As companies actively court customers through Facebook and Twitter, and as more travelers spend time glued to their smart phones, it's time to ponder if travelers are overloaded by social media.

Contractors to examine Arch corrosion

A double inflation rise in Air Passenger Duty (APD) will have a “devastating” impact on charities which carry out humanitarian aid, Ajaya Sodha has warned. Sodha, who is due to take over as chairman of the UK Guild of Travel Management Companies (GTMC) next month, is chairman of Key Travel, a leading TMC…

St. Bart's has nothing on Margarita, the continent's one true Caribbean island. Venezuelans call their favorite vacation destination La Perla del Caribe (the Pearl of the Caribbean), and the island, with its white-sand beaches, smart hotels, yummy restaurants, and historic sites, really does live up to the hype.

We wouldn't suggest legislators get nothing for their public service, but it is meant to be a part-time job. So we applaud state Rep.-elect Tom Morrison of Palatine for taking the too-rare step of forgoing a state pension.

The former live-in caretaker for a woman who died last year at 94 pleaded not guilty Thursday to stealing more than $55,000 from her former employer.

The travel expert who launched legions of bucket lists back in 2003 talks about South America's best-kept secret, the Caribbean country that gave her the travel bug and the destination she loves best.

OK, you've decided Valentine's Day is the day to pop the big question. But picking February 14 means you're going to have to do it in spectacular fashion. Here are the sweetest places to begin the rest of your life.

Sesame Street joins Children's Museum effort

Despite the violent attacks by a religious fundamentalist, Oslo is open to visitors and operating almost as normal as usual.

Travel Tripper, LLC, has added powerful new features to its industry leading RezTripTM online booking engine. The enhancements include certified reservation delivery interfaces to two popular property management systems: Agilysys' LMS and Micros-Fidelio's Opera. Travel Tripper also now enables shoppers to forward interesting hotel deals and itinerary information to their social network from within the booking engine.

The Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, one of the most eagerly awaited annual events in Mumbai, runs this year from Saturday through Feb. 12.

A Qantas A380 carrying more than 450 passengers, including the airline's chief executive, took to the skies Saturday in the first flight by one of its superjumbos since a midair engine explosion three weeks ago triggered a global safety review.

A fire has ripped through a two-century-old theater in northern Paris said to be a birthplace of French cabaret-style cancan dancing.

CLEVELAND — On a tradition-filled day, Derek Jeter is back playing shortstop and batting leadoff for the New York Yankees.It doesn't get much more fireworks and hot dogs than that.

University of Phoenix students will get a 3 percent to 5 percent tuition increase that starts July 1, according to its parent company. In a third quarter analyst conference call with investors Thursday, Apollo Group officials said the university’s peers also are raising tuition, given economic conditions and increased competition. New degree enrollment is down 40.5 percent during the third quarter ended May 31, mainly because of changes the company made during the past year to recruit...

The captain of the capsized Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino, has made worldwide headlines as the "man to hate" after seemingly abandoning...