture & Media
Set a Course For Adventure
Arts, Culture & Media
Happiness
Arts, Culture & Media
Kongfu Monk
Arts, Culture & Media
On the Road
Arts, Culture & Media
Five Things You Had To See Online This Week
Arts, Culture & Media
Trading Travel for Photography
Arts, Culture & Media
This Artist Makes Some of Her Best Work in the Airplane Bathroom
Boy sitting on cream sofa holding child's drawing, looking at it
Global Politics
A 3-year-old held up by Canada’s no-fly list? His parents say it’s ‘ridiculous.’
19-year-old Amir Darabi at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Music
An Iranian piano prodigy. A big dream. And an arduous visa process.
The Statue of Liberty is one of the United States' most-visited tourist attractions.
Economics
International travel to the US drops for the first time since 2009
A view of the new swimming zone in a Paris canal
Culture
Swimmers flock to a Paris canal as the city cleans up its waterways
Teju Cole was born in the United States and raised in Nigeria.
Books
Nigerian-American author Teju Cole wants us to rethink what it means to travel
A British Airways passenger plane preparing to land at Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport in London
Economics
British Airways cancels all flights out of London after IT failure
Laptops and other devices larger than cellphones are banned for direct US- and UK-bound flights from certain airports.
Conflict
The new carry-on device ban is reportedly about al-Qaeda and ISIS bombs
Young girl holding sign in front of crowd, "I want to hug my dad"
Justice
A crowdsourced database provides a glimpse of what traveling from Iran to the US is like right now
Demonstrators shut down the traffic loops at LAX International Airport and yell slogans during a protest against the travel ban imposed by President Donald Trump's executive order.
Culture
Photos: Thousands converge on US international airports to protest Trump’s travel ban
Jessica Nabongo
Global Politics
What happened to everyone who was going to leave the US if Trump won?
cappuccino at Curto Café in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Business
Rio’s best café lets you pay what you want
Pictured here is Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park.
Science
Is ‘last-chance tourism’ good or bad for endangered places?
Departure board on display at Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Technology
Those ‘flapping’ Solari boards at US train stations are leaving the terminal
Economics
The Assad regime launches a ‘Syria Always Beautiful’ travel ad
A screenshot of the Flyover Country app.
Science
An app that tells you what’s outside your plane window
An Egyptian women shops at a vegetable market in Cairo, Egypt
Culture
Learn Arabic in just 25 years
Travelers make their way through a TSA checkpoint at Reagan National Airport in Washington
Global Politics
Sure, we could fix long airport waits with more money. But TSA has a bigger problem.
Scars from Violence in Baltimore, Vietnam, and Brownsville
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Mai, Tot and Ngoc Bich Ha, Cecilia Tran's mother, stand in front of an Vietnamese airplane.
Culture
A Facebook friend request brought my mom back to Vietnam after 35 years
Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, who was escorted off his Southwest flight on April 6th, blamed the incident on "Islamophobia."
Conflict
‘Inshallah’ — it’s more than just a phrase that gets you in trouble on a plane
Grilled lamb chops from C-Grill in Playa del Carmen.
Culture
It’s worth walking the extra block to find the best food in Mexico’s Playa del Carmen
Freedom From Want, Arctic Travel, Culture of Destruction
Full Episode
A PanAm jet and flight attendant
Culture
Despite our complaints, air travel really has changed the world
Tourists on a sailboat
Environment
Environmentalists fear Americans will ruin Cuba’s biodiversity
Today’s Takeaways: Political Parties, American Cities, Gitmo
Full Episode
Havana airport
Global Politics
US airlines will soon be able to offer hundreds of flights to Cuba every week
Zenith Irfan defied Pakistani social boundaries and set off to honor her father's legacy by taking a motorcycle trip across Pakistan from Lahore to Kashmir.
Culture
A young Pakistani woman hopes her soul-searching motorcycle trip will inspire others
Your Guide to The Weirdest Places in the U.K.
Full Episode
Ivan Watson greets travelers at Toronto's Pearson Airport with a smile, and often a song. It's not what you usually get as you wait to get through airport security.
Lifestyle
This Toronto airport baggage handler makes air travel almost pleasant
Drones help identify objects on Laos's historic Plain of Jars
Conflict
Drones allow access to a historic site in Laos that American bombs made off-limits
Trekking the Annapurna route near Jomsom. Trekkers are critical to Nepal's tourism industry, but the travel warnings boost the cost of travel insurance for them.
Global Politics
Nepal says it’s open for business, but tourists are still staying away
Amtrak Police K-9 teams patrol a busy Pennsylvania Station in the Manhattan borough of New York City, November 25, 2015.
Culture
This Thanksgiving, warnings raise questions about whether now is the time to travel
A ‘Buk’ anti-aircraft battery launches a ground-to-air missile during a Ukrainian army exercise before the war. The weapon is in service with the militaries of both Russia and Ukraine, although Russia says it no longer uses the model identified by Dutch i
Conflict
Malaysia Airlines flight 17: Why wasn’t the airspace closed?
Collecting loyalty points is exploding as a hobby, with credit cards offering increasingly generous sign-up bonuses.
Lifestyle
Obsessed with your frequent flier miles? You’re not alone.
Tima Kurdi, sister of Syrian refugee Abdullah Kurdi, whose sons Alan and Galip and wife Rehan were among 12 people who drowned in Turkey trying to reach Greece, cries while speaking to the media outside her home in British Columbia.
Global Politics
Proposed travel ban poses difficult questions for Syrians in Canada
The view from the tracks
Media
In photos: A view of America from the tracks
La Cocina de Lilliam
Food
Here’s how you get a great bite to eat in Cuba
Big Brother, Bin Laden’s Lost Recordings, Begging for A Break
Full Episode
Jaber Rahil and his wife, Alegra Belo. When they were young, the two fell in love, but Alegra was Jewish, and Jaber was an Arab Christian.
Conflict
A hotel in Israel is named for this pair of star-crossed lovers