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Travelers in the United States are used to tipping a multitude of people, from the baristas who make their frothy coffee concoctions to restaurant servers, parking valets, hotel housekeepers and Uber drivers.

Travelers have plenty of enticing reasons to visit Mumbai, a city of 21.6 million people, and India's largest.

From Bangkok to Beijing here are some of the hottest new spots around the region due to open for business in 2019.

Business owners near Joshua Tree and other national parks are still reeling from the federal government shutdown and fear the possibility of another.

There are the five-star hotels with excellent concierge services -- and then there are the five-star hotels that provide you with a personal 24-hour butler for the duration of your stay.

FlipFlopi Project is an ambitious initiative making waves in the waters of East Africa. Instead of traditional wood, these dhows use recycled plastic.

The First World Hotel in Hangzhou, China, has built a "human hot pot." It's a spring pool in which tourists can chew on meat skewers while they bathe in produce-filled compartments.

Officials have started removing hundreds of crocodiles from the site of the world's largest statue in India, prompting an outcry from conservationists and concerns about the welfare of the reptiles.

Hardcore fans of Disney's 2016 animated buddy cop comedy "Zootopia" are going to have to pencil China into their upcoming travel plans.

Japan's famous bullet trains may have revolutionized high-speed rail travel, but there are still many travelers who prefer a scenic slow ride on one of the country's old-fashioned regional trains.

Spanish officials are trying to find someone responsible for plane that has been parked on the tarmac, without moving, for years.

Tempted by the recent offer of an Italian home for just over a $1? Well, you might want to hold out for a better deal.

This concrete colossus perched in the Balkan Mountains still stands as a weird relic to Bulgaria's Soviet era

Picture the scene: rows of identical, palatial turreted buildings, surrounded by rolling hills and woodland.

The Atlanta house where slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. raised his family with Coretta Scott King will eventually be open to the public, the National Park Foundation, the National Park Service and the King family said.

From colorful Parga and the stunning beaches of Sivota to the low-key port of Preveza, the Epirotic coast is dazzling.

The remains of Matthew Flinders, the British explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate Australia, have been found under a London train station, according to the company developing a major rail link.

Hospitality and food -- specifically the many different Turkish kebab recipes -- are the best way to understand Istanbul's many cultural and culinary influences.