NY's Tavern On The Green Restaurant Bites The Dust

NY's Tavern On The Green Restaurant Bites The Dust
NY's Tavern On The Green, Once Highest-grossing US Restaurant, Bites The Dust Amid Recession
Stockholm: the complete guide
Canals that freeze to skateable solidity, clusters of friendly, fuggy coffee- houses, a pristine Medieval Old Town tinselled with Advent-calendar snow â€" Sweden’s capital is magical in winter. Yet here’s an odd thing: this is a Stockholm that few tourists ever get to see.

Chances Better Checked Bags Will Arrive With You

Chances Better Checked Bags Will Arrive With You
Odds Are Improving That Holiday Travelers And Their Bags Will Arrive Together
Madrida lesson in the dark arts
Being gawked at by 19th century totems from Papua New Guinea is not what I expected when I checked into the fiercely modern Hotel Urban in central Madrid.

Video: Air Security Tightens
The recent security changes at airports and on planes were sudden and strict. As Wyatt Andrews tells us, there were some major delays for passengers who were flying internationally.
Bookie tips Monarch as 'next airline to go bankrupt'
Paddy Power has opened a book on which airline will go bust next, and claims that the UK's largest charter airline, Monarch, is favourite to fold.

Jim Henson Puppets At Mississippi Museum
Sesame Street Puppets Created By Jim Henson On Display At Museum In His Home State Mississippi
Fresh snowfall and freezing weather predicted for New Year’s Eve
Revellers celebrating the new year across Britain face the prospect of fresh snow and freezing weather, forecasters have warned. Temperatures will fall to minus 3C (27F) in most of England and Wales on Thursday night, New Year’s Eve, and minus 8C in Scotland, with widespread snow showers predicted.

Security Reviews Under Way After Airliner Attack

Security Reviews Under Way After Airliner Attack
In Wake Of Close Call On Northwest Jetliner, Govt Reviewing Security And Watch List Procedures
Bargain travel destinations for 2010
The long shadow of the recession still lies across our holiday plans, and our painful transition from minted to skinted has changed our travel habits.

US Seeks Global Security Stepup On US-bound Travel
US-bound Passengers Get Patted Down As US Asks Airlines Worldwide To Tighten Security
Mozambique's lost islands
You get your own immigration officer if Vamizi is your first stop in Mozambique.

Video: Winter Weather Nightmare

Video: Winter Weather Nightmare
On the night before Christmas, holiday travel has been hampered by severe winter weather. Barry Petersen reports from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport, the site of many flight cancellations.

Been Away From The Airport? A Lot Has Changed
Infrequent Fliers Who Travel This Christmas Will Find That A Lot Has Changed Since Last Year
Delay your journeys to Christmas Day, drivers advised
Drivers have been advised to delay long journeys until Christmas Day as black ice and freezing fog continue to make conditions dangerous on roads in northern Britain.

Miami Offers A Taste Of Haiti, No Passport Needed

Miami Offers A Taste Of Haiti, No Passport Needed
Murals, Voodoo-inspired Designs, Griot, Compas Music Point The Way To Haiti In Miami
Ice warnings for millions planning Christmas getaway
Millions of people setting off to visit friends and relatives for Christmas were warned today to take care on treacherously icy roads after a fatal coach crash in Cornwall.

'We are possibly the luckiest Eurostar customers out there'
Sitting quietly on the 7.10am Eurostar from Paris to London, Terry Karydas’s family were under strict instructions not to mention how easy their journey had been.

Social Networking Changing The Way We Travel

Social Networking Changing The Way We Travel
Facebook, Twitter And Other Social Networks Are Changing The Way We Travel
Eurostar promises to resume service after 'fluffy snow' debacle
The beleagured bosses of Eurostar promised to restart its Channel Tunnel train services tomorrow after blaming a three-day shutdown on the wrong type of fluffy snow.

Video: Digging Out From Deadly Storm
Five deaths are blamed on the slow-moving system that dumped nearly two feet of snow on the mid-Atlantic states. Bianca Solarzano has the latest.
Where to ski, month-by-month, this season
There’s no arguing now. In November, it looked as though only Canada was going to have a winter, but weather patterns seem to have shifted decisively â€" as you might have noticed. For the past 10 days, winter has had an icy grip not just here, but on the Alps and the Rockies, too, with temperatures plunging to -20C in places, and heavy snow in some resorts.

