Viking has taken delivery of its newest river ship, the Viking Eldir, expanding a fleet that has helped define the modern river cruising experience in Europe.

Built at Meyer’s Neptun Werft shipyard in Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany, the 190-guest vessel is the latest addition to Viking’s signature Longship lineup. The ship will sail the Rhine, Main and Danube rivers — the same routes that turned Viking into the dominant name in European river cruising…

February was a month of forces majeures—unexpected and beyond our control—escalating quickly from snowstorms at home to cartel violence in Mexico to all-out war in the Middle East. As travel advisors scrambled to keep up, many also took a moment to rethink just how to respond, and how to protect themselves from the inevitable complaints and chargebacks that are bound to follow.

Looking for answers, we listened in to a webinar last week in which travel lawyer Tom Carpenter, a travel advisor himself, offered up his best advice.

“Travelers are asking if it’s safe to travel—but for travel advisors, answering with a yes or no creates liability either way,” Carpenter said. “Saying yes creates risk for the client, but saying no means they will lose money, which…

Two full weeks after the partial government shutdown put the brakes on the Global Entry program, the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday renewed the popular option, effective 5 a.m.

Low-risk travelers can pay a fee to pre-register their passport information with Global Entry, and then use dedicated kiosks to skip the lines at US airports when they return from traveling abroad.

Homeland Security put the program on hold on Feb. 22, saying it was forced to “take emergency measures to preserve limited funds” by…