Photo story: tombs, turquoise seas and trekking along Turkey's Lycian Way

When Muchi Gubwe was a fledgling hotel concierge in Cape Town, he would often refer to his seasoned colleagues as “moving encyclopedias.”

On the heels of a record-setting summer travel season, this holiday season is likewise shaping up to be a record-breaker for air travel.

Tourists have stopped booking new trips to Turkey. The war in Gaza is deterring Turkey’s tourism bookings.

Major airlines in the United States are expecting record numbers of travelers this year over the Thanksgiving holiday period.

In the two years before the war in Ukraine, a private Boeing 737 linked to Russian oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov criss-crossed the globe, taking in the French Riviera, the Maldives and Seychelles along with world capitals and financial centres.

Eighteen months ago, when the New York-based T writer at large Aatish Taseer began planning his reporting trips for this month’s three-part feature story — an exploration of religious travel in Bolivia, Mongolia and Iraq — he was already well acquainted with the idea of pilgrimage. His first book, the 2009 memoir “Stranger to History,” opens with what is arguably the world’s best-known faith-motivated journey, the hajj to Mecca, and ends with what he describes as a personal pilgrimage to meet his estranged father in Pakistan. In Delhi, India, where Taseer grew up, quick trips for the purpose of worship were commonplace. “People would do a pilgrimage on an ordinary Sunday,” he says, “instead of going to an amusement park.”

The value of inbound visitors to Europe has returned to pre-pandemic levels with domestic tourism in the region also back in positive territory, reveals new research from WTM.

In June, Matvey Usanov, a 28-year-old financial analyst from St. Petersburg, set out on the adventure of a lifetime.

Once the preserve of expats, the notion of Thanksgiving is increasingly embraced in the U.K. as both a gentle practice of seeing family or friends but also as a form of autumnal appreciation; an adult-orientated extension of harvest festivals that most schools still hold in Britain. While adhering to the understandable and delicious importance of turkey and cranberry sauce, top chefs also use Thanksgiving to bring British ingredients to the table. Here are some of the best places to celebrate Anglo-American relations this year

Leisure travel came roaring back from the pandemic lockdowns and has not slowed, with planes jammed, record international hotel prices and more people tackling those once in a lifetime and Bucket List trips they once put off for “someday.” There’s never been a better time to give gifts to travelers, and there has never been a better crop of options. As a very frequent traveler myself, I am constantly testing and tweaking and seeing what works best to make travel better.

Booking Holdings reported a record number of room nights booked in the third quarter and strong gains in its flights business. It expects growth to continue but noted a caveat: Business has slowed down in the Middle East because of the Israel-Hamas war and the company’s current forecast assumes no further expansion of the conflict.

Priority Pass holders traversing John F. Kennedy airport this holiday season will have a little reprieve thanks to its partnership with an expedited security service and lounge space.