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Destinations
Ongoing Earthquakes in Greece Cause Many to Flee Santorini
A series of earthquakes on the Greek island of Santorini over the weekend continues into Monday, rattling visitors and residents every 10 or 20 minutes. Experts say they are likely to continue for weeks, causing hundreds of locals and visitors to flee on ferryboats or head to the airport…
— Travel Research Online
Is It Safe to Visit Mexico for Spring Break 2025? What a New State Department Advisory Says
Mexico remains a perennial spring break destination, with a surge in student visitors in March and April, particularly in tourist hotspots like Cancun and Puerto Peñasco, which boasts the closest beach to Arizona. The question of whether travelers can feel safe while traveling there…
— AZ Central
Cheap Flights to Escape Winter at These Destinations
Winter weather has pummeled the U.S. in recent weeks, with the South seeing record-breaking snowfall. But summer could be just a plane ride away. Winter won’t end until late March in the states, but travelers craving warmer days can head to the Southern Hemisphere in the…
— USA Today
Tours and Activities
The Lottery to Raft Grand Canyon National Park's Colorado River Is Open – What to Know
The National Park Service opened a lottery for extended self-guided rafting trips along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park this week, offering hundreds of spots for 2026. The weighted lottery will be open through noon MT on Feb. 25 and will give away 450 permits for…
— Travel+Leisure
4 Places to Experience Bioluminescence in the Continental US
Bioluminescence drove my interest in travel at a young age. I saw something on the Travel Channel about New Zealand’s Waitomo glowworm caves. These gorgeous little worms glow in a bright blue color, clinging to the cave walls. Visitors can venture through the cave system with a…
— Travel Awaits
The 8 Best Places to Celebrate Mardi Gras in 2025
Beads at the ready – Mardi Gras season is in full swing. Taking place between the Twelfth Night of Christmas (January 5) and Shrove Tuesday (which falls on March 4 in 2025), countries around the world mark the holiday with a vibrant season of carnivals. Cities today celebrate Mardi…
— Lonely Planet
Cruise
Riviera Travel Celebrates Valentine's Day With Giveaway for Advisors
Riviera Travel has announced that in light of Valentine’s Day, it is offering travel advisors the opportunity to win a roundtrip Paris river cruise. The company said in a statement that every new Riviera Travel river cruise booking made between Feb. 10-14, 2025, will automatically be…
— Cruise Industry News
Celebrity Cruises Is Taking Destination Immersion to the Next Level on Its Newest Ship
Tired of the disconnect between life on board a cruise ship and the destination your ship is visiting? Celebrity Cruises aims to bridge that gap with a reimagined space on its newest cruise ship, the 3,248-passenger Celebrity Xcel. The cruise line will take the back area of the ship on…
— The Points Guy
Transportation
Washington Plane Crash Has Chilling Echoes of 46-Year-Old Accident
There has been much discussion regarding the crash of American Airlines Flight 5342—a flight that resulted in the death of all on board, as it crashed into the Potomac River just minutes before landing at Washington Reagan National Airport (DCA). A handful of concrete details…
— Fodor's Travel
Flight Attendants Use Duct Tape To Restrain Unruly Passenger After Racist Tirade
Flight attendants on a Fiji Airways flight restrained a passenger using duct tape after she engaged in a “racist and vulgar” tirade. Fiji Airways Flight FJ871 departed from San Francisco on January 18, 2025, bound for Nadi International Airport in Fiji. Approximately halfway through the…
— Travel Noire
Lodging
Taiwanese Hot Spring Hotels for Every Kind of Traveler
Cold weather is a luxury in Taiwan, a subtropical country dominated by high temperatures and humidity for much of the year. So when the mercury dips between November and February, puffy jackets come out, hot pot restaurants get busier, and hot spring resorts fill with people…
— Afar
10 of the Best Hotels in Milan
Visitors pour in to Italy’s richest city lured by its mix of luxury stores and neo-classical architecture, the highlights of which — like the Teatro alla Scala opera house and 19th-century, glass-topped Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II arcade — are found in the centre. But there’s also plenty…
— National Geographic
Other and Odd
Air Service to Israel from JFK Resumes; Hotels Reopen in Time for Spring Travel
With tensions easing a bit in the Middle East, Delta Airlines will become the first US carrier to resume direct service from New York JFK to Tel Aviv, Israel, on April 1, in time for the busy Passover/Easter holidays that bring millions of faith-based tourists to the Holy Land. Israel-based…
— Travel Research Online
U.S. Travel Association Warns of Economic Tourism Disaster After Thousands of Canadian Tourists Cancel Trips in Protest
Canadian travelers decided to fight back against an announcement made by the 47th President of the United States on Saturday to impose a 25% tariff on most imported goods from their country, by canceling their vacation trips to the United States in protest. The travel boycott, in…
— The Travel
Some Travelers Capture Their Vacation Memories With Sketching
Some people prioritize food when they travel, others focus on the local music scene. But for a certain group of visitors, there is nothing more absorbing than settling down in front of a striking scene and putting pen or paintbrush to paper. “I’ve always been fascinated by travel…
— New York Times
Today in History
George Washington Elected President
There were giants in those days. The Electoral College unanimously elected Washington, the only time a president has received 100% of the vote, in 1789 with John Adams elected as his vice president. He was not a…
— Travel Research Online
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