Video: East Braces for Nasty Weather

Video: East Braces for Nasty Weather
A major storm is working its way up the East Coast, bringing heavy snow, ice and nightmare travel the weekend before Christmas. Jeff Glor and Dave Price report.

Miss. Art Museum Announces Jim Henson Exhibit
Mississippi Art Museum Announces Exhibit On 'Muppets' Creator Jim Henson
Mystery Guest awards: the best and worst of 2009
Top stays of the year

Shaolin Monks Plan Travel Venture, Share Listing

Shaolin Monks Plan Travel Venture, Share Listing
China's Shaolin Monks Planning Travel Venture, Will Raise Funds Through Share Listing
British Airways Christmas strike spiked by court ruling
British Airways has won a High Court injunction blocking a 12-day cabin crew strike that would have brought Christmas travel chaos to almost one million travellers.

Fewer Flights, Rising Fares At Some Big Airports
Travelers And Airports Feel The Pain As Airlines Cut Flights And Shuffle Routes
British Airways strike up in the air, but flight prices still soar
Air fares have soared by over 300 per cent on certain routes following the British Airways strike announcement this week.

British Air Seeks Injunction on Strikers
Airline Launches Legal Action as Cabin Crew Plans 12-Day Walkout During Holiday Travel Season
The best of South Africa: Clive Rice
When Kevin Pietersen, arguably the best batsman in the world, comes in to bat against his native South Africa in the first Test match that begins in Centurion on December 16, the man responsible for luring him to England will be watching with especial interest.

The Decade In Travel: Technology And Terrorism
Travel In The Last Decade Was Changed Profoundly By Technology And Terrorism
Travel advice Q&A: how the BA strikes will affect you
Will all BA flights be cancelled between December 22 and January 2?

Canada Carrier Not Miffed By Grenada Flight Snub

Canada Carrier Not Miffed By Grenada Flight Snub
Sunwing Airlines Says It Was Not Bothered By Grenada Ignoring Carrier's 1st Arrival

Video: Storm Hits Two Thirds of U.S.

Video: Storm Hits Two Thirds of U.S.
A massive winter storm has left many portions of the U.S. without power or access to transportation. Jim Axelrod reports.

Coast Guard Finds Missing Cruise Ship Crew-member
Coast Guard Finds Missing Cruise Ship Crew-member Who Went Overboard Near Miami
Burma: to go or not to go?
The rising sun is burning the mist from the mountains that flank Inle Lake as my wife and I set off from our hotel in a long, narrow wooden boat.

French Investigate Turbulent Rio-Paris Flight

French Investigate Turbulent Rio-Paris Flight
Experts Investigate Air France Distress Call About Turbulence On November Rio-Paris Flight
How to get fit for skiing
Got a question or some advice about getting in shape for the season, skiing with an injury or anything else to do with getting ski fit?

Surveys Reveal Best & Worst Airlines

Surveys Reveal Best & Worst Airlines
Zagat and Smarter Travel Readers' Latest Ratings of Carriers on Service, Cabin Cleanliness, Luggage Policies, More
Dresden: Germany's perfect Christmas city
Harry Potter would feel at home in the former mews of the Royal Palace in Dresden this yuletide.

Grenada's Tourism Chief Suspended Over Flight Snub
Granada's Tourism Chief Suspended For Ignoring 1st Arrival Of Flight From Canada
Overlanding then and now
Tell us your tales of overlanding and send your best pictures for a chance to win a seat on Dragoman's new Indochina Explorer trip. Use the comment form at the end of the article to submit your stories of adventure, from the hilarious to desperate times, a maximum of 300 words.

Travel Briefs

Travel Briefs
Travel Briefs
Dubai cheaper than Doncaster as room rates tumble
In the wake of Dubai’s financial crisis, a night in a five-star hotel there is now cheaper than a night in a three-star property in Doncaster. Four-star hotels, including the Al Manar, are offering rates of less than £30 a night, and prestigious five-star city-centre properties have slashed prices to well below £100. Rooms in the luxury Taj Palace are going for £89 a night, the Concorde is on sale at £75 and a studio apartment at the five-star Grand Midwest is now just £49. A night at the three-star Holiday Inn in Doncaster currently costs £60.

