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Hilton and American Express have announced that they are donating 20,000 free hotel nights to residents displaced by the Los Angeles wildfires in partnership with local non-profit organization 211 LA. Ranked among the most destructive fires in California's history, the Eaton and Palisades fires have destroyed entire communities and forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate.

Jan 16, 2025 • 6 min read

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Two cruise lines are offering flexible cancellation fees to travelers affected by the Los Angeles wildfires, which continue to burn a week after they broke out.

Once a thriving community, Humberstone in northern Chile is now a ghost town.

Jan 11, 2025 • 9 min read

While tens of thousands of Southern California residents grapple with this week's unprecedented wildfires, the American Airlines AAdvantage program is encouraging frequent flyers to help by offering bonus AAdvantage miles on donations to the American Red Cross for a limited time.

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Skiers at Utah's Park City Mountain Resort say their vacations were spent waiting in painfully long lines and navigating overcrowded trails after hundreds of ski patrollers and mountain safety personnel walked off the job.

The image of Tokyo has always been one of ultra-modernity—it’s a dense, bustling city at the intersection of fashion, culture, and technology. Yet another life, a quieter one, brews in the city’s parks and green spaces.

Shortly after moving into their home in St. Petersburg, Fla., Meghan Martin and her husband noticed a drawback to their new neighborhood. The quiet streets of Shore Acres, a leafy community bisected by canals, occasionally flooded. On some days it was easiest for Dr. Martin, a pediatric E.R. doctor, to reach the hospital by paddle board — a feat she once demonstrated in a widely viewed TikTok.

At Ol Pejeta, a private conservancy in Kenya where lions and cheetah roam, the Ugandan Ankole cows look a little out of place. It would be easy to think they had wandered away from a nearby village, destined to become unlucky prey for the big game animals. But actually, the cows are supposed to be here: They create biodiversity hot spots for other herbivores by stripping the grass, and they function within a beef enterprise that generates a supplementary source of revenue for Ol Pejeta—money that ultimately goes back into conservation of the land and wildlife.

Before I could even place it on a map, I had heard glowing reports of life in Tbilisi.

If you have an AvGeek, an outer space enthusiast or an avid reader in your life and you can't decide what to give them as a holiday gift, consider buying this new book by photographer Ted Huetter. In "Waiting for Spaceships: Scenes from a Desert Community in Love with the Space Shuttle," Huetter documents the thousands of people who would gather to welcome the space shuttles on their return to Earth.

Dec 16, 2024 • 11 min read

Dec 16, 2024 • 11 min read

Urban Africa is a love letter to the bustling African metropolises south of the great desert—Dakar, Kigali, Lagos, Addis Ababa, and Johannesburg, to name a few—that are dynamic, diverse, and more traveler-ready than ever. Find more inspiration here.

Urban Africa is a love letter to the bustling African metropolises south of the great desert—Dakar, Kigali, Lagos, Addis Ababa, and Johannesburg, to name a few—that are dynamic, diverse, and more traveler-ready than ever. Find more inspiration here.

There's a unique credit card that you might not have heard of that could be an interesting way to leverage the equity in your home to reduce your interest rates and earn rewards. The Aven Visa Credit Card is an innovative financial solution that rewards you with a lower cost of capital for having built equity in your home.

Dec 4, 2024 • 4 min read

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