When a video of Naomi Campbell cleaning her airplane seat and wearing a mask and gloves was shared online last year, it made the rounds because her behavior seemed exaggerated. (“Clean everything you touch,” Ms. Campbell said in the video.) Major airlines, including Delta Air Lines and American Airlines, say they clean their planes to…
“Nature is built on a stupendous plan in that region,” Mark Twain once wrote of the valley leading into Zermatt. “There is nothing tame, or cheap, or trivial — it is all magnificent.” Much of today’s Zermatt would still be familiar to Twain. The high, stony pyramid of the Matterhorn — “lonely, conspicuous, and superb,”…
In October, a two-line recommendation buried on Page 35 of a report commissioned by the United Kingdom’s Committee on Climate Change garnered disproportionate attention in the world of frequent fliers. “Introduce a ban on air miles and frequent flier loyalty schemes that incentivize excessive flying,” it suggested. Message boards and blogs that serve points-obsessed, platinum-status-seeking…
With frozen dirt road crunching under the car tires, my longtime fishing buddy (and paleontologist) Mike and I pull out of the driveway of my family cottage in New Hampshire for the hour drive north east toward the White Mountains , where an invite we’ve long coveted has us giddy. It’s to sit on a…
Think of the Caribbean, and a certain image comes to mind: an unblemished white-sand beach, lapped by clear turquoise waters. And there’s little doubt that many of the millions of visitors who come to the region annually do so to simply sit at the beach with sunscreen, a must-read novel and perhaps a rum-based drink…
The Times’s 52 places to go in 2020 spans the globe, from Washington, D.C., to Mount Kenya to Sabah, Malaysia. Maybe you’re already buying your plane tickets, or maybe you can’t get away anytime soon — but either way, we recommend the books below, which will help you explore on the ground or from your…
A few months ago when my new passport arrived, I tore open the envelope with the relief of someone who had already booked a two-week international trip. The first stamp in my new book would be Morocco, which is what I was thinking about as I flipped through the pristine blank pages. I had thumbed…
First came the flood, then came the disease. Over the past three months, the tourism industry of Venice, has had its share of plagues. Flooding in November, prompted by exceptionally high tides, led to mass cancellations. Now as Italy experiences the biggest coronavirus outbreak outside Asia, a similar and unwelcome drop-off is occurring. According to…
The adventure capital of New Zealand, Queenstown, the South Island’s magnetic mountain resort, thrives on adrenaline. Site of the first commercial bungee-jumping operation — established in 1988 over the Kawarau River — Queenstown is the place to test your courage by jumping off, flying over or skimming above things. During the winter (June through September),…
As cases of the coronavirus continue to multiply in China, and concerns about the disease have led travelers to cancel upcoming trips to other Asian countries, tourism officials in Alaska see an opportunity. Officials with Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport and Visit Anchorage, the tourism marketing organization for Alaska’s largest city, have begun…