itineraries

As airlines come up with ever more ancillary fees, travelers are figuring out creative ways to avoid them.

Travel spending in the United States is expected to decline by 9 percent this year, to $705 billion, and to recover only part of that in 2010.

The use of full names on reservations is one of the changes coming as federal agents take over the job of checking passengers against terrorist watch lists.

Owners of luxury hotels, facing debt payments, sometimes want their operators to raise revenue by cutting room rates — a move operators resist because it cheapens the brand.