Travel

To many, the lifestyle of a “digital nomad” is an aspirational one — you can live anywhere in the world, visa permitting, with your laptop as your office. Forget the daily grind of the rush hour commute. As long as there’s decent Wi-Fi, simply pick a coffee shop, park or pool and get to work.

The Careem ride-hailing app on a phone outside the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai, United Arab Emirate. Christopher Pike | Bloomberg | Getty Images Uber-backed ride hailing service Careem announced on Tuesday an end to its operations in Qatar. The surprise announcement, which went into effect immediately on Feb. 28, comes just months after

Some people love travel planning. But I am not one of those people. So the idea that artificial intelligence chatbots, such as ChatGPT and Bing, can research travel destinations and create itineraries is intriguing. But I’m skeptical too. Do recommendations just scratch the surface — for example, suggesting that I see the Eiffel Tower in

Most people have a travel bucket list, perhaps with 10 to 15 countries. For this couple, it’s all 195 — and they’re more than halfway there. Hudson and Emily Crider have visited 112 countries, but their journey together began long before that. Both are from the “same small town” of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They met in

Shakeemah Smith has visited more countries — by herself — than most people have visited in their lifetimes. She’s visited 63 countries alone, she said, and now coaches others on how to go solo. Smith — who goes by the name of Keem — said she started traveling alone after a disagreement with a friend

Credit card providers are benefitting from post-pandemic travel and increasing card usage in general, with balances way up in recent months. Valentinrussanov | E+ | Getty Images Financial stocks were so out of favor for most of 2022 that perhaps their tickers should have been appended with a Nathaniel Hawthorne-esque “U” — for “unloved.” Yet

People gather on a beach in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Saturday, March 5, 2021. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images Spring break travel demand is picking up, driving up airfare and hotel rates. Travel app Hopper said in a report last week that domestic airfare is averaging $264 a round trip for March

A sign for hire is posted on the window of a Chipotle restaurant in New York, April 29, 2022. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Job cuts are rising at some of the biggest U.S. companies, but others are still scrambling to hire workers, the result of wild swings in consumer priorities since the Covid pandemic began

In this article UAL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A United Airlines plane departs the Newark International Airport, in Newark, New Jersey, on January 11 2023. Kena Betancur | Afp | Getty Images United Airlines said Monday that new technology will open up more seats on its flights so children can sit with an

In this article IQ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Human players appear as avatars in iQiyi’s immersive Luoyang VR experience, which opened to the public in Shanghai in February 2023. iQiyi BEIJING — Chinese video streaming platform iQiyi announced Monday the opening of its immersive virtual reality experience in Shanghai. The project combines immersive

In this article SEMR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Hopping between tapas bars in Madrid, gorging on art and culture in Barcelona or simply soaking up the sun in the Canary Islands. For most people, those beat awkward conversations by the water cooler in a lonely suburban office park. Remote workers looking for a

National Geographic announced the winning photographs from its first “Pictures of the Year” photo competition. The contest, which opened to U.S. residents in early December, invited readers to submit a digital photograph in one of four categories: nature, people, places and animals. The contest required that photographs be largely unaltered. According to the rules, “only

An American Airlines Airbus A319 airplane takes off past the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, January 11, 2023 Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Federal Aviation Administration acting Administrator Billy Nolen told a Senate panel Wednesday that new procedures will avoid a repeat of events that

When I travel, I like to try to experience a city in a local way. So when I stayed in Downtown Vegas — more traditional and less flashy than “The Strip” — I went to yoga classes and coffee shops in residential areas. And when I went to Kerala, India, I chose a homestay in

In this article BA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Boeing 737 MAX 10 airliner pauses while taxiing on the flight line before its first flight at Renton Municipal Airport on June 18, 2021 in Renton, Washington. Stephen Brashear | Getty Images Boeing‘s aircraft orders and deliveries slipped in January from a month earlier.

In this article 9961-HK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In a survey last year, Chinese travelers said that they were most interested in visiting Europe, Australia, Canada, Japan and South Korea. But that’s not where they’re going — at least not yet. Flight restrictions, visa issues and entrance rules aimed only at them are