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Good news for budget-minded travelers: There's no proof that flying economy-class increases your chances of dangerous blood clots, according...

China will prohibit its carriers from paying EU tax aimed at cutting planes' emissions of climate-changing gases.

Air France and other airlines rescheduled at least 100 flights in advance of Monday's strike.

The city of Venice, concerned about cruise passenger overload and environmental impacts, wants to keep the big ships farther from the historic center.

Club Med, once an all-inclusive chain for swinging singles, now appeals to families and couples as well as solo vacationers with dozens of resorts worldwide.

A third U.S.-based cruise ship with an outbreak of stomach illness has sailed again after being decontaminated in South Florida.

Indonesia has another bizarre way to keep commuters off the roofs of trains: swat them with brooms drenched in putrid goop.

A spokesman for a Russian mountaineering team seeking to be the first to climb K2 in winter says it has abandoned the attempt after one of its members died on the mountain.

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The chance of dying in a cruise-ship accident is small, but there are dangers beyond shipwrecks like that of the Costa Concordia.

Air France says it expects to maintain more than 85 percent of its long-haul flights and 80 percent of European flights when pilots, cabin crew and other personnel begin a four-day walkout Monday to protest a government labor reform.

The small town of Tlaxcala, just two hours from Mexico City, has an almost kaleidoscopic palette compared to the hazy-brown air of polluted...

Emirates is offering sweet deals for Seattle travelers looking for an inexpensive way to reach destinations such as Jordan or India.

Weekends are family time in Mexico, and no city celebrates Saturday and Sundays with more enthusiasm than the Yucatán's cultural capital of Merida.

Central Oregon's sprawling Mount Bachelor Ski Resort has the highest ski mountain in Oregon and Washington, surrounded by a huge national forest, just uphill from the burgeoning craft-brewing scene of Bend, Ore.

"Park Here" is an indoors park for winter-weary New Yorkers

An official said the kidnappers released the two U.S. tourists and their guide after being told "this was bad for Egypt's image and tourism."

A roundup of coming events all over Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia.

Eight months after a tornado laid waste to much of this city, Joplin is wrestling with an emotional question: Should the community market...

Laurie Spear's travel agent tells her she's booked on American Airlines. But it turns out she's on British Airways and that leads to all kinds of problems. Who's responsible, and how does she fix it?

Bedouin tribesmen abducted two female American tourists and their Egyptian guide at gunpoint Friday but released them several hours later after negotiations with tribal leaders in the Sinai Peninsula, the region's security chief said.

TV food personality Andrew Zimmern scouted out Seattle for his latest episode of "Bizarre Foods America," which will air on the Travel Channel Monday night. What sorts of disgusting degustations did he dig up?

In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th-century Bohemian crystal glassware and thousands of art objects, including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese master.

Get out of town to the "first annual" Edison Bird Festival in the tiny town of Edison, Skagit County, on Feb. 11-12, 2012.

Travelers can find their inner calm in the Yoga Room at San Francisco International Airport just past the security checkpoint in Terminal 2.