Woman Gives Birth On Flight Diverted To Denver

Woman Gives Birth On Flight Diverted To Denver
Woman Gives Birth To Baby Boy On Southwest Flight Headed From Chicago To Salt Lake

World's Largest Cruise Ship Visits Haiti

World's Largest Cruise Ship Visits Haiti
World's Largest Cruise Ship Visits Port In Impoverished Haiti, Stoking Hopes For Tourism
Seeing Santa’s bones in bustling Bari
Bari’s atmospheric centre, a honeycomb of cobbled lanes, historic churches and intimate corners, is a picture of southern Italian life.

National Geographic Adventure Magazine Closes

National Geographic Adventure Magazine Closes
National Geographic Adventure Latest Consumer Magazine To Close As Advertising Falls
The complete guide to Milan
From the December issue of The Sunday Times Travel Magazine

Kan. Regulators Prep For Dodge Casino Opening
Kan. Regulators Prep For State-owned Dodge City Casino Opening Later This Month
The 10 most underrated ski resorts
Red Mountain, BC, Canada

First Hotel Opening At CityCenter Project In Vegas

First Hotel Opening At CityCenter Project In Vegas
First Hotel, Vdara, Opening At CityCenter Project On Las Vegas Strip
The top 10 wacky festive events
The festive season doesn’t always have to involve watching endless television repeats and braving the Boxing Day sales. Why not spice up your Christmas this year and instead head to one of many wacky events taking place.

Science Group Offers Green Travel Advice
Science Group Offers Green Travel Advice For The Holidays: Take Bus Or Train
Tips to make the most of your hotel
Tricky things, hotels. They’re full of staff, in a variety of uniforms, who are all busy smiling at you and asking if they can help. Can they? Sure â€" you just need to know what to ask, and how to behave once you have.

Video: Driving Along the Silk Road
The Silk Road, China's most notorious trade route for the last two millennia, now features thousands of miles of modern expressways. CBS News' Terry McCarthy reports from the oasis city of Turpan.
The simple life: stay on a Shropshire farm
It’s not everybody’s idea of luxury. In fact, it’s nobody’s idea of luxury. But when I asked my brother-in-law if he’d like to bring his three boys to stay with me in a place with no electricity or running water, he said yes immediately.

Video: Distracted Pilot Recordings

Video: Distracted Pilot Recordings
Harry Smith reports on the Federal Aviation Administration's recent release of audio tapes revealing crew members from a Northwest Airlines flight, which flew 100 miles past its target destination, speaking with air traffic controllers.

FAA Transcripts Show Efforts To Reach Flight 188

FAA Transcripts Show Efforts To Reach Flight 188
FAA Transcripts Show Controllers Trying To Reach Northwest Flight That Overflew Minneapolis
Oasis of the Seas: the Times review
It’s always sunny in Florida unless there’s a hurricane or the world’s largest cruise ship is blocking out the light. Sixteen decks loom above me as I beetle up the gangway and through the passenger entrance to be swallowed into the belly of the beast. Oasis of the Seas dominates the skyline like a giant municipal building with funnels, visible from miles away as you drive towards its home port of Fort Lauderdale.

Russia: No Space For Space Tourists
Russian Official Says No Space For Tourists At International Space Station For Now
The Costa Smeralda on the cheap
It was what you might term a challenge. We were staying at a five-star hotel near Porto Cervo on the Costa Smeralda in northeast Sardinia and one of the poshest parts of the Mediterranean island. But our aim was to spend as little as possible and still have a good holiday.

Americans Search For Cheaper Thanksgiving Trips
Skip The Plane, Take The Train? More Americans Looking For Cheaper Thanksgiving Travel Options
The Top 10 cities to visit in 2010
Istanbul

3 Airlines Fined in Minn. Tarmac Stranding

3 Airlines Fined in Minn. Tarmac Stranding
Passengers Were Left in Plane Overnight after Airline Workers Refused to Open Up Terminal After Hours
A picture (of Michigan) is worth a thousand words . . .

Posted at 8 a.m. CDT
. . . or five thousand bucks.

