Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Sands covers travel and the hospitality industry. Travel and history have long been joined at the hip. Traveling to ...

New information adds Illinois’ Old State Capitol in Springfield to the Underground Railroad network, and a special event at a deep southern Illinois state park aims to teach children the importance of ...

Now that the pandemic is almost history, travelers are poised to discover their own. After two years of being locked down and quarantined, Americans are embarking on ambitious trips to discover ...

A painted section of the historic Boston Freedom Trail in Downtown Crossing (Shown in photo), seen in 2014. It’s summertime, which calls to mind the perennial question for parents: where can we take ...

The American South – and the nation more broadly – continues to wrestle with how to remember its most painful chapters. Tourism is one of the arenas where that struggle is most visible. Soon after the ...

Presented for the first time, an unmatched series of lectures on the History and Heritage of Thailand, The Greatest Story in Global Tourism history. 2025 is the year the Tourism Authority of Thailand ...

Tourist postcard of the National Casino a Marianao in Havana, c1910. History News Network This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical ...

Black history is often told through the lens of enslavement and segregation, focusing on centuries of struggle as opposed to centering the progress and positive strides Black people continue to make ...

West of Cancún’s tourist-filled beaches, a network of ancient walking paths and disused railway lines has been transformed into the Camino del Mayab (the Maya Way), Mexico’s first long-distance trail.