Happier Passengers, Shorter Lines: Airport Satisfaction Rises in the UK and US

Plans are underway to make the landmark carousel operational again, with help from theme park designers. But the project, expected to take years and cost millions, won't be easy.

The Imperial Hotel Kyoto transformed a 1936 Gion theatre into a 55-room retreat of spacious suites, a rooftop bar and a hush the neighbourhood rarely offers The post Hotel Review: The Imperial Hotel, Kyoto – A 90-Year-Old Geisha Theatre Turned Luxury Hotel appeared first on Business Traveller.

A thousand years ago, Luoyang was renamed Shendu – the "Divine Capital" – by Empress Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in Chinese history. In 694, envoys from across the known world raised the Tian Shu monument here, marking it as the center of the world. That cosmopolitan spirit never really left.

Enjoy an autumn city walk in Beijing and feel the pulse of the Chinese capital.

"I want to run screaming out of there every time I have to visit my family that lives there. It’s claustrophobic, and I can’t wait to escape as soon as I arrive." View Entire Post ›

Here’s one fan’s guide to visiting some of the genre’s fabled filming locations, from “The Shining” to “Friday the 13th.”

Here’s one fan’s guide to visiting some of the genre’s fabled filming locations, from “The Shining” to “Friday the 13th.”

Hotels are building room packages around highly sought-after exhibitions, drawing in a new cultural crowd. The post De L’Europe Secures Kusama Tickets as Hotels Worldwide Unlock Blockbuster Exhibitions appeared first on Business Traveller.

A rebuilt Bangkok landmark where every room faces the park and a 71-villa retreat in the Western Ghats are the latest Asian additions to Preferred Hotels & Resorts’ Legend Collection The post Dusit Thani Bangkok and The Leela Coorg Forest Sanctuary Join Preferred’s Legend Collection appeared first on Business Traveller.

Rob Lowe and Sheryl Berkoff’s son, Matthew Lowe, just tied the knot with Emily Markus in a star-studded wedding ceremony officiated by Gwyneth Paltrow. The wedding was held in Santa Barbara, California, on October 10 and was attended by A-listers including Katy Perry, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Cameron Diaz and Adam Levine. Paltrow, who served as the officiant, has been a long-time friend of Rob and Berkoff, per People magazine. Rob’s brother Chad Lowe, his wife Kim Painter, and their two...

This place is dushi. That's a good thing! View Entire Post ›

By Alan Behr Wilson Fernandes takes every tight turn, steep plunge and narrow miss of parked cars like the pro that he is, driving me in his Land Rover through the back roads of the island of Madeira. We are in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, 500 miles to 600 miles (800km to 1,000km) southwest of the Portuguese mainland, but the hill-studded landscape, challenging roads and the rotating patches of functional housing, opulent villas and open terrain remind me of Saint Barthelemy, far to our west, in...