Travel

They’re the keeper of our valuables at the airport, the repository of comfort-providing necessities during our flights and, if we pack right, our ticket to a quick escape from the airport at flight’s end.

Harry Potter is set to take over Hollywood.

Any old city can string up a few lights downtown and call it a holiday celebration. From Mexico to Malta, northern lights to sunny skies, these places are doing Christmas better than the rest this year.

Rome is bracing for the arrival of millions of pilgrims for the Roman Catholic Holy Year which officials had hoped could revitalize the scandal-plagued city, but which threatens to be more of a headache than a help.

Demand for Christmas trips to Paris has slumped following last month’s Islamist militant attacks in the French capital, according to data from travel information firm Forward Keys.