Forbes Travel Features

• Hobbies Of The Future Thu, 2 Jul 09 23:38

  These days, we blog, tweet and play online poker. Who, in 2009, still builds model airplanes? Or keeps company with a knitting circle? Have old-fashioned hobbies have gone out of fashion?
• Forbes' Best Bartenders Thu, 2 Jul 09 23:38

  It's a Thursday night in midtown Manhattan, and people are thirsty. At P.J. Clarke's, a classic after-work joint on 55th Street and 3rd Avenue, the bar is packed front to back with every shade of suit and high heel. Behind the long, sturdy oak bar, bartender Doug Quinn is making magic.
• America's Prettiest Road Trips Thu, 2 Jul 09 23:38

  In his famous novel Big Sur, Jack Kerouac describes the Californian locale of the same name as a "poor haunted canyon which again gives me the willies."
• Ten Dangerous Countries For Drivers Thu, 2 Jul 09 23:38

  Think twice about planning your next road trip in Russia, Slovakia or Poland. Those countries top a newly released list of nations with the most road fatalities.
• Fifteen Cheap Countries To See In The Recession Thu, 2 Jul 09 23:38

  The latest resident of the recession-era bargain bin: a private island in Fiji. Paul De Domenico, a former food industry executive who'd been asking $35 million for his 800-acre slice of paradise, is lowering his price by nearly 20%.
• Ten Countries To Avoid Now Thu, 2 Jul 09 23:38

  Though many travelers have crossed Mexico off their summer wish lists, it's not the only region with a travel alert.
• What Americans Are Willing To Give Up Thu, 2 Jul 09 23:38

  Newlywed Samantha Slaven-Bick, 38, a Los Angeles publicist, and her husband Stewart Bick, 46, decided to forgo their honeymoon. Marketing executive Saretta Holler, 33, and her fiancé Judson Brown, 32, fired their cleaning lady. Allen Chen, 30, a communications assistant at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, N.Y., gave up his season tickets to the Mets.
• America's Favorite Foreign Retailers Thu, 2 Jul 09 23:38

  As the recession deepens and consumers tighten their belts, mid-priced U.S. clothing retailers like The Gap and Ann Taylor are suffering, while European stores like H&M and Zara continue to make inroads with American buyers. On April 2, Topshop, owned by British billionaire Philip Green's Arcadia Group, will open its first U.S. store in downtown Manhattan.
• The World's Swankiest Golf Courses Thu, 2 Jul 09 23:38

  What defines a swanky golf course? Is it a velvety green oasis in the middle of a Persian Gulf metropolis? An ultra-exclusive spread planted with 20,000 pine trees in the Nevada dessert, accessible only by limousine, that charges $500 a round? A Bangkok, Thailand, novelty with doting caddies who serve stiff glasses of 12-year-old scotch after every third hole?