Mobile tips

For four decades, Courtyard by Marriott has been a trusted haven for business travelers seeking comfort, convenience and a touch of local flavor. Now, on the heels of its 40th anniversary, Courtyard isn't just reminiscing – it’s redefining the work-travel experience with exciting developments, like hotel openings, elevated amenities, additional technology touch-points and a lazy river or two.

The Eternal City is well known for its historic sites as well as its eternal traffic jams, as many of Rome’s citizens and tourists get around by individual motorized vehicles. But a new initiative to boost cycling, walking, and public transport and how they all interconnect, hopes to change that.

One of the quirkier aspects of flying out of Dulles International Airport (IAD) near Washington, D.C., is getting set for a major face-lift.

For T Magazine’s annual Salone del Mobile party, which this year also celebrated the magazine’s 20th anniversary, the designer and entrepreneur Ramdane Touhami oversaw a festive installation in the garden of Milan’s Villa Necchi Campiglio, a Rationalist-style house dating to 1935. In addition to running his creative agency, Art Recherche Industrie, the Paris-based Touhami founded the Société Helvétique d’Impression Typographique, a printing press and typography studio. He’s long been interested in the visual appeal of the alphabet, so when he took over the villa’s garden, he planned a theme that revolved around a single letter.

On Monday evening, T Magazine held its annual party to help kick off the Salone del Mobile design fair in Milan. For the sixth year, guests flocked to Villa Necchi Campiglio, the 1935 Rationalist-style home designed by the Italian architect Piero Portaluppi. But this year, the cause for celebration was twofold: The event also marked the magazine’s 20th anniversary, and to honor the occasion, T’s editor in chief, Hanya Yanagihara, commissioned the Parisian multidisciplinary artist Ramdane Touhami to oversee the party’s design.

Planning an accessible road trip is getting a little easier for people with disabilities. There are more resources created by and for the disability community, and the tourism industry is starting to recognize the value of accessible travel. As a disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent person, I take road trips every year and have learned some tips and tricks along the way.

Dulles International Airport (IAD) outside Washington, D.C., is set to test first-in-the-nation technology for Global Entry, allowing certain travelers to pass through customs without ever interacting with — or even passing by — a human officer.

United Airlines began rolling out a new tool Thursday aimed at making travel easier for passengers who rely on wheelchairs for mobility.

Thinking of visiting China, India, or Venezuela this year with a US passport? Not so fast — or at least not before securing a visa. Some of the best wonders of the world require US citizens to obtain a visa before take-off, an inconvenience in planning that long-awaited international getaway.

United Airlines now allows frequent flyers to pool miles with four other people in a joint account, the airline said in a press release on Thursday.

One of TPG's commandments for travel credit cards is to pay your balance in full every month — but sometimes that isn't possible. You could have an unexpectedly large expense or face an involuntary layoff from work. In these instances, you may want (or need) extra time to pay off your bills.

Airbnb is banning the use of indoor security cameras in properties listed for rent on its site. But even when the ban takes effect from the end of April, how can you be sure that a property owner isn’t spying on you?

If you've been wishing you had a fairy godmother so you could ask her for a better way to book dining reservations at Disney World and Disneyland, consider your wish granted. Disney just updated its dining reservation system to simplify planning your next trip (no pixie dust required!).

When it comes to the best car rental company, Michael Moore has a clear favorite: Enterprise.

Nearly 50 million vehicles on U.S. roads have unrepaired safety recalls – that’s about one of 5 vehicles. It’s a serious issue, as many recalls involve defective parts that can pose life-threatening risks to drivers and passengers, according to the National Safety Council (NSC), a nonprofit advocacy group.

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Lonely Planet's Destination Editor for Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent, Akanksha Singh, weighs in on which is better for cell phone users on the move in Europe and Asia: physical SIM cards or eSIMs.

This spring, a first-of-its-kind tour is kicking off in Austin, Texas at SXSW Festival, a tour designed to showcase the power of small businesses in hospitality through cinema. Using a mobile pop-up vehicle and projector, hospitality software company eviivo Collective plans to spotlight “10 of the world’s best independent properties,” on outdoor screens through eight global cities: Austin, Belfast, Canterbury, London, Dusseldorf, Amsterdam, Brussels and Belgium via the eviivo Collective 2.0 World Tour.

Québec City has an up-close-and-personal vibe to it, giving it the feel of a big village more than a grand metropolis. The city’s small-scale transport options reflect this mentality.

When I first left the hospital after my spinal injury and began adapting to life with a disability, air travel was one of the most intimidating barriers I went up against. In my former life as a non-disabled person, I had never thought about the challenges of navigating narrow aisles or accessing facilities on board an aircraft. As a paraplegic and manual wheelchair user, that privilege had been revoked.

A real-time Capital One Lounge capacity tracker is now available for select cardholders in the Capital One mobile app. It's also possible to join a virtual waitlist before arriving at the lounge to get in sooner.