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Homebuilder Toll Brothers Inc. and coffee chain Starbucks Corp. helped send Wall Street sharply lower Tuesday after giving investors more evidence that the housing market and consumer spending are getting weaker. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more...

When the world went to financial hell in a handbasket in the Great Depression, people went to the movies. Today they go to Montana or maybe even Mongolia. But if your 401(k) just did a swan dive -- and whose didn't? -- you may be considering putting your...

Holiday Inn, part of the world's largest hotel company, will launch a time-share brand late this year in partnership with Kissimmee-based Orange Lake Resorts, the two businesses announced Wednesday. Through a licensing agreement, the 1,400-acre Orange...

The Lexington Orlando CityPlace is getting a fresh start as the beleaguered downtown hotel prepares to adopt a well-known luxury brand. S&L Hospitality, the Wisconsin-based company that bought the Lexington in April, said Tuesday it has an agreement to...

If you're a member of an airline or hotel loyalty reward program, chances are you've received an offer in the mail to sign up for the company's affiliated credit card. Don't just toss the offer in the garbage like another piece of junk mail. Signing up...

Traveling by train is so retro. Or maybe not. Tech-savvy Amtrak riders can call up video games and DVDs on free media players and, through a special website, use mobile devices to buy rail tickets. On board, the train's staff processes charge cards at...

International investing used to be a nice thing to do, a diversification move that indicated you were a little more sophisticated than the average investor. But it is becoming a mainstream strategy designed to snare better returns than the U.S. stock...

Early each morning, hundreds of street kids - the trash-pickers, beggars, water-carriers and taxi touts - pile through the gates of a slightly rundown school. They arrive like children: shouting, shy, curious, nervous. And like survivors of war: thin,...

CHRIS WILLIAMS appreciates plush surroundings. In December, he and his wife, Alice, stayed in a $350-a-night Ritz-Carlton in Florida. "Marble everything," he said. But last month, the couple from Rome, Ga., decided on the Holiday Inn Express...

BEFORE booking my airplane ticket, I carefully researched the availability of a hotel room in Barth, a small town on the Baltic Sea in Germany. In early November, the Ringhotel Speicher, the only hotel in this town of 10,000, had plenty of rooms when I...

Travel news — industry disputes, general trends, new companies and travel services — sometimes has as much bearing on your next vacation as a special airfare or hotel bargain. Here are some recent travel stories that may affect your plans:...

There's nothing like a natural disaster at a tourist destination to kick the machine of public relations into full spin cycle. Appealing for aid, governments paint a dark picture of destruction. Eager to regain business, the tourism industry cranks out...