Sherrie Chelini's idea of a dream destination? Rio de Janeiro. “My heart jumps when I see it,” says the director of planning for Creative Travel Planners in Woodland Hills, Calif. “It's indescribable until you've been down there. And for all the...

This past February a powerful car bomb exploded outside a convention center in Madrid, wounding dozens of people and reminding the citizens of that city that the risk of a terrorist attack is omnipresent...

At a December breakfast meeting in Beijing's Peninsula Palace Hotel with representatives from American and Asian travel and meetings press, Simon Cooper, President and COO of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. LLC, announced several new initiatives for...