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 . . .

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. . . 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
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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?