Not all Hawaiian beaches are tourist packed: Kauai has some hidden gems.
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To many cruise travelers , “cruising” means “Caribbean” and a growing number have sailed to and around the warm blue waters there many times.

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May 18, 2012–The Silver Legacy Resort Casino in Reno, half owned by MGM Resorts International, voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on Thursday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Nevada.

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World Hum contributors Lisa Napoli and Eric Weiner spoke in front of a live audience recently in Santa Monica. Napoli, of course, is the author of “Radio Shangri-La,” about her experience in Bhutan. Weiner wrote “The Geography of Bliss” and “Man Seeks God.” Their wide-ranging discussion touched on Bhutan, happiness, authenticity and spirituality, among other things. This 30-minute video has some highlights.

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Syria has complained to the United Nations that its tourism industry has been severely damaged by a 14 month conflict between government forces and rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, which has raised fears of civil war.

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Ranked in the top 10 of all New Orleans hotels by TripAdvisor members — newly discounted with perks.

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The author of travel novel-turned-movie “Up in the Air” has a confession: He likes to text while hiking, and he also likes to bring his iPad to the beach. He’s torn down the barriers between technology and wilderness, and—as he writes for Outside—he thinks that more of us should do the same. Here’s Kirn on his moment of revelation:

After three months of writing cooped up indoors, with only a square patch of sky framed by my window, I drifted outside one day into a field frequented by herds of pronghorn antelope and set up an improvised writing desk on an abandoned, weathered wooden spool that had once held telephone wire. I opened my laptop, powered by a battery, set my cell phone beside it so I could handle work calls, and rigged up a little iPod stereo with speakers that looked like Lucite tennis balls. Above me, in the immense blue August sky, gray cumulus clouds fattened and roiled and towered, blocking the sun, and between them neat white contrails unfurled, tracing the curvature of the vast planet as jets bore their passengers between great cities. The sight was evocative and monumental, and it would have been lost to me, locked up as I was in my office. The novel took on an extra dimension then—broad, expansive, melancholy. Unless I’d brought my computer onto the prairie, I never would have caught the scene.

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Gaylord Entertainment s plan for a 500-room Western-themed hotel and conference center in Aurora is one of six projects being considered for state tax incentives.

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When Linda Watanabe McFerrin fell ill, all the travel meds in the world couldn’t keep the undead away

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The global Travel & Tourism industry is double the size of automotive manufacturing and roughly one-third larger than chemicals manufacturing.

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