A few travelers are canceling their trips, while others are reconsidering the vacations they plan to take this fall.

Many travelers have canceled trips by air and taken trains or cars instead, even across the country.

Many travelers canceled trips, and people across the region flocked to stores yesterday to buy food, batteries, rock salt, snow shovels, ice scrapers and other supplies.

The deal comes as vacation bookings slide and some travelers cancel plans in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.

The trade-off is that if the traveler cancels there is no refund and the purchaser must stop over for a Saturday night before flying back.

At the airports, harried travelers bore up relatively well under the strain of the delayed and canceled flights, showing more resignation than anger.

When a traveler cancels, most companies will charge a fee and-or a percentage of the package price, based on how many days in advance the trip is canceled.

European travel agents are steering people away from Turkey because they fear outbreaks of terrorism, and some American travelers are canceling their plans to go there as well.

The industry fears that many travelers will cancel their plans because they do not have passports or cannot obtain them quickly enough.

Then, too, many travelers will not cancel vacations, but simply go elsewhere.