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Thursday September 30, 2021

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Destinations

Universal Studios Instates Proof of Vaccination and Mask Mandate
Starting Monday, visitors 12 and above must show vaccination cards or a negative covid-19 test taken within 72 hours of…

Canada Has Reopened to U.S. Travelers—Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Visiting
COVID-19 travel restrictions have been lifted and vaccinated Americans can travel to Canada, here is how to travel to Canada from the U.S. right…

US Is Set to Open to Europeans in November, But Americans Are Still Strongly Advised to Avoid Travelling to 12 EU/Schengen Countries
While the United States administration has yet to reveal more about its plan to reopen for vaccinated internationals from 33 countries in early November, the US Department of States currently strongly advises Americans…

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Tours and Activities

Adventure And Nature Travel Recovering Faster Than Mass Travel: Nine Top Examples
Get outdoors and enjoy the world when you are…

Eat, Kayak, Hike, and Horseback Ride Your Way Through Puerto Rico on These 5 Epic Tours
New ways to get to know Puerto Rico, from food to history, by horseback and…

Valley of Fire State Park: A Day Spent At The Largest And Oldest State Park In Nevada
Nevada's Valley of Fire is truly a spectacular optical illusion, and it's 100% worth…

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Cruise

This new cruise line is already sailing at full capacity after successful debut
Luxury adventure small-ship cruise line Atlas Ocean Voyages is one of the first cruise lines to sail at full capacity after the successful August debut of…

Swan Hellenic Confirms Antarctica Cultural Expedition Cruises
Swan Hellenic has confirmed that its inaugural cruises exploring Antarctica will all be sailing as planned following the Argentinian…

Royal Caribbean to invest in USVI's St. Croix and Crown Bay
Royal Caribbean to develop and invest in US Virgin Islands' St. Croix, Crown Bay St…

The Best Time—and Ships—for Sailing the Greek Islands
With cooler temperatures and fewer crowds, fall sailings in Greece onboard these cruise ship lines are both more comfortable and more…

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Transportation

Millions of travelers rated the 'world's best' airlines. Here's what they chose
This year’s rankings are based on more than 13 million customer survey responses, judging 356 airlines on areas like online booking and check-in processes, friendliness of airline staff, seat comfort and…

United Airlines Set To Terminate Nearly 600 Employees For Refusing To Get Vaccinated
The airline announced on Tuesday that it would start processing the termination of 593 employees, nearly two months after informing workers about the new…

Another new pandemic airline: What travelers need to know about Aha and its $49 flights to Reno/Tahoe
Aha, focusing on flights to and from Reno-Tahoe, is the reincarnation of ExpressJet, which shut down in 2020 after it lost a contract with…

Southwest Airlines Just Revealed a New Disney-themed Plane and Magical Vacation Giveaway
Southwest Airlines just unveiled a commemorative custom-designed plane to mark Walt Disney World's 50th…

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Lodging

The Best Hotels in London For Your Next English Adventure
Searching for the best hotels in London? From Claridge's to the new NoMad London, here are some of our favorite places to stay in the…

15 Romantic Honeymoon Hotels in Savannah, Georgia
Looking for a great hotel, inn, or B&B for your Savannah, Georgia honeymoon? Here are the 15 most romantic…

Disney Adding In-Room Concierge to ALL Resort Hotels
Walt Disney World Resort is adding in-room concierge service to all of its Resort hotels via a partnership with Amazon Alexa. Details…

63% of Greece's Accommodation & Hotels Were Occupied in September, Minister Says
Occupancy in accommodation and hotels in Greece reached 63 per cent from September 12 until September 19, the figures published by the country’s Minister of Tourism, Vassilis Kikilias, have…

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Other and Odd

This Couple Created a Modern Day Greenbook for Seattle
We had dinner with Marlie and Anthony Love, the aggressively adorable couple behind Traveling While Black in…

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupts, lava fountains form in park
One of the most active volcanoes on Earth is erupting on Hawaii's Big…

8 ways that getting jabbed gives you the travel edge
From a bigger list of foreign destinations to more access to attractions, here are eight ways fully vaccinated tourists enjoy the travel…

2 Los Angeles travelers arrested on Kauai for falsified travel documents
Two travelers from Los Angeles were arrested around noon Tuesday for uploading falsified documents into the Hawaii Safe Travels portal in an attempt to avoid the state's travel quarantine…

Today in History

James Dean Dies
Iconic actor James Byron Dean died on this date in 1955 from injuries sustained in a head-on motor vehicle accident. Best know for his role in Rebel Without a Cause, Dean symbolized the rebelliousness of youth for a generation. Although only 24 years…

The Incessant Traveler

Longwoods: The Bad News and the Good
by David Cogswell
Thursday September 30, 2021

Ever true, tried and trusty, Longwoods International continues to monitor the changes in demand for travel with its latest survey, COVID-19 Travel Sentiment Study - Wave 46, published last week. The snapshot, taken a year and a half into a grisly pandemic, indicated that consumers have now settled into a “new normal” in regard to travel.

The study was conducted Sept.15. Longwoods surveyed a national sample randomly drawn from a consumer panel of 1,000 adults, ages 18 and over. The sample was tailored to match Census targets for age, gender, and region to make the survey representative of the US population.

About the best thing you could say about the results is that “it could have been worse.” And it certainly could have been. Just recall how…

  — Travel Research Online
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