Vacation Rentals: How to Make Your Stay Sustainable
Travelers choosing to stay in a vacation home instead of a hotel may have to spend more time searching for sustainable lodgings, but ultimately they will have more control over their environmental impact. The following are steps short-term renters can take to shrink their carbon footprint. Search for sustainable rentals The nonprofit Sustonica validates short-term […]
Boeing Jokes Are a Favorite on TikTok. Guess Who’s Not Laughing.
“I love how, collectively, the internet — especially TikTok — will just make insane situations funny somehow,” Ms. Iascofano said. “Like, it kind of does comfort me that we’re all almost dealing with, like, this traumatic news.” Zarinah Williams, the writer of a weekly newsletter about pop culture, politics, beauty and travel, has also shared […]
United Airlines Planes Have Seen 8 Incidents in 2 Weeks. What’s Going On?
An engine fire sparked by plastic packaging wrap, a tire lost shortly after takeoff and a plane veering off the runway: These are among the eight incidents that have occurred over the past two weeks on flights operated by United Airlines. While no injuries — or worse — have been reported, the mishaps have generated […]
Jail Cells? Morgues? Your Cruise Ship Has Some Surprises for You.
Cruise ships have hidden features that many passengers, particularly first-timers, don’t know about. Some ships are as big as small cities, and while it’s relatively easy to familiarize yourself with a seemingly endless number of amenities — water parks, tattoo parlors, multiple restaurants — there is also an entire ecosystem, often below passenger decks, that […]
I Was Lonely In a New City. This Tech Trick Helped Me Belong
A uniquely 20-something cocktail of ambition, stupidity and wanderlust led me to take a job in Berlin fresh out of college. My due diligence consisted of watching several of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s movies and calling it a day. I had visited the city before, crashing with lovers and loose acquaintances, but my sense of how […]
California’s Monterey Peninsula on a Budget
My first view of Monterey Bay on California’s Central Coast was thrilling — a raft of 40-something sea otters — and free. The next time I would get close to them, at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, it cost nearly $60. That split between free access to outdoor wonders and investment-grade attractions epitomized my experience in […]
David Calhoun, Boeing C.E.O., to Step Down in Management Reshuffle
Boeing abruptly said on Monday that it was overhauling its leadership amid its most significant safety crisis in years, announcing sweeping changes that included the departure of its chief executive, Dave Calhoun, at the end of the year. The aircraft maker has been under mounting pressure from regulators, airlines and passengers as the company struggled […]
Hunting the Northern Lights in Iceland
From the outside, it may seem like the northern lights dance across Iceland’s skies each night. On Icelandair ads, planes fly across shimmering curtains in the sky. On social media, travelers gaze at the green bands above them. The lights are even on some recycling bins in Reykjavík, the capital: “Keep Iceland Clean.” In the […]
Britain’s ‘Pie King’ Comes to Paris
“They’re movable pieces of art,” says Budapest-born, London-based decorator Gergei Erdei of his new collection of hand-painted folding pinewood screens. Part of his Objects of Desires series, the six designs include trompe l’oeil columns, wing-footed mythological figures and interlinked geometric shapes. Erdei found inspiration for his pieces, which are over seven feet tall, in a […]
What Does Being a B Corp Mean?
Tanya Dohoney has worked on sustainability initiatives for decades. A retired attorney from Texas now living in Paris, she even started the recycling program for her workplace. When it comes to travel, she also values environmentally and socially responsible companies, which led her to choose Intrepid Travel, a certified B Corp company, for a tour […]