Silver Dollar City, the 1880s-style theme park in Branson, will celebrate “An Old Time Christmas” Nov. 7-Dec. 30, turning the park into an evening wonderland.

The displays include the Christmas on Main Street light and sound show, 1,000 decorated Christmas trees, a…

Grand Circle Corporation says it is offering 2010 trips with the guarantee that if a solo traveler finds a comparable trip at a lower price, the company will match it and take an additional $500 off the cost.

Grand Circle owns…

TripAdvisor is asking its 25 million monthly visitors to help in its campaign to protect World Heritage Sites as “the world’s most important places.”

TripAdvisor has pledged $1.5 million to suppport the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, and is asking its visitors…

The Toilet Seat Museum in Alamo Heights, Texas, leads the list of America’s Wackiest Attractions, according to TripAdvisor travelers and editors.

More than 700 decorated toilet seat lids adorn the over-sized garage that is the museum.

Carhenge, jalopies painted gray to look like Stonehenge…

Finally, St. Louis has made a national list for a good thing. A survey released by Travel + Leisure ranks St. Louis third among the nation’s affordable cities.

For its annual “favorite cities” online survey, the magazine’s respondents rated 30 popular…

The sluggish economy has a few benefits for travelers, including a decline in the average price of a hotel room.

The Hotel Price Intex, a report put together by hotels.com, looked at approximately 78,000 properties in more than 13,000 locations, with…

Gazing at Gaudi. Photo by Jeannie Evans

For a story in this week’s Let’s Eat section, I wrote about a hands-on cooking class my daughter and I took this summer in Barcelona, Spain. While the class was a highlight of our…

Unfortunately, petty theft is a fact of life in many top tourism destinations. I found this out the hard way in Barcelona when someone grabbed a suitcase sitting at my feet.

I wasn’t surprised, then, to see this press release from…

Sunday’s Explore section celebrates the return of New Orleans, four years after Hurricane Katrina. To highlight what was at stake, we offer a column first published on Sept. 4, 2005, days after the levees gave way.

Re-reading these mournful words makes the…