Can this form of low-cow cost, independent travel really survive a new age of social distancing, test and trace, potentially rising flight prices and constantly changing travel restrictions?
It's been a year like no other. As we began 2020, travelers had more freedom of movement than at any time in history. Air traffic had been rising for decades.
Australia's Minister of Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs has threatened to cancel the visas of any visitors caught breaking rules designed to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the country, after hundreds of people attended a beach party in Sydney's Bronte Beach on Christmas Day.
Canceled routes, jumbo jets retired, and smaller planes in the air. The aviation industry has been devastated by the Covid-19 pandemic. So what will it be like to take a flight this winter and spring?
A monkey that lives on the edge of an extinct volcano, an amphibian that breathes through its skin and an armored slug are among the 503 new species named by London's Natural History Museum this year.
When Covid first began spreading around the world, it seemed there was nowhere worse to be than stuck on board a cruise ship. From the unprecedented scramble for safe harbor to the gigantic ghost ships that began appearing off our shores, here's how the world of cruising was turned on its head.
British tourists fled the Swiss ski resort of Verbier "cladestinely" under cover of darkness rather than submit to a new quarantine imposed on UK visitors, a local official said on Monday.
From "flights to nowhere," to new world records, to the time that Frenchman ejected himself from a fighter jet, there have been some strange and wild moments in aviation in 2020. Here are 12 of them
Japan will ban foreign nationals from entering the country from Monday through the end of January after several cases of the new Covid-19 variant were recorded in the country, the Japanese foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
"The Chateau Diaries," the unlikely YouTube quarantine hit, has made a star of Stephanie Jarvis and her friends and family. Find out how they've lived in a French chateau during the pandemic.
Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, have made the extraordinary find of a frescoed hot food and drinks shop that served up the ancient equivalent of street food to Roman passersby.
Over 50 years after its maiden flight, the Boeing 737 is both the most successful airliner ever made and one whose future is more uncertain than ever due to two fatal accidents involving 737 MAX 8 variants.
He was the first Roman emperor, who took over from Julius Caesar and built an empire that would eventually stretch from the UK to Egypt, boasting on his death bed that "I found Rome built of bricks, and left it marble."
