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Sicily Creates Fund to Pay 50% of Vacationers' Costs

Sicily is giving vacationers an offer they can't refuse. The government of this storied Italian island has put aside €500 million (about $595 million) to pay for 50% of the cost of…

Article / Passportable

Rent a Car for a One-Way Road Trip for $20 a Day with No Drop-Off Fees

Every spring, the major rental car companies need to spread their cars from warm-weather cities, where vacationers tend to go in the winter, to locations across the country where the…

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Aloha Also Means Goodbye: Hawaii Extends Stay-at-Home Order

Several U.S. states, including Florida and Georgia, have begun lifting lockdown restrictions in spite of the global pandemic. Not Hawaii, though. On Saturday, Gov. David Ige extended…

Article / Arthur Frommer Online

How the Major Theme Parks Might Reopen

On Monday, the respected site Theme Park Insider published a story that reportedly came from an inside tip. The site claims that Walt Disney World in Orlando is considering reopening…

Article / Arthur Frommer Online

Saving California's Restaurants Means Saving Its Tourism Industry

Food is central to travel. Each year I write a roundup of travel trends for Frommer's, and every time, culinary vacations play a huge role. Over the last decade, tours devoted to…

Article / Passportable

WATCH: Stunning Aerial Footage of Over 400 Airliners Mothballed in the Mojave

When an airline pulls an aircraft from service, pilots can't just leave it at the airport gate and pocket the keys. They have to move the plane somewhere. Various carriers use various…

Article / Passportable

Cunard Releases The Recipe for Its Famous Scones (To Make Up for Their Absence)

We love scones. There's something undeniably comforting about eating a warm one with tea and jam. So after we drop the bad news (that's coming) we'll gift you with a terrific…

Article / Passportable

Florida Beachgoers Share the Sand with the Grim Reaper

Florida-based attorney Daniel Uhlfelder recently tweeted that he planned to start traveling around his state's beaches dressed as Death to send a message. And no, that message is not…

Article / Local Experiences

50+ Places to Find Free, Travel-Themed Virtual Backgrounds for Video Calls

The world's big destinations and attractions have posted digital wallpapers for Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and other video chat platforms—and you can download them all for…

Article / Passportable

Venice's Gondoliers Deliver Food to Isolated Locals Now

It can be difficult, as a visitor, to step off the tourist treadmill in Venice. Until recently, it was a city besieged by tourism, with 60,000 outsiders a day filling streets and…

Article / Passportable

Frank Lloyd Wright Sites Are Sharing Weekly Virtual Visits

We wouldn't mind being quarantined in a Frank Lloyd Wright house. For one thing, the famed architect was all about bringing the outdoors in, which sounds like a promising treatment for…

Article / Passportable

A Facebook Page for Sharing Window Views from Around the World

"If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window!" So wrote Turkish novelist and playwright Mehmet Murat ildan. And while…

Article / Passportable

WATCH: The Year's First Baby Bison Appear in South Dakota

A bison would make a good mascot for social distancing. Though the woolly animals may look invitingly pettable, getting too close can have disastrous consequences for humans—as the…

Article / Arthur Frommer Online

It’s the Pits! The Cancellation of the National Cherry Festival Is Personally Saddening

About four years ago I learned that I was a failure. At cherry spitting, that is. No matter how much I tried—and I lined up four times to show off my non-skills to a judge—I couldn’t…

Article / Outdoor & Adventure

Listen to These Soothing Nature Sounds When You Can’t Explore Outdoors

Make every day Earth Day! These natural soundscapes available for free online will help calm your frazzled nerves and get you dreaming of future explorations.

Article / Passportable

A Reason to Cry in Your Beer: Germany’s Oktoberfest Canceled for 2020

This year's edition of Munich's Oktoberfest—the huge beer and folk festival that's synonymous with the Bavarian region and, in some minds, Germany as a whole—has been canceled. The…

Article / Passportable

Samantha Brown Just Made Some Terrific New Study Guides

Travel television star and all-around lovely person Samantha Brown is schooling her kids at home right now, like so many of us. So she gets it. She knows that 23 minutes off-duty time…

Article / Arthur Frommer Online

Stranded in Peru: A Remarkable Journey Home

In March 2020, the world shut down with surprising speed. Americans who were abroad then either got home just in time, got stuck where they were, or undertook journeys that would have…

Article / Passportable

Too Soon? Jacksonville, Florida, Already Reopening Beaches

Jacksonville, Florida, is among the first locations in the United States to loosen social distancing restrictions—the city's beaches reopened to the public Friday at 5pm. According to…

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How to Celebrate Massachusetts Patriots' Day Events Online

Each year on the third Monday of April, Massachusetts commemorates the start of the American Revolutionary War with Patriots' Day. The statewide celebration includes a parade in…

Article / Slideshows

Hotel Desserts You Can Make at Home—from Sacher Torte to DoubleTree Cookies

This may surprise you, but lots of world-famous desserts originated in hotel restaurants. Boston cream pie came from the Omni Parker House in Boston, peach melba from the Savoy in…

Article / Slideshows

The Unmissable Mural Masterpieces Hidden Around New York City

Not all masterpieces are found inside museums. On walls throughout New York City —including in unexpected places—some of the most talented artists in history left us works of lasting…

Article / Miscellaneous

In an Isolation Innovation, Walking Tour Guides Mount Live Virtual "Tours" You Take from Home

Trained walking tour guides have found a new way to keep going during the emergency. They're running live, regularly scheduled webinar explorations of world attractions that anyone can…

Article / Student

Fluent Forever App Offers Two Free Months of Language Lessons for Frommer’s Readers

Start learning a new language—for free!—with this special offer. 

Article / Passportable

Team Claims to Have Set a New "Cannonball Run" Record

Earning a title that will surely go down in the annals of idiocy, a team of drivers has apparently set a new record for the so-called "Cannonball Run." The feat, based on the 1970s…