Forbes Travel Guide’s 2025 Edge List, The Best Maui Hotels And More Travel News

 As overtourism strains urban infrastructure and crowds out Instagram-famous destinations, Forbes Travel Guide’s 2025 Edge List encourages luxury travelers to trade tourist traps for untamed wilderness, swap selfie spots for soul-stirring encounters and experience comfort and elegance in places where amenities are not so easily found. From Bali to Belize, these 20 hotels and cruises redefine luxury travel by offering extraordinary access, daring innovation and elevated experiences in the world’s most awe-inspiring locations.

A Fall Foliage Prediction Map For Leaf-Peeping Season

Longtime leaf peepers know that catching the peak fall foliage windows doesn’t just happen by luck or happenstance—it requires actual planning. From Maine to Oregon, this fall foliage prediction map takes the guesswork out of finding the most vibrant colors of the season.Maui isn’t known as “The Magic Isle” for nothing. Hawaii’s second-largest island by size—the Big Island is known as the Big Island for a reason as well—boasts 120 miles of coastline, Instagram-worthy waterfalls, and an endless array of luxury resorts. The editors of Forbes Travel Guide recently named the six best Maui resorts to help find your Hawaiian paradise.

“Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.”

— Paul Theroux

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The Six Best Maui Hotels

Traveling with a small child may allow you to board a plane early, but it also requires plenty of preparation—particularly that first international trip with a baby. In fact, U.S. passports for children under 16 follow different rules than adults, from who must appear in person to what counts as acceptable consent. Here’s what you need to know about your child’s first passport.

England’s Top Country House Hotels 2025

With Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale arriving in theaters this weekend, Anglophiles will be dreaming of another holiday in the English countryside. But which of the countless castles and magnificent manors is worth the trip? The World Travel Awards made the task a little easier recently with the 2025 nominees for the England’s Leading Country House Hotel—from Estelle Manor in Oxfordshire to Beaverbrook in Surrey Hills.