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Are you still a little giddy from the magical moments of totality during Monday’s solar eclipse? Or did clouds swoop in to block your view? Maybe you just couldn’t make it to the path of totality this time. No matter what, the question now is “Where and when will it happen again?”

Fragrance is superb at creating a sense of place - and they are powerful sensory weapons for luxury hotels. Whether it’s a flickering, highly fragranced reminder of a perfect holiday, a signal of a forthcoming trip or an opportunity to dip into a beautifully curated world, these candles will help your mother dream of her next vacation.

Miamians are excited. The much-anticipated, long-awaited second phase of The Underline, Miami’s developing 10-mile linear park and multimodal path, opened on April 24.

Hopie Stockman Hill and Grier Stockman grew up in an old farmhouse in a sylvan pocket of New Jersey. They played in wheat fields, craggy apple orchards and dense forests; built birdhouses and painted murals. The sisters’ childhood, spent merging art with nature, inspired their latest wallpaper collection from Block Shop, their textile, art and design studio, which combines a breezy California aesthetic with Indian printing and weaving techniques. The seven new patterns, which are printed on paper, fiber and grass cloth, include a peony motif that’s a homage to the blooms their mother grew, while also referencing the Austrian Wiener Werkstätte designer Dagobert Peche. “We envisioned an Anne Bancroft-esque grande dame with a sky-high collection of art books, listening to ‘Madama Butterfly’while harvesting her beets,” says Stockman Hill, the CEO and creative director of the studio. “These are the wallpapers you find in her home.” The Block Shop store, which opened in Los Angeles’s Atwater Village neighborhood this past December, further extends the sisters’ canvas with a harmonious blend of color and texture. A bronze snail door handle greets you on the way in, while the shelves are brimming with Apuglian splatterware dishes, rare books on décor and semi-fine jewelry, as well as the brand’s signature textiles.

As someone who struggles with claustrophobia, indulging in my passion for travel can be challenging, particularly during long-haul flights.

Spirit Airlines said on Monday that it would delay delivery of new Airbus planes and furlough pilots to save money as it seeks to overcome several setbacks, including a blocked merger, engine problems and a lackluster recovery from the pandemic.

If you're planning on viewing the rare, total solar eclipse when it passes over the U.S. on Monday, it's not too late to pick up a pair of special eclipse-viewing glasses

As part of the effort to combat overcrowding at U.S. national parks, Mount Rainier National Park in Washington will require advance reservations to visit starting this summer.

An Alaska Airlines cabin crew blocked the cockpit with a beverage cart to stop a passenger from accessing the cockpit, an affidavit states.

Frontier Airlines is guaranteeing a new way for travelers to snag the best seats in the house.

Six online travel agencies received warning letters from Indonesia’s ministry of communication and information asking the companies to immediately register as ‘Private Scope Electronic System Operators (PSE),’ classifying them as internet businesses.

A new Frontier Airlines fare product enables flyers to guarantee an empty middle seat next to their own window or aisle seat in the first two rows of the aircraft.

Frontier Airlines is adding a new seating option at the front of the aircraft. Its big selling point: an empty middle seat.

One hotel in Singapore is offering a refund equivalent to one night's stay if it rains during your time there and, as a result, you cannot take part in a planned activity. It's not the first time that hotels have offered rain refunds but in the midst of a climate crisis, it begs the question whether we'll see an increasing amount of insurance products paying out for weather events.

JetBlue and Spirit Airlines officially ended their merger plans on Monday, weeks after a federal judge blocked the effort. 

Maine’s Acadia National Park has temporarily closed several trails so peregrine falcons can nest in peace in the area.

A five-star hotel in Singapore is offering a unique solution to guests whose vacations are ruined by heavy rain.

JetBlue said Monday that it had terminated its merger agreement with Spirit Airlines, putting an end to the $3.8 billion acquisition nearly seven weeks after the acquisition was blocked by a federal judge.

JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines announced on Monday that they would walk away from their planned $3.8 billion merger after federal antitrust regulators successfully challenged the deal in court. JetBlue said it would pay Spirit $69 million to exit the deal.

In the spring of 2020, at the height of the pandemic, the always bustling Dam Square in Amsterdam was deserted, silent and surrounded by concrete counterterrorism blocks. The Dutch street artist Frank de Ruwe, who goes by the name of Frankey, decided these daunting studded blocks resembled something more innocent — giant Lego blocks — and that the city needed something to lighten the gloom.

Even as we travel around the globe, it’s easy to forget that our planet is part of a much larger celestial dance. Sure, we mark the orbit of the Earth around the Sun each year, but nothing reminds us that we are part of something much bigger than the experience of watching the Moon slide in front of the Sun during a solar eclipse.