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A Look Ahead to When Travel Returns Nov. 08, 2020
By Victor Block Middle seats in the planes of some airlines are vacant. Passengers and crew members ... Read More
Short Takes On Pandemic Tourism and Lunar Loos Jul. 27, 2020
Pandemic, Schmandemic. Visit Missouri ... Gov. Mike Parson has argued forcefully against expanding M... Read More
Unfriendly Skies for Consumers Jun. 16, 2020
Air traffic in America is surging! That's the good news for the airlines. The bad news is that the i... Read More
Summer People Are Already Here. And Are Snowbirds Staying? May. 28, 2020
When the pandemic hit this winter, city people with second homes moved into them. This upset the rhy... Read More
When Normalcy Returns, Celebrate in Boston May. 09, 2020
By Robert Selwitz Whenever leisure travel again makes sense, Boston should be a prime destination ch... Read More
Quarantined in a Cairo Casino Apr. 22, 2020
The first strange thing I noticed that morning as I came down the stairs from my apartment was that ... Read More
Happening Hotels in LoDo, Denver Aug. 03, 2019
By Nicola Bridges Denver's Lower Downtown district — LoDo to locals — has undergone a tr... Read More
Do You Really Want to Travel So Much? Jun. 25, 2019
Hypertourism has become the curse of desirable places all over the world. It refers to the swarms of... Read More
Finding People to Fill Empty Spaces Jun. 11, 2019
A tiny French mountain village with a long name, L'Hospitalet-pres-l'Andorre, has lost half its popu... Read More
Selfie-Inflicted Deaths a Sign of Bigger Problems Jun. 07, 2019
By November 2013, the term "selfie" had been used so frequently that the Oxford English Dictionary c... Read More
Reporting from Rwanda at the Gorilla Summit May. 23, 2019
When we touched down in Kigali, Rwanda, last Wednesday evening, oddly, there were no gorillas there ... Read More
American Scott Hapgood Deserves Our Sympathy and Praise May. 09, 2019
Details are now emerging in the tragic case of Scott Hapgood, a Connecticut man who took his family ... Read More
Glamping It Up Around Mesa, Arizona Apr. 06, 2019
By Don Heimburger Many years ago, wanting to impress my new bride with my camping skills, I suggest... Read More
When Customer Service Bumps Up Against Economic Reality Mar. 26, 2019
On a recent business trip to a popular beach resort in California, I was called upon to find a good ... Read More
Spend a Holiday Marching With Penguins Mar. 17, 2019
By Gay Courter If you are hankering to see "Happy Feet" up close and personal, you probably think yo... Read More
Visit New Zealand's Cities -- Large and Small Mar. 16, 2019
By Bonnie and Bill Neely When we visited Christchurch on the South Island of New Zealand (now rename... Read More
Environmental Malpractice Washes Onto the Beach Aug. 21, 2018
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency over an environmental disaster that he ins... Read More
An Easy Way to Lower the Trade Deficit Aug. 14, 2018
From the first day Donald Trump started running for president, he has raged against America's large ... Read More
Souls vs. Fossil Fuels Aug. 10, 2017
There are regions where economic stress coexists with a beloved way of life. It can be hard to make ... Read More
The Day Freedom Died in Cuba Mar. 23, 2016
In 1959, Fidel Castro and his communist henchmen put a bullet through the head of freedom. Proclaimi... Read More
