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Indoor Rainforest Coming to Dubai Hotel
El Yunque National Rainforest in Puerto Rico (photo: FreeImages/sue anna joe)The latest over-the-top luxury hotel planned for Dubai is for all those who have found themselves…
Sydney Opera House Getting a $202 Million Renovation
(photo by Bkamprath/Wikimedia Commons)The Sydney Opera House is unquesionably one of Australia's most iconic sights—if we're talking manmade landmarks, it probably tops the…
Dubai's Getting a Hotel with an Indoor Rainforest, Sydney's Opera House Is Getting a Makeover, and More: Today's Travel Briefing
A roundup of travel news from all over
In New Zealand, Bungee Jumping Is Fun Even If You Don't Jump
How to soak up the rugged scenery, human drama, thrills, and chills of bungee jumping—without actually going over the edge
How to Pack 100 Items in a Carry-On, London's 24-Hour Tube Starts, and More: Our Daily Travel Briefing
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…
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…
Senators Demand Answers from the Airlines, Chimps Prove Travel Makes You Smarter, and More: Our Daily Travel Briefing
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…
Best Hotel Loyalty Programs are Named, a National Memorial to Lynching Victims, and More: Our Daily Travel Briefing
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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,…
$7,500 Fine for Using a Phone on a Plane, Transgender Tourist Detained in Dubai, and More: Today's Travel Briefing
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…
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…
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…
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…