Best Vacation Spots for Eco-Adventures

Environmental tourists can drift among icebergs in the Antarctic or stand in the Galapagos, inches from exotic birds.

America's Best Car-Free Destinations

A vehicle-free vacation is becoming increasingly more attractive as analysts predict record-breaking gas prices for 2012.?? Patrick DeHaan, Senior Petroleum Analyst for GasBuddy.com, forecasts that prices will peak in May, reaching as high as $4.95 a gallon in and $4.85 in San Francisco. But these gloomy numbers don?t have to equal staying home or a ...

Justice Ginsburg visits mark Arab Spring uprisings

The Supreme Court's midwinter break is often used by justices to fly off to sunny vacation spots or European capitals where they address an audience or two on someone else's tab. But this year, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is on a different sort of visit to two North African countries where popular uprisings helped topple longtime leaders.

Most Canadians say they don't feel safe travelling to Mexico: Poll

Most Canadians say they won't be spending their tourist dollars in Mexico because of safety concerns, ranking the popular tourist destination last among five other vacation hot spots, according to an exclusive Ipsos Reid poll conducted for Postmedia News and Global News.

No coastal spots in top 10 travel

New York; Las Vegas; Orlando, Fla.; Chicago and Los Angeles topped the list of most popular travel destinations in 2011, according to booking data and online searches reviewed by the travel website Orbitz. But what was surprising about the top 10 list was the absence of coastal vacation spots such as San Diego, Honolulu and Miami.