8 ways to save on a summer vacation

For families planning (or not planning) summer vacations this year, it’s still the economy, stupid. According to a TripAdvisor family travel survey released in March, more than two-thirds of respondents anticipated spending the same or less on family trips than they did last year. Almost a third—30 percent of respondents—said they’d spend between $1,000 and [...]

Derby Museum lets fans soak in Run for Roses

Within the shadows of venerable Churchill Downs, the world’s most famous horse race never ends. Nor does the pageantry of the Kentucky Derby. The Kentucky Derby Museum, situated just off Gate 1 at Churchill, offers a treasure trove of Derby memories for horse racing aficionados and people making their maiden trip to a track. The [...]

National park fees to be waived April 17-25

Entrance fees will be waived at all 392 national parks April 17-25 for National Park Week. Many parks have organized events, talks, volunteer clean-ups and other projects to encourage the public to visit that week. Details, including a “Find a Park” search option, are online at http://www.nps.gov/npweek/. Events include an invitation to help plant a [...]

Las Vegas picked for 2011 global travel summit

Las Vegas has been picked as next year’s site for an international tourism summit expected to attract government and industry leaders from around the world. The London-based World Travel & Tourism Council announced Tuesday that the American destination will host the 2011 Global Travel & Tourism Summit. The announcement comes the same day the primary [...]

When renting vacation homes, ask lots of questions

With three adult children, Teri Hurley made sure to book a house with three bedrooms for her family’s Thanksgiving vacation in New York’s Catskill Mountains. She was stunned — and angry — when she discovered that the third bedroom of the rental property was down a narrow, steep set of stairs under a kitchen trapdoor, [...]

Irish at home, worldwide cheer St. Patrick’s Day

Much of the world is turning green Wednesday for St. Patrick’s Day, the annual celebration of all hues of Irishness. Half a million people were forecast to line the 3-kilometer (2-mile) route of the flagship Dublin parade, which is exploring the theme “The Extraordinary World.” It is a nod to Ireland’s increasing multiculturalism — as [...]

London Jewish Museum reopens after major facelift

They are icons of Britain: a Victorian-era statesman, a World War I soldier-poet, fish and chips. They’re also Jewish — evidence of the 1,000-year history of Jews in Britain, whose story is told in a museum reopening this week after a 10 million pound ($15 million) expansion. “Fish and chips, which everyone thinks of as [...]