Travel

Amazon is among the companies telling workers in the Seattle area to stay home as the coronavirus outbreak spreads.

Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft Tell Seattle Workers To Stay Home

2:05pm March 05, 2020

by Shannon Bond

U.S. companies are trying to limit disruption from the coronavirus outbreak by curtailing travel and telling some employees to work from home. Several major tech firms are among the latest to act.

A flight information board displays canceled incoming flights from Italy at Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel, last month. Airlines are slashing hundreds of flights amid fear of the spreading coronavirus.

Coronavirus Fears Lead To Canceled Flights And Concerns Within The Travel Industry

5:57pm March 04, 2020

by David Schaper

Companies are canceling employee travel, and airlines are slashing hundreds of flights amid fear of the spreading coronavirus. The slump is hitting the travel industry and related businesses hard.

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Travel restrictions, canceled events and work from home policies are becoming the new normal at companies as coronavirus fears mount.

Health & Safety

Coronavirus Cancellations And Travel Bans: Google Is Latest

8:32pm March 03, 2020

by Shannon Bond

Companies are curbing employee travel and canceling major events as they try to minimize disruption from the growing coronavirus outbreak.

Emergency workers in protective clothing exit the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship where it was being resupplied Monday off Yokohama, Japan.

Coronavirus Casts A Pall Over Cruise Industry At Height Of Booking Season

3:18pm February 12, 2020

by Yuki Noguchi

Tales of life on a ship quarantined in Japan amid a coronavirus outbreak are hurting bookings for the growing cruise line industry. But the industry has shaken off worse crises, an analyst says.

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Two people braving blizzard conditions in Duluth, Minn., on Saturday.

Hundreds Of Flights Cancelled, Thousands More Delayed As Winter Storm Moves East

4:48pm December 01, 2019

by Paolo Zialcita

The post-Thanksgiving travel rush is due to get even more hectic, as heavy snow and ice accumulation is expected to continue battering regions across the United States on Sunday.

Parts of California are blanketed in snow after a powerful Thanksgiving storm, with more snow expected in parts of the state over the weekend.

National

2 Storm Systems Set To Snarl Holiday Travel

3:41pm November 30, 2019

by Merrit Kennedy

A major storm system pummeling the Great Plains region will move east and impact travel into the Northeast by Sunday. And a second system is bearing down on Northern California.

Families and friends enjoy their time on a Gaza City beach. Israel allows in international aid workers, journalists and diplomats, but tourists are prohibited.

World News

Here's What Tourists Might See If They Were Allowed To Visit Gaza

8:37pm August 08, 2019

Gaza has been off-limits to tourists since Hamas took over in 2007. A veteran Palestinian tour guide leads NPR to see the sites, including a palace, a mosque and a bathhouse.

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Economy

PTI One Of Two NC Airports Getting Major FAA Investment

1:46pm June 06, 2019

by Keri Brown

The Piedmont Triad International Airport is getting a major boost from the Federal Aviation Administration. As a result, a new air t

Tourists who have just disembarked from a cruise liner tour Havana, Cuba, on Tuesday. The Trump administration has imposed major new travel restrictions on visits to the island by U.S. citizens.

Trump Administration Clamps Down On Travel To Cuba, Bans Cruise Ships

8:46pm June 04, 2019

by Vanessa Romo

The changes, which bar "people-to-people" tours, are intended to further squeeze the Cuban economy while keeping U.S. dollars "out of the hands" of the communist government.

Lauren Geoghegan cycling through Africa.

World News

D.C. Couple Killed In Tajikistan Attack Were Biking Around The World Together

10:59pm July 31, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan had spent just more than a year on the road. They kept a detailed blog, writing at one point, "By and large, humans are kind ... Generous and wonderful and kind."