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Destinations
Why This Iconic Cultural Destination Is Surging In Popularity Right Now
With exciting new developments on the tourism front, Egypt is one of the most searched destinations on Google this…
— Travle Off Path
TikTok Is Obsessed With Travel ‘Dupes.’ But It’s Bad Advice
Travel destination dupes are all over TikTok. But what is a travel dupe? And should you follow travel dupe…
— Fodor's Travel
North Korea wants to be a tourist destination
The Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone will offer waterparks, hotels and an airfield once…
— Newsweek
Cruise
MSC Cruises Cancels Seaside’s 2024 Repositioning Cruise -
MSC Cruises recently cancelled the repositioning cruise scheduled to sail onboard the MSC Seaside in April 2024. Set to spend the winter cruising in the Southern Caribbean, the 2017-built vessel was poised to offer a trans-Atlantic…
— Cruise Industry News
Embarkation Changes After Cruise Terminal Roof Collapses
Strong winds caused severe damage to a cruise terminal in Buenos Aires, and guests will need to use a different terminal for several…
— Cruise Hive
Transportation
Exclusive-US scrutinizing airline frequent flyer programs
The U.S. Transportation Department is scrutinizing the frequent flyer programs of major U.S. airlines for potential deceptive or unfair practices, the agency said Thursday as regulators step up oversight of the airline industry. The department has been meeting in recent weeks with passenger airlines to discuss the popular loyalty…
— Yahoo!
Alaska Airlines flight attendants protest at Anchorage airport as strike vote looms
Flight attendants in Anchorage marched Tuesday to demand higher wages from Alaska Airlines. The protest was one of several happening around the country on the same day, in an organized effort to pressure the…
— Alaska Public Media
The year 2023 has seen an upsurge of new airline launches
There was an airline launch frenzy in 2023. This created a pool for the entrepreneurs as well as the customers. With the ensuing demand, the introduction of the flights benefited the passengers as…
— Travel And Tour World
Lodging
The Most Beautiful Hotel Room Views Our Editors Enjoyed in 2023
From Rio to Copenhagen, there are Condé Nast Traveler editors' favorite hotel rooms with a view in…
— Conde Nast Traveler
2023’s Greatest Hotel Openings Around the World
We've rounded up the most exciting, luxurious international hotels that opened this year in…
— Observer
Other and Odd
Airline passenger accused of stealing $23K in cash from fellow travelers during flight
Zhang Xiuqiang, 52, has been charged with stealing $23,000 in cash from bags belonging to three of his fellow passengers aboard a Scoot Airline flight from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to…
— New York Post
13 stranded strangers went on a road trip together. Here’s where they are a year later
In December last year, after their flight from Orlando to Knoxville was unexpectedly canceled, 13 stranded strangers desperate to reach their destination rallied together, rented a van and hit the…
— CNN
What it's like to work for the TSA amid the holiday travel rush
NBC News' Tom Costello goes behind the scenes with TSA agents at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport as some 80,000 people pass through security amid the holiday travel…
— NBC News
Today in History
Pan Am Flight 103
On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded en route from London to New York in Scotland airspace. All 243 passengers and 16 crew members were killed, as well as 11 of the residents of the town of Lockerbie under the explosion.
The attack was believed to be perpetrated as an assault against the United States as 189 of the victims were US citizens.
British intelligence and the FBI determined that two Libyan intelligence agents planted the bomb on the plane, and the country of Libya paid $8 million to each family of the victims and $30 million to Pan Am Airlines 15 years later in 2003.
In December of 2022, the United States took custody of one of the alleged bomb makers, Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud…
— Travel Research Online
The Incessant Traveler
Keith Baron and Perillo, a Match Made in Heaven
by David Cogswell
Thursday December 21, 2023
Keith Baron, fo rmer president of Abercrombie & Kent, joined Perillo Tours as chief operating officer a little over a month ago. Baron will lead the day-to-day operations from the home office in Saddle River, N.J., and report directly to Steve Perillo, the president and owner of Perillo Tours. Baron was in his first month at Perillo when I ran into him and Stephen Perillo at the USTOA conference this month.
Stephen Perillo seemed almost giddy with Baron joining Perillo. “The spiritual part is changed instantly,” he said, “the feeling. And he’s a hit in the office. You’d never know because there are 50 people in the office. You bring in someone new, and you don’t know who’s going…
— Travel Research Online
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