The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority board adopted new travel rules Wednesday after criticism from outsiders and a federal inspector general about lavish spending in exotic locales on annual travel budgets reaching as high as $260,000.

Board members once spent $4,800 on three dinners in Hawaii and $9,200 on a last-minute airplane ticket to Prague.

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