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Volkswagen’s highly anticipated ad for Super Bowl 2013 is already making waves online days before the big event, but not for the reasons the German carmaker may have hoped for.

Two landmark rulings this week have opened the floodgates for any traveler seeking compensation for flight delays.

Several LA Times subscribers had their homes burglarized over a period of three years after a contract employee acquired its lists of vacation delivery holds.

Several "maternity hotels" have popped up in Los Angeles offering services for foreign women who want their children to become American citizens.

Anyone on a budget may want to avoid these 10 ski resorts, which are the most expensive in the United States.

Unwto issued its latest World Tourism Barometer on Monday, outlining which regions saw the greatest growth in 2012, and what to expect in 2013.

Widower Janos Soltesz is suing three airlines for $6 million after his obese wife, Vilma, died last year after being rejected for being "too fat to fly."

The 40-day spring travel rush is estimated to break China's travel records. Millions of early travelers flooded train stations this past weekend.

The mayor of Timbuktu, Mali, says rebels set the Ahmed Baba Institute on fire over the weekend, burning thousands of ancient manuscripts containing the history of North Africa.

Rio de Janeiro is known for its sidewalk mosaics, but last week the city took things one step further by embedding QR codes into the stone.

Super Bowl festivities are about a lot more than football. When the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers kick off on Feb. 3 Americans will be drinking, laughing and, perhaps most importantly, eating.

The future of travel looks like this: Driverless cars, space tourists, electronic passports, remote-control luggage and virtual assistants.

Jesus has one, Stalin has one and Napoleon’s will open soon. Now Mahatma Gandhi, too, will have his own dedicated theme park: "Gandhi for Tomorrow."

The leaders of the Hilton and Marriott hotel chains used the 2013 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to promote “smart visas.”

Though many tourists returned to Egypt in 2012, their numbers are still well below what the nation attracted before the Arab Spring.

The list of the world's most visited cities, as measured by international arrivals, includes several surprises.

Did the British Royal Navy actually "rescue" the Norwegian-owned cruise ship MS Fram from ice off of Antarctica?

Just like Lenin, Mao and Ho Chi Minh before him, the late Kim Jong-il has joined the exclusive club of pickled dictators with his new mausoleum.

India’s Supreme Court on Monday finally banned tourists from traveling along a road in the Andaman Islands that was used for so-called “human safaris.”

Portions of Europe brought to a standstill over the past five days crawled back into action Tuesday, but lingering snow storms continued to hamper travel.

A series of vehicle pileups in Ohio killed a twelve-year-old girl and injured dozens of people Monday.

Super Bowl 2013 will be New Orleans' first since Hurricane Katrina, and it’s a landmark date the Crescent City is especially proud of.

The cruise industry shows no signs of slowing down in 2013 as seven new ships take to the sea offering the latest and greatest the industry has to offer.

The answer to this question has eluded even the most seasoned of travelers for years: When is the best time to book a flight and get the lowest airfare?

Time has not been kind to these once-famous vacation destinations.

Authorities on Thursday night were at Miami International Airport investigating a collision between two commercial jets near the gates.

The body scanners that have produced near-naked images of travelers since 2010 will be gone from all U.S. airports by June, according to the TSA.

Bigelow Aerospace's new Expandable Activity Module could be used in the future as a space hotel for well-heeled adventurers.

American Airlines has revamped its logo and look, but does it change anything for the beleaguered carrier?