Grand Velas Boutique Hotel Los Cabos Receives Five Diamond Designation From AAA

Hyatt has bought the “me and all hotels” brand from Germany’s Lindner Hotels, a minor expansion of its European portfolio. The deal for the lifestyle hotel brand, which closed Friday, adds a 29th brand to Hyatt’s collection of hotel, resort, and timeshare brands.

A record-setting nearly 71 million Americans are expected to travel for the Fourth of July holiday, cementing this as the summer of travel. 

The first time my family visited the Grand Canyon , we pulled over at a popular lookout, ogled over its sheer size and vastness for an hour, took pictures, then drove home.

Blackstone, one of the world’s largest real estate investors, said Wednesday it had acquired Village Hotels from KSL Capital Partners, a private equity firm specializing in travel and leisure. The deal expands Blackstone’s footprint in the British travel sector amid an apparently growing consumer demand for experiences over goods.

Luxury hotels in the U.S. have recently experienced robust growth in demand and room rates, while economy hotels have declined year-over-year. The numbers for the first five months of the year suggest a break with broad historical patterns.

Now, this is pitching in. A crew of people, including official workers and volunteers, spent three days cleaning up a popular tourist beach in Mexico.

Start your engines—summer has arrived, and with it, all sorts of new hotel options to explore. There’s a major renovation of a Cape Cod classic with an unbeatable beachfront location. Near Yellowstone, design-forward cabins come with their own private wood-fired hot tub. And on the banks of the Kiawah River in South Carolina, a new Auberge Resort offers some serious Lowcountry R&R just minutes from downtown Charleston, yet worlds away from the hustle and bustle. This summer’s most exciting openings aren’t merely places to rest your head—they really help you disconnect from your home life in order to savor the great outdoors. And isn’t that what summer is all about?

If all goes according to plan at IHG Hotels & Resorts, there will be twice as many Hotel Indigo properties in the world.

I recently traveled to Switzerland with my mom, brother, and grandmother to see where my grandmother had immigrated from over 70 years ago.

Spirit Airlines, known for discounted prices with limited in-flight amenities, recently released dozens of U.S. flight deals for as low as $21. These deals can be particularly helpful for travelers looking to plan a last-minute summer getaway, and are flexible on the location or general dates. Travel + Leisure spotted some of the lowest one-way fares including:

Summer is officially here, and Australian airline Qantas is celebrating with a sale that has big savings on trips down under.

Because of a rental car mishap, it was well after dark by the time Catherine Dupree and her father arrived in Canakkale, a city in northwestern Turkey, during a vacation in 2006. As they drove around the city, trying in vain to navigate to their hotel (this was well before the days of reliable mapping apps, like Waze), Ms. Dupree’s father spotted a man walking his dog and asked him for help.