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Have you always dreamed of engaging in a virtual F-16 battle? Do you wish to play commercial airline captain for a day while attempting a landing at the world's busiest airport? You don't have to wait too long or travel too far to fulfill your AvGeek fantasies.

Friday's IT outage caused widespread disruptions after Microsoft reported problems with its online services, linked to an issue at cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.

In 2019, I moved from the US to Ireland and didn't look back.

About a year before starting a family, my husband and I applied for permanent New Zealand residency because we wanted to raise our future child in the United States and New Zealand.

When settling on a place to live, cost of living is certainly a factor. But so is the recreation opportunities.

The years following the pandemic have been a boom period for travel to Buenos Aires, Argentina’s famed capital city.

The U.S. State Department has just issued a fresh travel advisory for those eyeing a trip to the popular archipelagic nations of The Maldives. The advisory level was today elevated from “Level 1 - Exercise Normal Precautions” to “Level 2 - Exercise Increased Caution”. 

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), in collaboration with VFS Global, revealed that the Latin American (LATAM) Travel & Tourism sector could add nearly US$260BN to the region’s economy and create nearly eight million new jobs over the next 10 years.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ivette Cuevas, a café owner living in Costa Rica, and her 16-year-old son, Vincent Alcampo. It has been edited for length and clarity.

It appears Delta Air Lines is not, in fact, immune from a problem that's plagued most of the U.S. air travel industry over the past year: high costs and stiff competition.

U.S. travelers have a new option when it comes to the rapidly growing extended-stay hotel market.

The first time we took our twin sons to the US from Australia, they were surprised by how different things were between the two countries.

The United States has reaffirmed its warning against travel to Lebanon due to the escalating conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, as concerns intensify about the conflict escalating into a full-scale war.

As soon as I arrived in Tokyo to a near-silent Narita Airport, I knew I was in for a bit of culture shock.

American Airlines will offer three additional flights on July 2, 2024, from Jamaica to the United States as Hurricane Beryl pushes its way further into the Caribbean.With the new flights added, the carrier will operate 14 flights from Jamaica to the United States in response to the hurricane, according to a report from Jamaica Observer.The hurricane already made landfall on Grenada’s Carriacou Island as a Category 4 storm on Monday. At least three deaths have been attributed to the hurricane, which hit Grenada with 150-mile-per-hour winds, according to news reports.The storm has since restrengthened and on Monday night it was labeled the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record.

Scottsdale, Arizona, is a luxury travel destination, which means it has a lot of competition when it comes to high-end accommodations.

If we are what we eat, then what does our food say about us, our lives, and our world? In a new docuseries called Omnivore, René Redzepi of Copenhagen's Noma unpacks that question as he travels to learn more about the foods that nourish and define us. “Ingredients do more than feed: they fuel economies, power politics, and unlock hidden truths about who we are and where we are going,” narrates Redzepi at the start of the first episode. That episode is dedicated to chili, and it transports us, in the cinematic richness that executive producer Matt Goulding, of Parts Unknown, is known for—from a tiny village in Serbia where every home is sheathed in curtains of bright red string pepper to the Tabasco factory in Louisiana and the night markets of Bangkok—all the while marveling at the heft of an everyday ingredient that has the power to suspend us between pleasure and pain.

If Fiji is on your bucket list, there may soon be a new way to get there.

It's not very often that you're offered a job in an exciting new country — at least in my case.

In celebration of the Fourth of July and Canada Day, U.K.-based cruise operator Riviera River Cruises has announced a summer sweepstakes for travel advisors in the U.S. and Canada. 

Southwest Airlines is the latest airline to jump into its Swiftie era.