Airlines Adding Flights to Alaska
Unless something changes, cruise lines might not be able to sail into Alaska this summer during the lucrative tourist season but it’s… Read More »
Work Remotely – From the Rooftop of This Maui Beach Resort
This may be the best Work-From-Home Package yet. Many hotels are offering office workers—long-shuttered in home offices during the COVID-19… Read More »
Marriott Bonvoy To Add Almost 70 Independent Hotels This Year
Marriott International announced it plans to expand its independent hotel brands by adding seventy new hotels as part of the… Read More »
Accor Leads With COVID-19 Testing Options
The hospitality company, Accor, announced that it will be one of the first major hospitality companies to deliver COVID-19 testing options… Read More »
Marriott International Elects David Marriott, Horacio Rozanski to Board of Directors
Marriott International’s Board of Directors announced it has elected David Marriott, President, U.S. Full Service Managed by Marriott at Marriott… Read More »
Diamond Resorts Offers Guests Chance to Play Golf With Professionals
Diamond Resorts is now offering its guests exclusive Golf Getaway packages for travelers who love to golf, with an opportunity for… Read More »
Cruising Is Back on US Waterways
Cruising on U.S. waterways is officially back. American Cruise Line’s 100-passenger Independence departed March 13 from Amelia Island/Jacksonville, Fla., for an eight-day… Read More »
Seabourn Extends Flexible Cancelation Policy Through May 31
Luxury line Seabourn has extended its “Book with Confidence” policy through May 31, 2021. For bookings made by May 31, 2021, on… Read More »
Lindblad Expeditions Launches New Itineraries
Lindblad Expeditions announced new itineraries this month, promising epic new adventures, along with the debut of two new polar ships…. Read More »
Carnival CEO Believes Cruise Industry Won’t Bounce Back Until 2023
Carnival Corporation & plc chief executive officer Arnold Donald said during a recent interview that he believes the cruise industry… Read More »
Cruise Trends One Year Into the COVID-19 Pandemic
March Cruise Trends Online cruise marketplace CruiseCompete has released its CruiseTrends report for March 2021, painting a picture of trends in consumer behavior… Read More »
UK’s Jet2 set to tap into CCFF facility with £200mn issuance
Jet2 plc will go ahead with the issuance of GBP200 million pounds (USD278.55 million) worth of commercial paper after it… Read More »
Gov’t takes control of Air Vanuatu after sacking its board
The government of the Pacific island of Vanuatu has taken control of Air Vanuatu (NF, Port Vila) after firing its… Read More »
China’s YTO Cargo Airlines secures B767 freighter feedstock
YTO Cargo Airlines (YG, Hangzhou) has bought its first B767-300(ER) for conversion into a freighter and expects to complete the… Read More »
Hawaiian Airlines Launches New Orlando-to-Honolulu Flights
Hawaiian Airlines today announced new, twice-weekly nonstop service between Orlando (MCO) and Honolulu (HNL) that will conveniently connect the Sunshine to the Aloha state. Passengers… Read More »
Spring Break Prompts Pandemic-Era Record Number of Air Travelers
Folks who are expecting airports and planes to be fairly empty amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic are in for a… Read More »
Start-Up Airline Breeze Airways Gets DOT Approval
Breeze Airways, the start-up airline created by JetBlue founder David Neeleman, has cleared a huge hurdle. The U.S. Department of… Read More »
Planet Hollywood and The LINQ Hotels To Return To Full-Week Operations
Casino-resort giant Caesars Entertainment today announced that it plans to resume hotel operations seven days a week at Las Vegas’ Planet Hollywood Resort… Read More »
Norway’s Wideroe to debut electric aircraft in 2026
Widerøe (WF, Bodø) is set to become the world’s first commercial operator of a wholly electrically-powered commuter aircraft as it… Read More »
Passenger Arrested for Urinating in Seat, Pushing Flight Attendant
An Alaska Airlines passenger allegedly urinated in his seat, pushed a flight attendant and refused to wear a face mask… Read More »
FAA Proposes $14,500 Civil Penalty Against Passenger
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is proposing a $14,500 civil penalty against an airline passenger for allegedly interfering with flight… Read More »
New Hotel Openings To Look for in 2021
New Hotels The year 2020 was a difficult one for hotel operators, but 2021 shows new promise. Hotels must also… Read More »
IATA says Travel Pass can eliminate virus test fraud
The International Air Transport Association is touting its Travel Pass as a way to establish reliable proof of negative coronavirus… Read More »
Travelers United sues MGM Resorts over “drip pricing”
MGM Resorts is being sued by Travelers United, a nonprofit travel advocacy group, over its “drip pricing” policy that charges… Read More »
A tour of the best castles in the US sounded regal
Today’s dose of mental vacationing takes you to some rather royal properties. This storybook map takes you on a tour… Read More »
Kessler group takes lead in adopting cryptocurrency
The Kessler Collection has become the first US luxury hotel group to accept cryptocurrency as payment. “I believe cryptocurrency is… Read More »