Traveling Tod

The holiday season means busy days at the airport. When you’re making air travel plans, remember that the busiest days are those immediately before and after a holiday. If you can, avoid those days – try to travel two or three days before or two or three days after, and even consider traveling on the [...]

The Leaning Tower of Pisa, which may be the world’s best-known lopsided structure, is an enduring attraction in the Northern Italian city of Pisa. The nearly 200-foot high tower has undergone years of stabilization work to ensure that visitors can continue to admire its classic architectural beauty. Construction of the tower, which is the bell [...]

Of all the international destinations being booked for the remainder of 2011 by clients of Travel Leaders, one – London, England – has had a big resurgence in popularity. Rising to number three in Travel Leaders’ 2011 Fall Travel Trends Survey, London is now close to the number one ranking it held for many years. [...]

Las Vegas reclaimed its top spot in the recent Fall Travel Trends Survey conducted by Travel Leaders. The desert glamour spot had consistently ranked as the top choice of travelers booking a vacation in the U.S., but recently lost that position to Orlando, Fla., and its fantastic theme parks. The 2011 Fall Travel Trends Survey, [...]

Hoover Dam, located just 30 miles from Las Vegas, Nevada, recently marked 75 years of water control and hydroelectric power production on the Colorado River. Spectacular new views of this Depression-era engineering wonder are now available from the nearly 900-foot-high O’Callaghan-Tillman Memorial Bridge, which allows vehicles to cross Black Canyon about 1,500 feet downriver from [...]

Although the island paradise known as Fiji covers a wide 75,000-aquare-mile area swath in the South Pacific, only 10 percent of is actually land. But, that land is exactly what you might imagine the South Pacific to be: lush, mountainous islands surrounded by clear blue water and edged with sandy beaches that are fringed with [...]

Most credit card users in the U.S. are accustomed to swiping their cards through a machine that reads the information stored on the magnetic stripe, then signing their name on a paper receipt or electronic signature pad. Outside the U.S. – including many countries in Europe, Asia and South America – banks and retailers have [...]

September 11 marks the tenth anniversary of the day that terrorists killed more than 3,000 people at the World Trade Center in New York City; at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., just outside Washington, D.C.; and in a field near Shanksville, Pa., about 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. In New York, a new 9/11 Memorial [...]

A trip to Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., or Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., is an essential part of the American experience for many families. However, Disney is very much a global enterprise, and you can also visit Disney parks in Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong and soon in Shanghai. Tokyo Disneyland, part of the Tokyo [...]

The distinctive bouquet of wine has hovered over Northern California’s Napa Valley since the mid-1800s, when settlers discovered that the area’s Mediterranean climate and rolling hills were ideal for growing grapes. Local vintners made the leap from commercial to premium wine production in the 1960s. In 1976, a Chardonnay and a Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa [...]