DIY India, the Jetsetter Way: Touring the Country through The Oberoi Hotels

With Oberoi’s Exotic Vacations certificate, you can piece together your ultimate 8-night journey through India — but where to even begin? The ten choices for where you can stay represent some of the most luxurious lodging options in the country. And the offerings in each destination are as colorful, vibrant and varied as the land [...]

Romantic Caribbean Sunsets

Spring is here — or so says the calendar. Here in New York, the world still looks, well, a bit gray. If you’re anything like us, you’re craving warmth, color and romance. The Caribbean islands have plenty of all three, with softly swaying palms, miles of sugary sand, impossibly blue water and blazing sunsets. And [...]

Seven Celebrity Vacation Spots: Where the Rich and Famous go to Recharge

We look to celebrities for what to wear, where to party, how to style our hair … And sometimes, the hotels they frequent are splashed all over the front page. But often, intel on where they go on vacation is kept tightly under wraps. We’ve scoured the globe for a sampling of celeb-favorite trips — [...]

Congrats to our NATJA Winners!

We’re really proud of our correspondents! The 2010 The North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) Awards Competition, now in its 19th year, honors the “best of the best” in print and electronic travel journalism: articles, photographs, general circulation and specialty publications, blogs and websites and destination publications. This year, five of our correspondents were honored with awards [...]

Five Hottest Honeymoons for 2011: Where the Stars Go

As fall wedding season kicks into high gear, we did some detective work to find the hottest destinations for next year’s honeymoons. And where better to start our research than Hollywood? Celebrities have always been natural trendsetters — they’ve set the standard on everything from clothing to hairstyles to baby names — so we pinpointed five [...]

12 Trips That Will Change Your Life

Transformative journeys, Dream Trips, Things to Do Before Your Die… Whatever you call them, there are certain once-in-a-lifetime travel experiences that every person should attempt at some point — things you just have to see, from the holiest mountains in Bhutan to cruising through the Galapagos. The thing is, too often they start on the dream [...]

World’s Most Fashionable Hotels

The grand opening of the Giorgio Armani hotel in Dubai, the first for the designer, is just the latest salvo in the fashion world’s battle for the hearts and minds of travelers. It’s a match made in heaven: fashion houses using their uncanny luxury instincts to create hotels that attract the haute crowd. In honor of [...]

12 Dazzling Design Hotels

There are hotels, and then there are design hotels where visionary architects, artists, designers and hoteliers come together to produce a work of art. Thought provoking in design, yet full of function, design hotels reflect an original point of view and aesthetic that’s hard to match. Be it a cool, urban space or a innovative [...]

World’s Hottest Party Destinations: Hedonism Done Right

Sometimes you’re in the mood for total relaxation on vacation, but sometimes you want to go a little wild (one word: Ibiza). With the pending doom of summer’s end, it’s time to put on (or take off) our Saturday’s best and head to the world’s best party destinations. Nightlife isn’t all spring breakers and college [...]

World’s Most Endangered Vacation Spots: See them before they’re gone!

The thing about those truly wondrous places — the Galapagos and the pyramids of the world — are that they came long before us and they’ll outlast us. But as we all know, the impact of humans is taking a devastating toll on some of Earth’s most iconic travel destinations. Many factors threaten their survival, [...]