Man was taken into custody after he climbed onto the wing of an airplane preparing to takeoff in Las Vegas

A man was taken into custody after he climbed onto the wing of an Alaska Airlines plane at the Las Vegas airport Saturday, an airport spokesman said.

Airbnb’s Shiny $100 Billion Valuation and 14 Other Top Travel Stories This Week

In Skift's top travel stories this week, we covered the Airbnb IPO from every angle. There were other stories, too, including Google launching new tools for destinations and hotels, a road warrior who's flown three dozen times since September, a property manager picking up Stay Alfred scraps. -Dennis Schaal

Rediscovered 70-year-old photos spark worldwide quest

Irish camera collector William Fagan developed an old roll of film, unearthing beautiful 1950s travel photos taken in Switzerland and Italy. Now he's trying to track down the couple in the shots.

Hong Kong temporarily blocks some airlines' routes in Covid-19 prevention measure

Hong Kong has put a temporary ban on four international airlines from flying specific routes into the city under a new law aimed at stopping the spread of Covid-19.

Festival apologizes over packed, maskless beach parties in Mexico

The organizers of a "international arts, music and cultural festival" have apologized after images and video posted on social media revealed packed crowds of partiers without masks in Mexico's hipster resort town of Tulum.

10 favourite travel discoveries of 2020: readers' tips

From local woods and nature reserves to rural idylls in Europe and beyond, our tipsters delighted in their finds this strange year Like many I suppose, we found lockdown gifted us that most beautiful of thing: time, but also, with two boys under five, the absolute necessity to get out of the house. Just a few miles from us, between Chichester and Arundel, is Eartham Wood. This beech woodland, spliced almost perfectly in half by Stane Street – the Roman road that used to connect Chichester and London – is zigzagged by bridleways and footpaths, and is part of the Monarch’s Way long-distance path. Even on gloriously sunny weekends you can walk for hours and not hear another voice. Tom Walters Continue reading...

United Airlines Spurns Carbon Offsets With New Effort to Go Green

United Airlines plans to stay ahead of the pack with a new effort to go "100 percent green." But it's unclear whether the decision to invest in something called direct carbon sequestration plants is any better than the industry norm of buying offsets for the nearly billion tons of greenhouse gases planes pump into the atmosphere every year. -Edward Russell