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For you early birds determined to wait out those peak summer prices, Air Berlin has lowered fares for late summer/fall/winter travel to Europe. You'll find some especially good deals to Poland out of Chicago and New York. Sale fares are valid from August 16 through December 13, and again from January 13 through March 2 …

I dont play video games, and probably I never will now that Ive landed an Airbus A380 at airports all over the world in a flight simulator. Because really, what video game could ever compare with manning the joystick in a multi-million dollar sim? I knew that my first flight sim experience would be exciting, which is why …

By Christiaan Hetzner FRANKFURT (Reuters) - How many Mercedes staff does it take to sell a car? The answer, in the luxury carmaker's German showrooms, is more than it takes to shift an Audi - just part of the cost gap Daimler wants to close with its premium rivals. Among the top three, Mercedes depends on its unprofitable …

By Beth Pinsker EAST HAMPTON, New York (Reuters) - Judging by early demand for everything from doggie daycare to Ferrari rentals and fine art, rich Americans are going to make this a strong summer in one of their favorite playgrounds - the beach towns on the eastern end of Long Island collectively known as the Hamptons. …

MILAN (Reuters) - Six people armed with clubs robbed a luxury watch shop in central Milan on Tuesday, throwing petrol bombs in the street as they made off with their loot, Italian police said. Two employees at the shop selling Franck Muller Swiss watches were wounded in the robbery which took place in broad daylight in …

By Simon Evans MIAMI (Reuters) - San Francisco is favored to be named the host city for the 50th Super Bowl when National Football League (NFL) owners vote Tuesday on the site of the 2016 championship game. The Californian city, home to the NFL's 49ers, is up against South Florida (Miami) while Houston will compete with …

By Simon Evans MIAMI, May 20 (Reuters) - San Francisco is favored to be named the host city for the 50th Super Bowl when National Football League (NFL) owners vote Tuesday on the site of the 2016 championship game. The Californian city, home to the NFL's 49ers, is up against South Florida (Miami) while Houston will compete …

NEW YORK (AP) — An exhibition opens Tuesday at a museum in Lower Manhattan about efforts by American Jews to bring refugees to the U.S. from Europe during the Nazi era.

NEWCOMB, N.Y. (AP) — After a big easy sweep across a flat-water pool on the upper Hudson River, Allison Buckley made sure she chose a better channel through the oncoming rapids than the previous canoe that hung up on a submerged rock.

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Mount Rushmore National Memorial may be the most famous landmark in the Black Hills of South Dakota, but it's not the only one.

A Virginia landmark and tourism attraction once owned by Thomas Jefferson is up for sale. The privately owned Natural Bridge, north of Roanoke, is being put on the market, along with Natural Bridge Caverns ...

Connecticut's "Still Revolutionary" tourism marketing campaign is succeeding and deserves continued funding, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Tuesday. The campaign, unveiled last year as part of a ...

A former gubernatorial aide to three governors will take over as tourism secretary on June 1. Gov. Steve Beshear announced Monday that Bob Stewart is his pick to replace Marcheta Sparrow, who is retiring ...

New Hampshire tourism officials are predicting an increase in visitors and spending this Memorial Day weekend, though the outlook is not as optimistic as it was last year. Citing a report by the Institute ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - The number of tourists visiting Egypt rose in the first four months of 2012, the cabinet said on Tuesday, but analysts say the sector is still suffering from the aftermath of the country's 2011 uprising. The revolt that ousted President Hosni Mubarak sparked more than two years of protests, riots and political …

CHICAGO (Reuters) - United Airlines said on Monday it expects to have its entire fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners back in service this week, as the airline's first flight with the new jetliner in four months landed safely in Chicago. "Every new airplane has issues," United CEO Jeff Smisek said after the flight landed ahead …

PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Mauritius's earnings from tourism dropped 12.4 percent from a year earlier to 12.06 billion rupees in the first three months of this year as the weak economic environment in Europe hurt visitors' spending. Statistics Mauritius cut its forecast for visitor arrivals this year to 990,000 from a previous …

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — In a bid to safeguard biodiversity and the Caribbean's tourism-based economy, regional political leaders and corporate executives will gather Friday on billionaire Richard Branson's private island with the aim of protecting 20 percent of the region's coastal resources by 2020.

Real-estate developers are breaking ground on downtown Salt Lake City's first new hotels since a Hyatt Place was built in 2009. The additions are for specialized segments of the hotel industry and won't ...

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal police say a small plane with foreign tourists has crashed while attempting to land at a mountain airstrip in northern Nepal.

State tourism officials say that more people visited Florida in the first three months of 2013 than any other quarter in the state's history. Visit Florida announced Wednesday that preliminary numbers ...

KEENE, N.H. (AP) — A fourth-grade class that substituted a "Magic Segway" for the "Magic School Bus" took the top prize Wednesday in a video contest sponsored by the state Division of Travel and Tourism.

Belize's government said Tuesday it is pursuing a "vigorous" investigation into a road-building company's near destruction of one of the largest Mayan pyramids in Belize. The Ministry of Tourism ...