At half past six at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, on 29 August 1895, rugby split. Officials from leading northern rugby clubs, fed up with southern clubs’s elitism and their insistence on maintaining amateurism – a ruse to keep the northern teams down – voted to form a Northern Rugby Football Union, […]

Text size Los Angeles International Airport amid the pandemic. Mario Tama/Getty Images You may be more likely to catch Covid-19 from someone at home than sitting on a packed, 12-hour flight with strangers. That’s one takeaway from a new study on transmission of the virus on planes, sponsored by the […]

With all the heated discussions about Google dominating travel and increasing calls by industry pundits and experts to lessen hospitality’s dependency on the search giant, one thing is for certain: cash-strapped hoteliers today simply cannot just pause or abandon their marketing presence on Google. Today, despite the crisis and all […]

The latest titles from Arcade1Up has been long requested by fans of the fighting genre, finally packing many iconic titles in one cabinet with the Marvel Vs. Capcom and X-Men vs. Street Fighter releases. With two cabinets with their own unique designs for each release as well as its own […]

Cleaning protocols, sanitary standards and hygiene procedures. In the age of COVID-19, these terms have become omnipresent. Most hotel groups have implemented new security and hygiene protocols to reassure guests and make them feel safe. All those standards come with high costs (mostly on the hotel owner’s side), while hotel […]

© Provided by Shape Getty Images When the country shut down back in March, you likely thought ‘Oh, a two-week quarantine? I’ve got this.’ But as your spring, summer, and fall plans were eventually canceled, you likely realized that social distancing, mask-wearing, and state-wide […]

Hours after sunset, our team had finally decrypted the poems and exposed the nine oracles. With the traitor in our midst unmasked and the guardian revealed, the portal to the library began to open. Then my computer crashed, and I missed the climactic moments of the Secret Library, an online […]

MoDot is now NoDot. The misplaced panel on the Circa hotel tower’s 30th floor has been corrected. That work was finished at about 6 p.m. Friday. MoDot was a well-known design flaw, social-media posting subject and conversation piece on Circa’s east-facing hotel tower. The paneling error was discovered in July […]

Coronavirus (COVID-19) has affected nearly every aspect of our lives. As travelers start to rediscover the world again, it’s not surprising that the majority (79%) are planning to take more health and safety related precautions when traveling in the future with over half (59%) opting to avoid certain destinations altogether […]