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The Cyber Monday sale from American Airlines is good for daily travel from December 3 through March 7.

Sun Country's contribution to Cyber Monday is good for travel to/from Minneapolis from January 8 through May 22. Fares are valid for travel into or out of Lansing, Washington DC, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Diego, and San Francisco.

TORONTO (Reuters) - While fear of the U.S. fiscal cliff promises to hold financial markets hostage at least to year-end, a surge in Black Friday shopping and a recovery in the U.S. housing market has Canadian investors looking to a few consumer-fed stocks for potential growth. The retreat of the U.S. consumer during the …

(Reuters) - Tiffany & Co lowered its fiscal-year sales and profit forecast for the third straight quarter and reported lower-than-expected revenue and earnings after a drop in same-store sales in its key Asia market. Shares slid more than 8 percent in premarket trading on Thursday. The high-end jeweler, famed for its blue …

THOUSAND OAKS, California (Reuters) - California has been one of Graeme McDowell's happiest hunting grounds and he is delighted to be back in the 'Golden State' for this week's World Challenge. The Northern Irishman won his first major title in the 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach in Northern California, then five months …

THOUSAND OAKS, California, Nov 28 (Reuters) - California has been one of Graeme McDowell's happiest hunting grounds and he is delighted to be back in the 'Golden State' for this week's World Challenge. The Northern Irishman won his first major title in the 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach in Northern California, then five …

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Sports car maker Aston Martin may look like a shiny trophy that makes an awkward fit for Mahindra and Mahindra , the world's biggest tractor maker, but it would help the Indian group realize a long-standing ambition to be a global player. Despite its efforts, Mahindra has had a hard time building a presence …

From elaborately decorated trees to drive-through lighting displays to boat parades and train shows, a variety of holiday spectacles are being staged through the end of December and into early January around the country. Here are a few of them.

With cactus and strip malls obstructing the views at times, visitors could easily write Phoenix off as a place where water and culture are scarce. But this metropolis — which includes upscale Scottsdale and college town Tempe — is a nature lover's oasis with pristine peaks and the vast Sonoran desert.

From memoirs and maps to beautiful hard-covers suitable for coffee-table display, here are some ideas for holiday gifts from this year's crop of travel books and publications. (Prices shown are cover list prices.)

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's privately-owned Dalian Wanda Group, the world's largest movie theater owner, is in talks with "well-known" hotel chains for acquisition opportunities in the United States, its chairman said on Monday. Wanda, which also has interests in real estate, tourism and department stores, bought U.S.-based …

Hawaii is on track to welcome a record number of visitors to the islands this year, the Hawaii Tourism Authority said Thursday.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The Kenyan shilling traded flat against the dollar on Friday and was expected to firm in coming days, helped by money sent home by the country's diaspora and income from tourism. Commercial banks quoted the shilling at 85.85/95 per dollar at 0757 GMT, unchanged from Thursday's close. "We normally see …

DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has "effectively closed the country's remaining forum for free speech" with a decree issued earlier this month that tightened the law on online dissent, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. The U.S.-allied UAE, a Gulf trading and tourism hub and big oil producer, has not seen …

Federal consumer-protection officials have warned hotel operators against tacking on unexpected fees that are not apparent when people book rooms on their websites.

Tourists will soon have a new way to see the lights of Las Vegas: By being spit out of the mouth of an 11-story slot machine and zinged down a five-block zip line past some of the city's oldest casinos.

ONEKAMA, Mich. - For more than a century, easy access to Lake Michigan has made Onekama a popular place for summer visitors and a refuge for boaters fleeing dangerous storms. Now the community itself needs a rescue, from slumping lake levels that threaten its precious link to open water.

RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco would rather pursue a strategic partnership for Royal Air Maroc (RAM), with an airline from one of the Gulf states or beyond, than sell a stake in its flag carrier, government ministers said late on Monday. A government source last month said that partnership proposals included the sale of a minority …

MRAUK-U, Myanmar - It was dusk in a corner of Myanmar recently shaken by some of the bloodiest sectarian violence in a generation, and a dozen Canadian tourists climbed to the top of a grassy hill, cameras ready to capture the sweeping view.

It was dusk in a corner of Myanmar recently shaken by some of the bloodiest sectarian violence in a generation, and a dozen Canadian tourists climbed to the top of a grassy hill, cameras ready to capture the sweeping view.

SAN JOSE (Reuters) - When Canadian house cleaner Marlene Trithardt needed a tooth replaced, she drove past her local dentist's office in Alberta and flew to the beach paradise of Costa Rica - to save money. Trithardt is one of a growing number of North Americans who turn south for medical care lured by lower prices, contributing …

More than three dozen local tourism projects in Virginia are receiving state grants.