Southwest Joins Other Airlines in Banning Emotional Support Animals
Southwest Airlines has joined fellow carriers American, United, Delta and JetBlue by banning emotional support animals during flight. The new… Read More »
Optimistic Sun Country Airlines Adds 16 New Routes
An optimistic Sun Country Airlines, buoyed by what CEO Jude Bricker believes is the start of a turnaround for the… Read More »
Alaska Airlines Takes Delivery of First Boeing 737-9 MAX
Alaska Airlines announced it accepted the delivery of its first Boeing 737-9 MAX airplane on Sunday. The carrier’s first 737-9 was… Read More »
Hertz Giving Away Free Car, Home Cleaning for a Year
Car rental giant Hertz is looking to help travelers during the coronavirus outbreak by offering a new sweepstakes featuring a grand prize… Read More »
The Ultimate Girls Getaway in the Caribbean
The year 2020 was no doubt a challenging year for all. Everyone’s world was flipped upside down in early spring,… Read More »
Vacation Villa Rental Demand Is Rising Due To COVID-19
Luxury villa rental provider Villas of Distinction reports that it’s seeing increased demand among travel consumers for U.S. domestic villas as a… Read More »
Hyatt Now Offering Free COVID-19 Tests in All Latin American Hotels
Hyatt announced that all nineteen of its properties in Latin America, including those in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America,… Read More »
Wyndham Announces Seven Hotels for Namesake Brand
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, the world’s largest hotel franchising company with approximately 9,000 hotels across 90 countries, today announced plans… Read More »
Travel Trends Driving Record River Cruise Bookings
AmaWaterways was the only U.S.-based river cruise company to sail in Europe during 2020, and the cruise line has noticed some… Read More »
Holland America Line’s 2022-23 Extended Grand Voyages Open for Booking
Holland America Line’s Grand Voyages are made for dreamers, adventurers and explorers seeking to discover new cultures and illuminating experiences…. Read More »
Azamara To Get a Fourth Ship Under New Ownership
Equity firm Sycamore Partners plans to add a fourth sister ship when it acquires boutique cruise line Azamara from Royal Caribbean Group…. Read More »
MSC Grandiosa Resumes Service in the Western Mediterranean
MSC Cruises’ flagship MSC Grandiosa departed the evening of Jan. 24 from Genoa, Italy, as it resumes seven-night cruises in the Mediterranean…. Read More »
Carnival Cancels More Cruises, Suspends San Diego Season
Carnival Cruise Line has canceled some cruises through November 2021 as it moves ships in preparation for its phased-in return to… Read More »
Should you be taking out more loans?
With many small businesses just barely hanging on, National Business Capital & Services CEO Joe Camberato believes now is the… Read More »
Baby kangaroo hops aboard American flight
Video of a baby kangaroo hopping onto a flight operated by PSA, American Airlines’ regional affiliate, is lighting up social… Read More »
Boutique hotel in Mexico returns guests to 1693 in style
An American-born designer has transformed a 17th-century house in Guanajuato, Mexico, into a luxury boutique hotel with three distinctive suites… Read More »
Pacific Princess sold by Princess Cruises
Pacific Princess, in service since 1999, has been sold by Princess Cruises, which is removing its less efficient ships. The… Read More »
American Airlines to sell its onboard wines online
American Airlines is expanding its prestigious Flagship wine program into an online program, Flagship Cellars, that makes its onboard wines… Read More »
Hawaii’s losses in lodging will lead nation, study says
Hawaii will fare the worst of any state in a US hotel industry that’s expected to continue taking a beating… Read More »
Compact-but-classy weddings help hotels feel the love
Luxury hotels are capitalizing on the pandemic’s discouragement of elaborate weddings by offering intimate “elopement” packages whose price tags can… Read More »
Airlines oppose quarantine for international passengers
Airlines have joined other travel industry advocates in opposing President Joe Biden’s order requiring quarantines for incoming international passengers and… Read More »
Disputed Hyatt Place plan approved in Portland, Ore.
The Portland, Ore., City Council rejected a citizens group’s remonstrance against a proposed 23-story Hyatt Place hotel in Central City…. Read More »
New Orleans resort takes Holiday Inn into new territory
A 127-year-old former upscale apartment building in New Orleans is the site of Holiday Inn’s first foray into the upscale… Read More »
Hotel occupancy rate fell to 44% in 2020
US hotel occupancy declined from 66% in 2019 to 44% in 2020, and the industry surpassed 1 billion unsold room… Read More »
Vaccine passports key for restart of travel, UNWTO says
Zurab Pololikashvili, secretary-general of the United Nations World Tourism Organization, said vaccine passports should become essential travel documents to ensure… Read More »
Deadline of water park project in Colo. extended
The state commission has given developer P3 Partners a deadline extension to Nov. 12 to either secure final financing or… Read More »