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Monday December 28, 2020

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Destinations

Kayak Has Revealed The Cheapest Destinations In The US For Spring 2021
With fingers crossed that travel slowly becomes normal again within the upcoming year, these locations are being eyed as the cheapest for Spring…

Mexico City Is Turning 500 in 2021 — Here’s Why You Should Plan a Visit
Significant milestones are aligning this year in Mexico City, a destination known for hiking ancient pyramids, tasting mezcal in hip neighborhood bars, and…

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Tours and Activities

Detourism — can the past year’s lessons help us become better tourists in 2021?
Even before the pandemic there were signs that change was needed in the travel industry. With 2020 basically putting a halt to all but essential travel, and hotels, monuments, airlines, museums and restaurants trying to reinvent…

7 Fantastic Wine Tours To Experience In France
France is home to some of the world’s best wines, and its vast wine regions produce between seven to eight billion bottles a year, accounting for close to 30 percent of the world’s wine…

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Cruise

Disney Cruise Line reveals first look at interior for new ship Disney Wish
For Disney cruise fans, one of their wishes just came true. Disney recently revealed a new look at one of its upcoming cruise ships, the Disney Wish. While the boat isn’t scheduled to set sail until 2022, the company did show off some details on the ship’s interior…

Royal Caribbean’s Response to COVID-19: Fast and Thorough
The Quantum of the Seas returned to cruising on Dec. 3 with four-day itineraries from Singapore's Marina Bay terminal to nowhere, with no port calls, for Singapore residents only. The ship, which can normally carry 4,100 passengers, is capped at 50 percent…

Mexico adds new tourist tax to Cozumel
One state in Mexico has announced it will increase its tourist tax, which may have an impact on cruise ship guests. The Mexican state of Quintana Roo, which is where the popular ports of Couzmel and Costa Maya are located, announced…

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Transportation

Simple Flying's Six Most Awaited Routes From US Carriers In 2021
While 2020 was supposed to be a big year for new route launches, 2021 is now looking like a better year for new long-haul routes. Multiple US airlines have announced plenty of new services, and these are the ones Simple Flying is waiting for the…

Alaska Airlines offering BOGO tickets to Costa Rica
Alaska Airlines is making it easier to visit Costa Rica with a friend or loved one. The Seattle-based airline is offering buy one, get one (BOGO) tickets on flights to Costa Rica, Mexico and Hawaii. “Buy one ticket for spring travel and bring a friend for just the taxes and fees,” the airline promotion reads. “Plus, no change fees,…

US Airlines Now Requiring Negative COVID Tests For UK Passengers
US carriers Delta Air Lines and United Airlines will now require all passengers from the UK to have proof of a negative COVID-19 test result in order to fly. The decision follows the discovery of a new strain of the virus in Britain which is believed to be more…

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Lodging

This Travel Subscription Service Gets You Unlimited Access to Some of the World's Best Hotels
As more travelers embrace escapes that offer built-in social distancing, private vacation rentals are in high demand. Searches for “vacation rentals” surged more than sevenfold between March and their peak in June, according to Google…

14 New Hotels We Can’t Wait to Visit in 2021
There’s a lot to look forward to in 2021…if even just the fact that it’s not 2020. But the chance for new adventures, new experiences, and new perspectives offers hope that the year will be a good one…and if the new hotels that are opening in…

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Other and Odd

10 ways to satisfy your wanderlust at home
We've gotten pretty good at social distancing and staying at home, but travel is still calling. To satisfy our wanderlust and stay safe, here are 10 ways we've learned to get our travel fix from our…

Will you need a vaccine passport to fly? How the vaccine will restart travel
After nine months of social distancing, mask-wearing, nasal swabs and quarantining, it seems like hope is finally on the horizon. Yes, there is a long, dark winter ahead with a record number of new cases and deaths…

Today in History

World's First Commercial Movie Screened
On the 28th of December in 1895, history was made at a the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris. Two French brothers, Louis and Auguste Lumiere, had just developed a projector camera they dubbed the "Cinematographe". The screening in December featured ten short films they cranked through the projector, including their first film Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon…

Editorial Musings

Some holiday thoughts about our travel business
by John Frenaye
Monday December 14, 2020

It’s that time again!  Each year, I take a bit of a break for the final weeks of the year to push a virtual “reset” button.  And boy do we need a reset for 2020. Normally, I’d suggest that no one is thinking about travel leading into the holidays and business is slow until Wave Season. Normally, I’d suggest that you take advantage of the slow time to spend time with your family and rest up for a robust year. But…you are probably tired of your family at this point. And the start of 2021 does not look terribly robust. Right?

OK, snap out of it.  We’re still standing. And this is what we do best. We have been written off more times than I can…

  — Travel Research Online
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Publishers Corner

A Failure to Advise
by Richard Earls
Sunday December 20, 2020

On occasion a neighbor or an acquaintance, knowing I am somehow connected to the travel industry, will ask me about a vacation they would like to take. I use those opportunities to refer the person to a rotating selection of travel professionals I know. I tend to use different travel advisors depending on the person’s request. About a month ago, a neighbor asked me about a trip to Scotland she and her family wanted to take next year. We had the obligatory discussion of Covid-19 issues, refunds and cancellations. I checked with a travel agent friend to see if he wanted the referral and I then put the two of them together.

Yesterday, weeks after our original conversation, I ran into my neighbor and asked how…

  — Travel Research Online
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Mike’s 1-Minute Marketing Memos

Make Your Move

Today is the perfect day to wish everybody who reads my column regularly a very Merry Christmas, along with sincere wishes for a fun and productive…

  — Travel Research Online
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