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London's 24-Hour Tube Finally Starts

There can be a penalty to being first: You can do it wrong. That's what happened to London's miraculous Underground system. It was the first of its kind in the world when it opened…

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Steve Wynn's $4.2B Casino Opens in Macau

Six years ago, when Las Vegas resort impresario Steve Wynn embarked on a new project in Macau, China, times were better there. But gaming income in the tiny principality have been…

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Senators Demand Answers from the Airlines, Chimps Prove Travel Makes You Smarter, and More: Our Daily Travel Briefing

A roundup of travel news from all over

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How to Pack 100 Items in a Carry-On

Watch as this industrious former Bond Girl (Die Another Day) named Rachel Grant shows us how to neatly pack more than 100 things—including a full rail of 23 hanging outfits—into a…

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Best Hotel Loyalty Programs are Named, a National Memorial to Lynching Victims, and More: Our Daily Travel Briefing

A roundup of travel news from all over

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New Alabama Memorial to Racist Lynchings

It's been a long road, but the state of Alabama will receive major acknowledgment of its role in some of America's most painful historical moments. Equal Justice Initiative, a…

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There's a New Low-Cost Shuttle in Texas

There's good budget travel news in Texas, one of the tricker American states for tourists to see without a rental car.Now rolling this week: Shofur, which is serves 12 daily…

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Best Hotel Loyalty Programs for 2016 Are Named

How easy it is to earn a free stay from a hotel chain? U.S. News has released its annual appraisal of the best and worst hotel loyalty programs—and the previous winner has been…

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Senators Demand Answers from Delta, Southwest

In the past month alone, service on two major U.S. airlines ground to a halt because of computer glitches. Now, some Senators demand to know why the country's airlines are falling…

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Is it OK to Pee in the Pool?

And now, this.Surely your summer excursions have taken you to a swimming pool somewhere around the globe. Maybe you heard about the recent outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis, or…

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Chimp Study: Travel Makes You Smarter

Findings published last month in the journal eLife indicate that travel broadens the mind and makes you more innovative. A seven-year experiment in the field among 70 animals in…

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Harry Potter Play Price Hits $10,768, the Hotel in Two Countries at Once, and More: Our Daily Travel Briefing

A roundup of news from all over

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This Hotel is in Two Countries at Once

The Hotel Arbez in the European village of La Cure is, bizarrely, located in two countries at once. Originally a grocery/pub, the building was bureaucratically cleaved in two when an…

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Ticket to New Harry Potter Play Costs $10,768

London's newest tourist attraction is Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a two-part sequel to the Harry Potter books. Bizarrely for the most popular character franchise of all time,…

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Rare Michael Jackson Icons Move to Vegas

Michael Jackson may be gone, but he has found new live as a tourist attraction. The Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas has convinced the estate of Michael Jackson to loan it…

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$7,500 Fine for Using a Phone on a Plane, Transgender Tourist Detained in Dubai, and More: Today's Travel Briefing

A roundup of travel news from all over

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Booking.com Pulls Plug on Last-Minute App

After only a year and half on the market, Booking.com is euthanizing Booking Now, its app specifically designed for last-minute hotel deals.When it was released in January…

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Using a Mobile Phone in Flight? That'll Be $7,500

China's not putting up with any more monkey business, do you hear?A draft amendment to the country's Civil Aviation Law calls for fines of up to 50,000 yuan (USD $7,535) for…

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Dubai Detains Tourist for Being Transgender

Canadian transgender YouTube personality Gigi Gorgeous says she was detained in Dubai's airport, interrogated for five hours, and summarily denied entry to the United Arab…

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Of the Many Popular Tourist Destinations, Only a Tiny Handful Deserve to be Regarded as So Possibly Unsafe as to Warrant Your Avoiding Them

One of the oddities in financial matters is that a large number of successful Wall Street types make their money by betting on those stocks whose prospects are bad.  After all, the…

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Significant New Travel Developments in London and Orlando Will Have an Impact on Your Own Forthcoming Vacation There

What's new in London?  Probably the most important development is the completion of a ten-story tower atop the Tate Modern museum. Not only has the exhibition space…

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The International Summer Program at Cambridge University is Apparently the Largest of the Learning Vacations, But Requires Early Applications

It's obviously too late to sign up for a summer vacation stay at one of the great English-language universities that open their classrooms and residence halls each July and August to…

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Amtrak Passengers Often Forfeit a Great Deal of Money by Failing to Inquire About the Price of Earlier or Later Trains

A rule of train travel, too often overlooked, is that successive Amtrak departures to the same destination are often priced differently. By failing to inquire about the…

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Free TV on American Airlines, Booze Ban in Bali, and More: Today's Travel Briefing

A roundup of travel news from all over

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American Airlines Makes In-Flight TV Free

Looks like JetBlue and Virgin America have finally forced the monolithic major carriers to up their games. A few months ago, Delta finally recognized one of the things passengers…