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Summary List Placement  SEE ALSO: These are the top 10 most popular US states for living in a tiny home NOW READ: The best glamping vacations in the US Situated on a 28-acre tiny house resort in the Catskills, this open-concept home comes with windows on three sides for optimal nature viewing. Guests can take a kayak out on the nearby creek or go on a...

TripAdvisor just announced the best beaches in the United States as part of its 2020 Traveler's Choice Awards. The rankings were determined based on the quality and quantity of traveler reviews and ratings each destination received in 2019. From a beach in Oregon with towering rock formations to one in Siesta Key, Florida, with sugar-white sands, the destinations on this year's list span multiple states...

Tourism along the Gulf of Mexico came to a screeching halt in 2010 after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill covered Texas, Lousiana, Alabama, and Florida resort towns' once-pristine beaches with tar. Tourism eventually recovered and exceeded its pre-spill levels, thanks in part to BP's aggressive cleanup program and national advertising scheme. Almost exactly a decade later, the area's hotels and condos face another existential...

Hotels, motels, and resorts will be forever changed by the coronavirus pandemic. Business Insider spoke to top travel CEOs from companies like Hilton, Club Med, and Aman Resorts about how the coronavirus will change the experience of staying in a hotel. Hoteliers predict that travelers will prefer smaller, less dense hotels and outdoor amenities. Breakfast buffets could become a thing of the past, and...

The wealthy have fled big cities for vacation homes in smaller towns to ride out the coronavirus pandemic. They're taking refuge everywhere from coastal New England and western ski resorts in the US to the countryside in England. Local residents are concerned the influx of visitors will stretch their supplies and hospital systems thinner than they already are. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more...

Mr & Mrs Smith is a travel club and online hotel booking service specializing in romantic getaways for couples. The married cofounders, Tamara and James Lohan, came up with the idea for their company after a few underwhelming hotel stays early in their relationship. Initially, the two partnered with select "tastemakers" to determine the best romantic boutique and luxury hotels, releasing a guidebook with...

The oldest continuously operating winery in the United States is a 1.5-hour drive from Manhattan and features a sprawling wine cave.  Named after a 19th-century Utopian community in the Hudson Valley, Brotherhood Winery sold "medicinal" wine during Prohibition and attracted 10,000 cars per day in the early days of wine tourism following World War II. Having grown up in the tri-state area, I was...

The New York Times has released its annual "52 Places to Go" list.  To compile the list, The New York Times travel staff spent four months polling their travel networks and asking the question: "Why this place, this year?"  Commitment to sustainability and celebration of history are two threads running through this year's selections, Times travel editor Amy Virshup noted. Seven US destinations, ranging...

Viceroy's female empowerment-themed Hotel Zena will open in Washington, DC in spring 2020. It is the world's first hotel dedicated solely to celebrating women's accomplishments, according to Jon Bortz, president and CEO of Pebblebrook Hotel Trust. The 191-room hotel will celebrate women's strength and successes with a Ruth Bader Ginsburg mural, "cheeky" design details, and programs for the "culturally curious," according to a release....

"Transformational travel" is the new "experiential travel," according to the business director of a luxury safari company. Chris Roche of Botswana-based Wilderness Safaris, which operates customizable African safaris that cost an average of $8,000, told Business Insider that their journeys change people's lives. "We sell [people] the ability ... to reconnect with nature and, as a result, reconnect with themselves and their partner or kids...