Travel

Shakespeare's Globe, the open-air London playhouse that helped win modern audiences over to all-weather outdoor theatregoing, is embracing the great indoors.

Tourists will soon have a new way to see the lights of Las Vegas: By being fired out of an 11-storey slot machine and zinged down a five-block zip line past some of the city's oldest casinos.

Entrepreneur hopes to offer trips for about $99 starting in late 2013

Whether it's a security crisis in the Middle East or a two-hour delay at a Canada-U.S. border crossing, a government website promises to change the way Canadian travellers hear about it.

Victoria-based expedition cruise company Maple Leaf Adventures received the Parks Canada Sustainable Tourism award this week at the Canada Tourism Awards gala in Gatineau, Que.

There was a time, not that long ago, when visitors to Puerto Rico's second-largest city were cautioned not to stray from the central plaza after dark.

Palace intrigue? Check. Royal rapscallions? Some. Kings and queens and gorgeous things? You'll find those too. You thought we were speaking of Britain, perhaps? Well, no, although Britain celebrated the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in June.

These days when I travel to Europe, I usually sleep in hotel rooms or bed-and-breakfasts. But in my early travel days, I routinely found places where I could sleep for free or very cheap.

For many foreigners, Mexico City invokes images of urban chaos, choking air pollution and pervasive street crime.

Quiet corner of the Big Island is an ideal place to meet artists and musicians