2013 › March

Among the last places in Europe that is just beginning to get the tourists in numbers they deserve, after decades of communism and blood rivalries.

A little taste of old Europe is never a bad thing, but you'll need to be almost as rich as a count to afford it.

Haiti is ranked last among 140 countries in travel and tourism competitiveness for 2013 in a recent World Economic Forum analysis. Kudos to Best Western for doing something to turn that around as the hotel chain goes after business travelers in Haiti.

Federal government earmarks? For Alaska? Impossible. We hope the ferry eventually finds a home -- somewhere -- taking visitors and locals from one dock to another.

San Juan Island is beautiful, but perhaps it edged the Hawaiian islands among TripAdvisor readers because they got it mixed up with San Juan, Puerto Rico, which is also an island? Just a theory:)

This tax increase won't have much effect on casual vacationers, but does come into play for larger conventions when meeting planners are comparison shopping across cities, hence this worry.

It would be a much more difficult task to bolster passenger rights on board cruise ships than on planes, but the need is no less necessary.

Continuing on this trend, it’s most likely that increased air traffic is coming in from the East as Asian outbound travel booms.

Google Street View’s first trip to the Canadian Arctic and its images of the ghost town left by Japan’s 2011 earthquake are evidence of Google’s goal to put every inch of the earth online.

United is only one of many airlines that have been unable to execute their plans for growth, which were pinned on the Dreamliner’s promises of fuel-efficient long-distance travel.