What to Expect on a Chimpanzee Trekking Tour in Uganda, According to a Top Safari Advisor

A “great big beautiful tomorrow” awaits at Walt Disney World and Disneyland in 2025. From coast to coast, mouse fans have a lot to look forward to, including new attractions, reimagined rides, and exciting nighttime entertainment.

Several French departments have been placed on orange alert for strong winds and a number of train lines in north-central France are affected.

Genoa tends to be a quick stop on people’s journey to visit the pretty, and very touristy, villages of the Ligurian Coast, including the ones that form Cinque Terre and Portofino. It’s the same for cruise travelers who often only have eight hours to visit the city before going back to their ship and sail to other destinations in the Mediterranean. While a few days on site would be best to explore the birthplace of Christopher Columbus in depth, luckily for those who aren’t afraid of walking a few miles, the highlights can be seen on foot in just a few hours, with enough time for a pesto tasting, a foccaccia lunch, and a chocolate treat.

When Hawaii's legislative session opens on Jan. 15, one of the first orders of business will be voting on a new fee for incoming tourists. In a Dec. 31, 2024 memorandum, Hawaii Gov.

Quark Expeditions helicopter pilot Jonathan Mutch is working his third season in Antarctica, flying high-paying tourists to some of the planet's remotest places.

Whether you're staying in a five-star canvas tent at the edge of Tanzania's Serengeti National Park or heading on a budget safari in South Africa's Kruger National Park, a safari vacation is dotted with hidden costs.

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.

Strikes are a regular occurrence in Europe, as employees withhold their labour to fight for better pay and conditions.

When a film’s as massive and world-conquering as The Lion King, it’s only a matter of time before someone thinks “Let’s do another one…” In Mufasa: The Lion King, Mufasa, King of the Pride Lands and father of Simba from the original, gets his own origin story. Orphaned, lost, and alone after a flood kills his family and carries him away from his homeland, the young Mufasa is rescued by a friendly lion cub called Taka (who later becomes Scar), the heir to a royal bloodline, who always wanted a brother. Adventure ensues.

Australian officials have issued warnings for travelers to be alert for potential methanol poisoning after seven tourists were hospitalized in Fiji last week after drinking alcohol-based cocktails at a luxury resort bar. The alert comes less than a month after six backpackers in Laos died, and others were hospitalized, from what some officials worldwide suspect was methanol poisoning. An investigation into causes behind the hospitalizations in Fiji is ongoing, according to the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation, which said the cases are an isolated event.

As the travel industry prepares for the busy winter holiday period, American Airlines announced that it would offer more than 118,000 flights that will carry an estimated 12.7 million customers between December 18 and January 6.

On December 10, the U.S. Department of State released new travel advisories to two Central American countries that are frequent cruise stops for American travelers during the winter Caribbean cruise season: Honduras and Costa Rica.