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Destinations
Bucket List Travel: Top 10 Places In The World And Top 29 In The U.S.
Do you have a travel bucket list? These days, more people are dreaming about travel than actually traveling. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t keep adding places to your travel bucket list. Lonely Planet has just released the second annual "Ultimate Travel List"…
— Forbes
Low fares to Mexico and the Caribbean trigger US travel rebound
It is common knowledge that the global pandemic has wreaked destruction on the travel industry, with total international arrivals in the third quarter of the year 94% down on the same period in 2019. But new research reveals that there may be a glimmer of hope immediately south of the…
— The Yucatan Times
The Latest Information On October COVID-19 Travel Restrictions
October is here, and we must continue to carefully choose where we travel. As is the trend in 2020, nearby trips are possible, but long-distance travel is off-limits for most tourist destinations. However, travel restrictions are easing in some instances, including visiting…
— Forbes
Tours and Activities
In Austin, Tourists Often Miss the City's Black History
On nice days in Austin, people gather at Town Lake to canoe, bike, stroll, watch the sunset, and see the bats fly out from under the Congress Avenue Bridge. Many visitors don't know that Town Lake—also known as Lady Bird Lake, a section of the Colorado…
— Conde Nast Traveler
Cruise
Disney Cruise Line's new biggest ship, Disney Wish, gets date for maiden voyage
If you wish upon a star, your wish may come true. That is, if it’s to ride aboard Disney Cruise Line’s newest and largest ship, the Disney Wish. The ship’s maiden voyage has been set for the summer of 2022, Disney announced…
— FOX Business
HOW MUCH WILL KEY WEST'S CRUISE SHIP DEBATE COST?
As if the national political climate weren’t sufficiently contentious, the city of Key West is dealing with its own divisive debate over cruise ships. Voters will decide on Nov. 3 whether to significantly reduce the number and size of cruise ships that come to Key West. The Safer Cleaner Ships Committee claims the environmental impacts of large cruise ships are detrimental to the island’s marine…
— Florida Keys Weekly Newspapers
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Transportation
Coronavirus study finds air on planes is safer than homes or operating rooms
The study by United Airlines and others found that HEPA filters and high air turnover reduces the rate of COVID-19 infection by…
— USA Today
United Airlines Offers Preflight Rapid COVID-19 Testing At SFO As Hawaii Tourism Reopens
United Airlines has started offering pre-travel coronavirus testing at San Francisco International Airport. The option could have a significant impact on air travel to Hawaii, which is beginning to reopen to…
— CBS KPIX 5
Lodging
Hotels on demand: Operators are selling 'subscriptions' to lure back visitors
InterContinental Hotels Group, Marriott and Accor are among the major names that have launched or are considering monthly payment plans, as the hotel industry tries to attract restless remote workers ready for a change of…
— CNBC
Hotel Owners Launch 10,000 Letter Campaign to Save America’s Hotels
America’s hoteliers forcefully answered a call to action by AAHOA, sending more than 10,000 letters to Congress and the Trump administration as part of the “10,000 Letters, One Purpose” campaign.…
— Hotel Business
Other and Odd
This floating spaceport in Japan could bring space travel to the city
An urban spaceport that floats in Tokyo Bay is designed to make space travel more…
— CNN
Travel Leaders Network Debuts "Insider" Trips
Travel Leaders Network is offerings its advisors several opportunities to travel the globe, via exclusive "Insider" trips the company arranged to give its members a first look at traveling during the changing travel…
— Yahoo! Finance
Today in History
The Execution Of Marie Antoinette
At the height of the French Revolution, King Louis XVI and his Queen Marie Antoinette were imprisoned and deposed. No longer referred to by their royal titles, they became the "Carpets", a non-royal designation of their family name. At the age of 38 years, the former King was the first to go as he was tried for crimes against the French people and executed on January 21, 1793. Marie languished in prison, her health deteriorating in mourning. Plots to help her escape never materialized, and calls for mercy were dismissed by zealous members of the new French government. She was found guilty of treason on October 16, 1793, and executed that same day by guillotine, dressed in plain house clothing. She was buried in an…
— Travel Research Online
Agent Perspectives
Get Creative and Increase Your Profits From UK-Bound Tours
by Paull Tickner
Friday October 16, 2020
Cunard’s rece nt announcement of their new series of Mediterranean cruises set me thinking about some of the short programmes I can offer as pre- and post-cruise extensions from their main UK port of Southampton. The collection I’ve created includes Downton Abbey, the Cotswolds, Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Morse, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland, and the Beatles.
Given your knowledge of your client’s interests, generate some extra commission by offering them something that’s closer to their heart than a straight Southampton/London transfer!
Covid-19 has stalled UK-bound travel, but it hasn’t destroyed our historic sites, great cathedrals, abbeys, castles, and stately homes – or prevented Mother Nature from the annual refurbishment of our great gardens, both large and…
— Travel Research Online
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Deck Plans
Viking’s 2022 Oberammergau Itineraries
Viking today an nounced four Oberammergau itineraries for 2022 – all of which offer the rare chance to see The Passion Play. Oberammergau is best known for its once-per-decade production of The Passion Play depicting the suffering, death and resurrection of Christ, and has been performed by local citizens once every decade since 1634.
— Travel Research Online
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Outposts
Countries Open to US and Canadian Citizens
by Richard Earls
Thursday October 15, 2020
Eager to get ou t of town? There are now more opportunities to travel internationally than you may realize. The following is a list of international destinations important to the tourism industry now open to US travelers. Canada, being deemed a medium to low risk country, is allowed visitation to more countries than appear in this article. The list is current as of the date of publication, but many nations are updating their requirements on a continual and very fluid basis and travelers and their travel advisors will do well to monitor for any changes up to the point of departure and during the entirety of the…
— Travel Research Online
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