Shutterbugs, listen up: The Pure Michigan Photo Contest is accepting summer photography submissions through Sept. 29. Up to five images of the Great Lake state can be loaded each day at www.puremichiganphotocontest.com.

The only requirements are that your photos be from or of Michigan places (obviously). Once photos are up, online votes are tallied for potential “People’s Choice” awards, and budding photographers are offered chance to apply to compete for a $5,000 prize in the Spring Pro’s Competition.

Same flight + different airline code = £225 out of pocket
Fancy a December city break in Denmark? If you'd booked the SK502 from London to Copenhagen, returning on the SK1507 with SAS last week, you'd have paid £126.90.

More Americans Expected To Travel For Thanksgiving
More Americans Expected To Travel For Thanksgiving After Last Year's Drop; Most Opt For Car
Teenage tearaways in Egypt
When I examined Daisy’s rucksack at Gatwick, I was worried. In six days’ time we would be climbing a mountain â€" Mount Sinai, a spire of relentless pink rock twice as tall as Snowdon.

Video: H1N1 May Rise During Holidays

Video: H1N1 May Rise During Holidays
The CDC reported that the H1N1 virus was widespread in 43 states last week, down from 46. Jeff Glor reports that there is worry for a new spike of infections with holiday travel.

Cruise Ships Will Not Be Used For Olympic Lodging

Cruise Ships Will Not Be Used For Olympic Lodging
Plan To Use Cruise Ships For Lodging At Vancouver Olympics Is Dead In The Water
Leave the kids in a ski crèche and hit the slopes
My history on skis isn’t impressive: I have crashed on ice, damaged my knee badly (twice), suffered the indignity of emergency rescue and, perhaps worst of all, been filmed by my husband, Kenny, going down a “lazy mile” in Vermont, which revealed that I ski as upright as Mary Poppins dropping to earth with her umbrella.

FAA Glitch Causes Widespread US Air Travel Delays
FAA Says Widespread Delays, Cancellations In US Due To Problem With Flight Plan System
Signs of the times 2009
We had hundreds and hundreds of entries along with many millions of hits on this year's Signs of the times competition.

Air Travel Dip Expected for Thanksgiving

Air Travel Dip Expected for Thanksgiving
Fewer Americans Will Fly, but Overall Number of Travelers Estimated to be 38.4 Million
Better holiday offers for solo travellers
One surprising effect of the recession is the increasing number of single people taking holidays, including short breaks and packages, on their own because friends and family cannot afford to join them.

Ship With 100 Tourists Stuck In Antarctic Ice

Ship With 100 Tourists Stuck In Antarctic Ice
Russian Icebreaker Carrying Over 100 Tourists Stuck In The Ice Around Antarctica
Chalet Chef 2010: the winners
Our Chalet Chef finalists gathered in London yesterday to fight it out for the title of The Times Chalet Chef 2010.

Priceline.com Says Airfares Vary Around Holidays

Priceline.com Says Airfares Vary Around Holidays
Priceline.com Says Airfares Vary Around Holidays
Twilight and other vampire locations
Unless you have been asleep in a coffin filled with earth from your mother country, you will know by now about the Twilight phenomenon and its impact on the small town of Forks, in Washington state.

Mexico Plans Big Gulf Tourism Center Near Texas

Mexico Plans Big Gulf Tourism Center Near Texas
Mexico Announces Plan For Big Gulf Tourism Center Near Texas Border

British Airways, Iberia Agree to Merger

British Airways, Iberia Agree to Merger
New Airline, if it Comes to Fruition, Would Be 3rd Largest in the World, Europe's Biggest
Naomi Wolf returns to Scotland
I was in my mid-twenties when I last lived in Scotland; it was the late Eighties and I had to move north to follow a brooding, motorcycle-riding Marxist Scot.

Unions Prod Obama To Fix Ailing Airline Industry

Unions Prod Obama To Fix Ailing Airline Industry
Unions Ask Administration's Help, Say More Regulation Needed, As Airline Industry's Woes Mount
The smart guide to travel blogging
The winner of the Lonely Planet's 2009 Best Travelogue award, Tom Fewins, is candid about the success of his blog, World in Slow Motion.

