Beaches Resorts Expands Its Advanced Certified Autism Center Status to 2023
Sixteen years ago, Joel Ryan, the Sandals Resorts International Group Manager of Themed Entertainment and Children’s Activities, was a Camp… Read More »
Wyndham Expands Into Asia & The Pacific
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts opened over 125 new hotels in Asia and the Pacific during the pandemic, with plans for… Read More »
Senate Bill Calls for CDC to Repeal Conditional Sailing Order, Restart Cruising by July
New legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate today aims to rescind the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) current Conditional… Read More »
AmaWaterways Adds Second 45-Night River Cruise as Demand Soars
AmaWaterways has recently launched a second Seven River Journey Through Europe cruise after demand soared for its summer itinerary. The new… Read More »
Iceland’s PLAY start-up nets $35mn in funding, hires new CEO
PLAY (FPY, Reykjavik Keflavik) claims to have raised about USD35 million through a private share offering, its new investors including… Read More »
Canada’s Air Tunilik given $3.9mn in Quebec state aid
The state of Québec has granted the seaplane operator Air Tunilik CAD5 million Canadian dollars (USD3.9 million) for an expansion… Read More »
RAM suspends numerous flights after Morocco closes airspace
Royal Air Maroc (AT, Casablanca Int’l) and its regional subsidiary Royal Air Maroc Express (RXP, Casablanca Int’l) have suspended flights… Read More »
Nigeria’s Air Peace has own MRO plans
Nigeria’s Air Peace (P4, Lagos) has long-term plans to set up its own Maintenance Repair Overhaul (MRO) facility to avoid… Read More »
China Central Longhao Airlines to add widebody freighters
China Central Longhao Airlines (GI, Zhengzhou) is set to add its first widebody freighters after Cargo Facts identified the Chinese… Read More »
Ottawa takes equity in Air Canada for C$5.9bn in aid
Air Canada (AC, Montréal Trudeau) and the Canadian government have agreed on a financial aid package that gives the flag… Read More »
France unveils first short domestic flight ban legislation
France is poised to ban all domestic flights that can otherwise be done by train in less than 2.5 hours… Read More »
LATAM Airlines Brasil retires all A350s
LATAM Airlines Brasil (JJ, Sao Paulo Congonhas) has announced it will retire all of its eleven A350-900s with immediate effect… Read More »
Oslo court and creditors back Norwegian survival plan
Oslo County Court approved Norwegian’s reconstruction plan in Norway on April 12, adding to an earlier approval in Ireland. With… Read More »
Quarantine pushes Canadians to fly to US border cities
The Canadian requirement that incoming air passengers quarantine at designated — and expensive — hotels has pushed Canadians returning home… Read More »
Buttigieg: Cruises could resume by midsummer
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he is hopeful that the ban on cruises will be lifted by summer. Cruise ships… Read More »
SION to power SmartFlyer’s commission tracking system
SmartFlyer’s new commission management system is by SION, a SaaS platform-provider. The system streamlines tracking and management with single-click processes… Read More »
TV’s Vern Yip will star in Mackinac’s Grand Hotel redo
Designer Vern Yip of HGTV and TLC’s “Trading Spaces” fame will be in charge of the Grand Hotel facelift at… Read More »
Dominican Republican tourism jump led by US travelers
Americans are spearheading a rebound in Dominican Republic tourism, where hotel occupancy reached 70.6% in the last week of March,… Read More »
Convention business is rebounding, Caesars CEO says
While mask-wearing and other COVID-19 safety precautions will remain in place, business groups are enthusiastic about coming back to Las… Read More »
Vornado to raze hotel for development plans near Penn Station
Vornado Realty Trust plans to raze the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan as part of plans to create a premier development… Read More »
Calif. bill would return former Black resort to family
An African-American-owned oceanfront resort in Los Angeles County that was confiscated by the government a century ago would revert to… Read More »
Neb.’s Fonner Park complex to be home to casino-resort
Elite Casino Resorts has been approved to build a $100 million facility at the Fonner Park horse-racing complex in Grand… Read More »
Outlook: Europe hotel dealing will inch up after crash
Hotel transaction volume in Europe plummeted 69% last year, to $10.1 billion from a record $32.3 billion in 2019, European… Read More »
Creative questions can help team members connect
Team meetings can have a better sense of connection by having more gregarious people offer prompts such as “What’s your… Read More »
How do you feel about the state of diversity in the industry?
Do you work in food and hospitality? Want to contribute to a report that will identify action steps for the… Read More »
Urban farmer aims to nix barriers to healthy food access
St. Louis resident Eugenia Alexander, who was inspired to grow her own produce during the pandemic, is now focusing her… Read More »