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The One-Percenting of Disney: Who Loses, Who Wins
Every few months, American news outlets erupt with a new round of rueful Disney coverage. Every spring, admission ticket prices shoot skyward, and this week, it hiked its annual…
Foreign SIM Cards Come with Censorship
Bringing an unlocked, out-of-contract smartphone on vacation and buying a temporary local phone number remains far and away the cheapest way to use a mobile phone in Europe. Just be…
Kids Stay and Eat Free in San Diego
Once again, as it has done annually for a while, the city of San Diego, California, has worked with some of its biggest hotels, restaurants, and attractions to offer a slew of deals…
A Camera that Won't Work at Tourist Sights
Instagram is bigger than you thought. This morning, Facebook (which owns it) announced there are now 400 million active users—that's up 100 million since the start of 2015. Soon,…
Miss a Connecting Flight? This Airport Will Pay
Would you pay $42 if it meant you didn't have to worry about missing a connecting flight?Gatwick, London's second-busiest airport (out of the city's six), has launched a new…
TSA's Luggage Lock Skeleton Keys Leaked
Consumerist and Wired report the design of the master skeleton keys used by the TSA to open and inspect your luggage has been leaked on the Web. Now anyone can use a 3-D printer to…
How to Research Your Ancestry on a Trip to Scotland
Scotland's government makes researching your ancestry easier than in most places. Here's where to go in Scotland to find your roots—and what to know before you make the trip.
#1 in #2: Japan Opens First Toilet Museum
I don't know if you've ever sat on one of those futuristic Japanese toilets, but they will change your life. In North America and Europe, toilets plug into the plumbing, but in…
Hilton Yanks Adult Movies
Not like you ever rented one, but porn movies are being eliminated from all Hilton hotels' in-demand movie selection.Said Hilton in a statement, as if it was something you might…
Airline Complaints Soar! Whose Fault Is It?
It's not your imagination: Airfares may be down (as we reported last week), but complaints about U.S. airlines soared more than 20 percent during the first half of this…
Entrancing Video Follows Luggage After It's Checked
Amsterdam's Schiphol airport wants to show you that it has put a lot of cash into building the ultimate baggage delivery system. So it produced this astonishing video by attaching a…
America's Only Thomas the Tank Engine Theme Park Land Opens: Images
The new land, targeted to very small children and based on the wildly popular English characters, opens in Massachusetts.
All National Parks are Free (On These Days)
The National Park System is extending another gift to the American people in the form of fee-free days.And lucky us—there are two in a month, right when the weather is…
Massive Changes at Disney Parks: Two 14-Acre Star Wars Lands and Toy Story Land Coming, and More
Two of the biggest tourist attractions in the world are about to see extreme changes. Disney Parks has announced that it is planning two epic Star Wars-themed expansions for…
Q-tips: The Weirdest Flat Stanley Ever
Among product promotions, this is one of the strangest.Q-tip—yes, that thing you're not supposed to stick deep in your ears, but you do—has launched a campaign featuring the…
Pieces of Lost Space Shuttles Go On Display
The $100 million home of the space shuttle Atlantis, which opened last year, has put Florida's Kennedy Space Center back on the tourism maps. Without giving too much away, the way in…
Hurry! Everything in Canada is 25% Off!
On Tuesday, August 4, the Canadian dollar cratered, suffering its lowest value in 11 years. The loonie, which a few years ago had parity with the U.S. dollar, is now worth only 76¢.…
Poof! Kimpton Loses 7 Hotels in San Francisco
Back in December, when the hotel conglomerate InterContinental Hotels Group purchased boutique hotelier Kimpton, the executives behind the change painted a smiley face on the…
Acapulco Sets Up Special Tourism Safety Force
When gangs overtake your once-glamorous seaside city and force the military to move in and the U.S. to issue a travel warning, you've got a public relations problem.Acapulco is…
The Airlines Are Trying to Shut OTAs Down
Ryanair, the infamous cheapie European carrier, is always making headlines for doing something outrageous, and this week, it's because its upcoming website redesign will do something…
Airbnb Now Recruiting Professional Vacation Home Companies—Is it Moving Away from the "Sharing Economy"?
Airbnb search results in Florida displaying two properties not by homeowners but by established companiesThis summer, Airbnb began slipping a new type of homes into its…
War is Brewing Over the Queen Mary: Petition Alleging Mismanagement is Launched
The condition of the Third Class Dining Room, now used as chair storage, courtesy of RMS Queen Mary Facebook CommunityThe RMS Queen Mary is a rare artifact from the golden era…
Can This 51-Year-Old Cycle Around the World?
On July 24, Scotland resident Peter Smith will set out on from Dumfries on a journey with two goals in mind: To circle the globe and wind up where he started and to smash the…
Popular National Park Site To Be Reservation-Only
The grove of redwood trees at Muir Woods National Monument in Marin County, north of San Francisco, sees about 1 million visitors a year, and the roads around it can no longer handle…