Paris’s charm is palpable, starting with its café tables full of fashionable people spilling out onto the sidewalks. You’ll be tempted to spend your whole visit people watching while enjoying a glass of Clos Montmartre or an espresso. And if you learn just a few French...

If you've got business in what may be this country's most multi-monikered city—Chi-town, also know as the City of Broad Shoulders, the Windy City, Second City, and That Toddling Town—be sure to make time to play as well as work: Chicago's beguiling leisure choices outnumber...

The first time Valerie Blum traveled to Tokyo for work, when her Japanese counterpart handed her his business card, she unthinkingly took it and stuck it in her purse without so much as a glance. “I knew from the raised eyebrow I got from my boss...