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Qantas pilots successfully landed a plane flying from Melbourne to Perth in Australia with just one working engine on Monday, local newspaper The West Australian reported.

A 23-year-old tourist is presumed dead after falling from the MSC Euribia cruise ship in the North Sea, reports say.

Every year, Time Out ranks the best cities in the world. For 2024, it’s ranking the world’s 30 coolest streets—and five U.S. cities made the cut. But these are not expected spots (sorry, Fifth Avenue). Instead these are places with true character and charm, where you can eat, drink, dance, shop and stroll.

The Department of Transportation (DOT) will conduct a privacy review of major airlines in the United States with a focus on how popular carriers handle and store passenger’s personal information.

The world of luxury travel has never been so buoyant. Recent launches by innovative and renowned brands are catering for a new group of ultra-luxury travellers who don’t need to look at the bill and who are demanding an increasingly exceptional way to see the world.

The historic Troy Laundry Building — a Colonial Revival-style brick warehouse sitting at 1025 S.E. Pine Street in Portland, Oregon — has begun a new iteration. Constructed in 1913, the Buckman neighborhood building was an industrial laundry facility until 1983, served as an artist co-op for a few decades, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Drowsiness as a factor in road crash deaths is roughly ten times higher than reported in traditional crash data, according to new estimates. Between 2017 and 2021, nearly 18% of all traffic fatalities involved a drowsy driver, accounting for close to 30,000 lost lives. In 2021 alone, about 6,725 people were killed on U.S. roads by drowsy drivers.

Disney Cruise Line continues its rapid expansion with the reveal of the third Triton-class ship name and theme. The ship will be called the Disney Destiny, be themed after heroes and villains and is scheduled to be delivered in 2025.

Finland has done it again. The 2024 World Happiness Report is out, and for the seventh year in a row, Finland has been named the happiest country in the world.

If you’ve been on a cruise recently, you may have noticed the great lengths to which crew members go to remind passengers to wash their hands. On Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, staff dressed as hot dogs and pizza slices stand by the food hall imploring guests to disinfect before eating. On some ships, crew stationed in the bathroom repeat “washy washy" on loop while others sing catchy jingles and dole out hand sanitizer like candy.

As a boat picked my friend Katie and me up on the beaches of Dangriga, Belize, we had about 25 minutes to bond with the other guests traveling to Thatch Caye resort.

While tourist taxes are not new—Bhutan has been charging visitors since it opened up to tourists in 1974—and many countries and cities around the world already charge visitors a nightly fee.

If witnessing the mesmerizing magic of the northern lights is on your bucket list, Yellowknife, in Canada's Northwest Territories, should be your destination of choice. A new report produced by odds experts, AceOdds, has just revealed the top cities in Canada where people will have the greatest chance of seeing the incredible Northern Lights in 2024.

A luxury space travel company is set to mingle fine dining with suborbital travel.

It’s about to get more expensive to visit Ecuador’s popular Galapagos Islands as the country prepares to double entry fees this summer.

Qatar Airways is developing a new first-class product to introduce aboard its aircraft, according to a new CNBC report.

Boeing has told airlines to check the cockpit seats of its 787 Dreamliner plane, the company said on Friday, after a Latam Airlines plane suddenly plunged on a flight to Auckland, New Zealand, on Monday, injuring passengers.

Monday's Latam Airlines incident might have been caused by a flight attendant accidentally hitting a switch in the cockpit, The Wall Street Journal reported.

American Airlines' AAdvantage program still offers a compelling partner award chart. And you can often find good-value domestic awards, too. One of the strongest aspects of the American AAdvantage program is the value of its miles. However, it can be difficult to earn and redeem American miles, as the airline does not partner with major credit card rewards programs such as Chase Ultimate Rewards, American Express Membership Rewards, Capital One and Citi ThankYou Rewards.

The percentage of people required to have a traditional visa for international travel is decreasing, according to a recently published report by UN Tourism.

Gion, Japan's popular geisha district in Kyoto, will be barring tourists from entering certain alleys, the news agency AFP reported on Friday.