Ever wanted to really get to know the people with whom you are trapped, encased in a tin can hurtling through the sky for any number of hours? Me neither, but this app is offering it anyway!

A new program at Tufts University plans to help students who plan on attending the school have that "gap year" experience, including volunteering before starting on their degrees. Starting this upcoming fall, the 4+1 program will provide funding for traveling including airfare and travel visas (the bane of my…

Planning any big trips this year? If like me, you're the kind of person who transports half her worldly possessions with her when she travels in a complex array of suitcases, garment bags, backpacks, cardboard boxes and folded up old newspapers, then you need help. And boy, do we have some good help for you.

Sarai Sierra, a 33-year-old photographer and mother from New York City, was killed by a blunt trauma wound to the head while traveling alone in Turkey last month. Her family hadn't heard from her since the day before she was supposed to fly home from the two-week vacation, her first ever overseas trip. Sierra hadn't…

Travel Hotties, a "Social Backpacker Community," is an online travel community for "students, youths, backpackers and hardcore travellers." It's "like traditional matching, ranking and dating websites except with a unique twist: find people where they are right now!"

Around 1,000 Nigerian women have been stranded at airports in Saudi Arabia for five days running because of a rule that says they must be accompanied by a husband or male relative while taking the Muslim Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca — a trip that's pretty much mandatory for able-bodied Muslims to take at least once in…

The Atlantic's Max Fisher compiled a bunch of observations from first-time U.S. visitors, gleaned from both his own international friends and Quora users, and the results are both amusing and depressing. A few things that surprised foreigners:

Due to a combination of circumstances, I have taken over twenty plane flights this year. I do not recommend this and will try not to replicate it in the future. I have, however, learned a few things about life during my Year of Flying Constantly. And now I'm sharing them with you.

A summer jaunt with your friends can be a source of beautiful memories — or an expensive deathmarch of awkwardness and acrimony. Here's how to make sure it's the former.

What with body scans and TSA gropings, this promises to be an especially hellish holiday travel season. But travel has always been an opportunity for horrible and/or hilarious mishaps, and now we want to hear about yours.

Now that a suspect in the Natalee Holloway case is wanted for the murder of another woman, one blogger issues a warning to all young women traveling alone. But where's the line between being careful and being cloistered?

37% of travelers admit to stealing from hotels. While most of us steal towels and mugs, one British hotel claims their sex toys, available by request, are the most frequently stolen items. [Telegraph]

I don't mean, have you done one. But, was it actually fun and relaxing, like, you know, the real thing? I seriously want to know!