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In keeping up with its tech initiatives, Capital One has teamed up with HotelTonight to give new offers to travelers. HotelTonight is a last-minute booking app that gives travelers discounted rates at thousands of hotels.
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Atlanta -
Delta Air Lines still was forced to cancel nearly 700 flights Tuesday, even as operations began to normalize following a massive computer outage on Monday that stranded thousands of passengers worldwide.
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By AFP
Paris -
France is bracing for its annual Black Saturday, when millions of people return from their July holidays and millions of others take to the roads, rails and skies for their August break.
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Beijing -
Family members of passengers aboard ill-fated Maylasia Airlines Flight 370 demonstrated outside China's Foreign Ministry on Friday, demanding to meet officials who propose suspending the high-tech search for the jet if it is not found by year's end.
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Google has released a major update to Google Maps across all supported devices. The update includes a design refresh that is clearer and easier to see, a new "areas of interest" feature to highlight local attractions and a more balanced colour scheme.
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Putrajaya -
Countries still looking for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with little success may be getting ready to call off the search.
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Tokyo -
Due to the rising cases of train delays, a Japanese railway company plans to intensify the campaign that urges passengers not to use their smartphones when getting on or off trains.
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Havana -
Six U.S. airlines have been authorized to begin commercial service to Havana starting later this year for the first time since the 1960s, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Friday.
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By AFP
Paris -
Overflowing rubbish bins, transport strikes, violent political protests, and floods -- the image of France as Euro 2016 kicks off on Friday is worrying tourist chiefs.
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Oakland -
Security lines for passengers seeking to board airplanes at Bay Area airports have been surprisingly short over the holiday weekend despite an uptick in travelers.
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By AFP
Washington -
The State Department has urged Americans to avoid all travel to North Korea, warning that US citizens making the trip risk long and "unduly harsh" imprisonment if they fall foul of laws in the hermit state.
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Japan and China are currently engaged in a fierce competition for the contract to build Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway.
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Google has rolled out an update to the Google Translate app on mobile devices. It adds a new feature that lets you use Google Translate within other apps on your phone so you don't need to copy-and-paste text from messaging threads into Translator.
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A high-speed railway linking China and Russia is now being planned and representatives from both countries will soon meet for the project’s formal agreement.
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By AFP
Bangkok -
The sexual abuse of children by tourists and travellers is a growing scourge around the globe that has largely managed to outwit attempts to curb it in the last two decades, a major study warned Thursday.
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By AFP
Brussels -
The EU on Wednesday proposed offering visa-free travel in Europe to Ukrainians, delivering on a key pledge to the pro-Western government in Kiev.
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San Francisco -
A group of mostly African American women kicked off a tourist train in the Napa Valley for being too loud have settled a race-discrimination lawsuit against the private railroad.
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Seattle -
Alaska Airlines appears to be victorious in its bidding war with JetBlue to buy Virgin America, the low-cost cross-country airline founded by flamboyant British billionaire Richard Branson.
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By AFP
Washington -
The US government is warning its citizens to avoid visiting southeastern Tunisia near the Libyan border as well as the country's mountainous western areas due to "the threat of terrorism.
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Evocative English names like “Manhattan,” “Venice,” “Central Park” and "Chateau Edinburgh" will soon become things of the past, at least in China.
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Over the past three years, more residents of Hong Kong are fleeing the Chinese autonomous territory to escape the rising social tensions and low job prospects with the United States their preferred destination.
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By AFP
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A luxury safari is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when potential tourists think of Nigeria but that's exactly what Yankari Game Reserve is hoping to change.
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By AFP
Washington -
The United States warned its citizens of the "potential risks" of European travel following a spate of terror attacks, including the latest bombings in Belgium that killed around 35 people.
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Many people probably dream of making thousands of dollars travelling and drinking beer, and now there's an internship that will let them do that.
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Tokyo -
To attract more overseas visitors, tourism authorities in Japan have asked spa operators to open their doors to tattooed foreign tourists wanting to experience the onsen, the Japanese term for hot springs.
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By AFP
Kiev -
Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday approved a key anti-corruption bill that Kiev hopes will pave the way for visa-free travel to EU countries this year.
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By AFP
Washington -
The United States further eased travel and trade restrictions with Cuba Tuesday, just days before a historic visit to the communist-ruled island by President Barack Obama.
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The Grand Celebration, hailed as the finest ship to ever set sail from the Port of Palm Beach, recently celebrated its first anniversary in Freeport Harbour, Bahamas at an event attended by company executives and employees and local political leaders.
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Havana -
Commercial airline flights between the United States and Cuba could begin later this year if a new agreement between the former Cold War enemies is signed this week, U.S. officials said Friday.
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New York City -
According to a report released Wednesday, Airbnb may have removed over 1,000 listings from its site in order to rig a survey.
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An adventure vessel plows through the rough waters of the South Atlantic
Crowne Plaza Paris République (screenshot from YouTube video)
A schooner in the Old Port, Marseille, France
Vancouver's downtown area showing the SeaBus ferry service departing for North Vancouver, across the Burrard Inlet.
The craters of the Moon, the moon is slightly yellow from the light of the sun.
Riding the red double-decker buses (on the top deck!) is a good way to see central London.
Beaches of Fuengirola, Spain
Torremolinos on the Costa del Sol, Spain
Saltaire. A Unesco World Heritage site. Built in the nineteenth century by Lockwood and Mawson for Titus Salt.
Old man near one of the Sarajevo symbols - The man that has probably never traveled abroad, but has lived in at least 4 countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, II WW occupation, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes). He might able to visit another country now. Nikola Lazinica
Traveling to the US, means you need an ESTA ESTA USA
A coach fire on the M25 stopped traffic, causing some drivers to start a football game on the road @Octavia_Chelsea
Chicago: Millennium Park. City of Chicago
Torremolinos on the Costa del Sol, Spain
Saltaire. A Unesco World Heritage site. Built in the nineteenth century by Lockwood and Mawson for Titus Salt.
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