You may have never heard of it, but Belo Horizonte does have a claim to fame: as the bar capital of Brazil.

  Where you go for your Caribbean vacation is usually decided by which islands have nonstop flights from your hometown. Here is a rundown on the key new flights this season.

  A team of travel editors and writers from The New York Times uncover affordable places to stay, eat, drink and shop in the Caribbean. Explore all 13 islands.

  Exploring Inwood and Washington Heights, you can experience more Dominican culture in a weekend than you would in a month in an all-inclusive island resort.

  ?Dead Man in Paradise: Unraveling a Murder From a Time of Revolution?is a smart and unpretentious nonfiction thriller about the Dominican Republic by J. B. MacKinnon.

  Cancún meets South Beach at this upscale, 448-room hotel, which opened in December.

  Antigua has a new all-inclusive resort, the Verandah Resort and Spa, on the east coast?s Dian Bay.

  Although housing projects dominate some parts of Calle Orizaba in Roma, there is a leafy stretch between two plazas that is an oasis of European grandeur.

  On occasions during a flight when someone has accidentally spilled food on me, I take solace in the knowledge that the reason I fly is to help make a difference in someone?s life.

  Car rental companies have responded to complaints about time wasted on the road by offering devices that help customers navigate unfamiliar roads and tollbooths.

  More lines are launching extended itineraries that traverse the farthest reaches of the globe.

  Sleep, or the difficulty of getting it while flying, is what frequent business travelers talk about most.

  The number of customers buying travel online has begun to shrink, the first time a category has lost shoppers since Forrester Research began tracking e-commerce 10 years ago.

  Why won?t NASA release the results of a survey of 8,000 commercial pilots that sought to track safety problems and determine if they were worsening?