Tourists are packing European hotspots, boosted by Americans
VENICE, Italy — Tourists are waiting more than two hours to visit the Acropolis in Athens. Taxi lines at Rome’s main train station are running just as long. And so …
Travel and tourism
United Airlines agrees to give union pilots big pay raises
United Airlines and the union representing its pilots said Saturday they reached agreement on a contract that will raise pilot pay by up to 40% over four years. The union …
Legal dispute facing Texan ‘Sassy Trucker’ in Dubai shows the limits of speech in UAE
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Houston woman known online as the “Sassy Trucker” has been stuck in Dubai for months after an altercation at a car rental agency, the …
Legal dispute facing Texan ‘Sassy Trucker’ in Dubai shows the limits of speech in UAE
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Houston woman known online as the “Sassy Trucker” has been stuck in Dubai for months after an altercation at a car rental agency, the …
Greece plans hourly caps on visitors to ancient Acropolis and will let in up to 20,000 daily
ATHENS, Greece — Visits to the Acropolis of Athens, Greece’s most popular archaeological site, will be capped starting next month at a maximum 20,000 daily and subject to varying hourly …
Crammed with tourists, Alaska’s capital wonders what will happen as its magnificent glacier recedes
JUNEAU, Alaska — Thousands of tourists spill onto a boardwalk in Alaska’s capital city every day from cruise ships towering over downtown. Vendors hawk shoreside trips and rows of buses …
Maui beckons tourists, and their dollars, to stave off economic disaster after wildfires
KAHULUI, Hawaii — Richie Olsten has been in Maui’s helicopter tour business for a half century, so long he’s developed a barometer for the tourism-dependent economy: rental cars parked at …
FAA, lacking enough air traffic controllers, will extend limits on NYC-area flights
The Federal Aviation Administration is letting airlines continue to reduce their flights in the New York City area beyond summer and into this fall FILE – People wait in a …
China expands the number of countries for travel by its big-spending tourists
BEIJING — China has increased the number of countries that its big-spending tourists can visit by more than 70 following the lifting of its last COVID-19 travel restrictions. The decision …
Mexico’s army-run airline to take off in September, but the flight attendants won’t be soldiers
MEXICO CITY — Mexico announced Thursday that its army-run airline will start up in September — but the flight attendants won’t be soldiers. The administration of President Andrés Manuel López …