Public Gets Peek Into 'Little Rock Nine' Safe Home

Public Gets Peek Into 'Little Rock Nine' Safe Home
Public To See Restored Ark. Home Where Black Students Gathered Daily While Integrating School
New York is going cheap this winter
This winter New York is on sale, offering some of the best hotel rates in recent years. An unprecendented 8,000 rooms have been added to New York's hotel stock this year, and without your business, they'll be empty.

Fans Of VisitNH Facebook Page Get Discounts

Fans Of VisitNH Facebook Page Get Discounts
Fans Of VisitNH Facebook Page Get Monthly Tourism, Travel Discounts
Europe's 20 best Christmas markets 2009
Christmas markets seem to be getting more popular by the year, judging by the number of you who read last year's guide.

Tourism Downturn Leads Bahamas Resort To Close

Tourism Downturn Leads Bahamas Resort To Close
Tourism Downturn Leads Bahamas Resort To Close
Welcome back to Rwanda
On my first day in Kigali, I had lunch on the veranda of the Banana hotel, eating perfect grilled fresh fish from Lake Kivu.

A Scottish monastery retreat
Yoga retreats? Light- weight. Spa breaks? Mollycoddled. I am kneeling on a cold stone floor, surrounded by shaven-headed men in hooded white robes.

WWII Museum Adds Theater, Restaurant And "canteen"

WWII Museum Adds Theater, Restaurant And "canteen"
Tom Hanks, Patricia Clarkson Look On As WWII Museum Debuts Theater, Restaurant And 'canteen'

Royal Caribbean Exec Says Few H1N1 Incidents

Royal Caribbean Exec Says Few H1N1 Incidents
Royal Caribbean Says Onboard H1N1 Incidents Few, Optimistic About Ability To Minimize Exposure
20 great trips to use up 2009 holiday
One day left

Baggage Bandits Grab and Go Act Too Easy?

Baggage Bandits Grab and Go Act Too Easy?
Phoenix Police Bust Couple for Luggage Thefts from Baggage Carousels

Dubai Delays Debut Of Tallest Tower To Early 2010
It's No Tall Tale: World's Highest Skyscraper In Dubai Won't Open Until January Next Year
A female going solo in Tajikistan
Tajikistan may not have reached the top of most people’s ‘must-see’ destination lists quite yet, but this remote country is doing its best to attract tourists and to compete with its neighbours, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, both of which see quite a lot of tourist traffic.

Cities Host Shows About Da Vinci Art, Inventions

Cities Host Shows About Da Vinci Art, Inventions
Da Vinci Mode: Shows About Art, Invention Around The Country

Sapling From Anne Frank House Idaho-bound

Sapling From Anne Frank House Idaho-bound
Chestnut Tree Sapling From Anne Frank House Idaho-bound

Video: NASA's Future in Question
After NASA successfully test-fired a new prototype for the next generation manned spacecraft, many are wondering: what's next? As Daniel Seiberg reports, NASA's future is in serious question.
The six best UK foodie breaks
It’s the perfect recipe for a lip-smacking weekend break. Take six top British chefs. Sprinkle generously across the country. Then grill them for an hour about their favourite destinations for a gastro-themed getaway, garnished with appetising places to stay, a tasty restaurant or two and lots of spicy suggestions for sampling the freshest local produce. Finally, add stock details: all the costs and contacts you’ll need to sample these lovely foodie regions for yourself. And serve?

Haunted Hotels Boast of Ghosts

Haunted Hotels Boast of Ghosts
Seeking Guests, Claim Spirits Reside in Them; CBS News Travel Editor Peter Greenberg Brave Enough to Fill in Viewers

Largest Cruise Ship Ever, Oasis Of Seas, Sets Sail
World's Largest Cruise Liner _ Oasis Of The Seas _ Sets Sail For Miami From Finnish Shipyard
10 cosy British inns
Anchor Inn, Lower Froyle, Hampshire

Military Notified Too Late To Launch Fighters
Military Says Fighters Should Have Been Launched When Northwest Flight Overshot Airport
50 years of the London Waterbus
In the age of Nintendo Wiis and high adrenalin theme parks, it's hard to believe that a gentle canal boat trip in London could still be pulling in the crowds.