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Destinations
7 Under-the-radar Beach Towns in Mexico — Including One With Thousands of Flamingos
These Mexico beach towns have all of the beauty and none of the crowds or high price…
— Travel+Leisure
Tourist taxes: All of the cities and countries you will have to pay to enter in 2024
From Venice to Bali, new fees are being charged to try and combat…
— EuroNews
These were some of 2023’s worst destinations for overtourism. Here’s how to avoid the crowds next year
A post-pandemic travel surge has inundated destinations with visitors at the height of summer. Here's what you need to know enjoy crowd-free vacations in…
— CNN
Tours and Activities
8 of the best things to do in Queensland
Looking for things to do in Queensland? It has heaps to offer travellers, from its famous Great Barrier Reef to the buzzing city of Brisbane and wonderful…
— Telegraph (London)
Cruise
NCL Removes Upcharge for American Diner
Lovers of milkshakes and mozzarella sticks rejoice: Norwegian Cruise Line has removed the upcharge for its comfort-food-filled specialty restaurant, American Diner, at lunch and…
— Travel Research Online
Carnival Cruise Line shares a warning for passengers
Booking a cruise works differently than booking a traditional vacation. While buy-now-pay-later enables passengers to space out payments for all sorts of travel, cruises have always offered that option. Generally, to book a cruise, you put down a deposit and then can either pay over time or make a lump-sum payment to close out your…
— The Street
Passengers on nine-month world cruise share videos of flooding weeks into journey
The cruise left for its nine-month trip in December 2023…
— The Independent
Transportation
There is now a new low-cost airline flight to Greece
Over the last five years, there has been an explosion of low-cost airlines promising to fly travelers to places formerly only served by mainstream…
— The Street
DOT Sec. Pete Buttigieg tells TPG why air travel worked better in 2023
U.S. flight cancellations fell to their lowest rate in at least a decade, the Department of Transportation said. In an interview with TPG, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg explained…
— The Points Guy
How airline passengers managed to survive fiery runway collision in Japan
A fiery runway collision at a Tokyo airport stunned the world Tuesday with dramatic imagery. All of the airline passengers survived, but five crew members on a Coast Guard plane involved in the accident were…
— PBS
Lodging
Paris hotels triple prices for Olympics opening night, study shows
Paris hotels are tripling their prices to more than 1,000 euros ($1,092) on average for the opening night of the 2024 Olympic games, according to a consumer organisation…
— Reuters
The sexiest new hotels for 2024
From LA to Bangkok, Madagascar to Transylvania, here are 24 of the best-looking new hotel openings for…
— CNN
Europe's most anticipated hotel openings in 2024
London continues to take the lead with the latest debut from the Maybourne Hotel Group, owner of Claridge's. Elsewhere in Europe, Rosewood opened a hotel in Munich and the branch will soon be heading to…
— Fortune
Other and Odd
8 Trip-Planning Tips for Blind or Visually Impaired Travelers
If you or someone you know is visually impaired, use these travel tips, tour operator recs, and resource suggestions for blind and visually impaired…
— AFAR
Are we seeing the slow decline of the travel selfie?
With tourists around the world behaving badly in their quest to get the perfect Insta shot, some destinations and tour operators are working to get visitors to go beyond the…
— BBC
Today in History
The First Female Governor
On this day in 1925, Wyoming seated Nellie Tayloe Ross as the governor of the state, making Ross the first woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state. She was elected in a special election following the death of William Ross, her husband and the Governor she succeeded. She lost in the general elections in 1926, but remained active in politics.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Ross as the Director of the U.S. Mint in 1933, and she became the first woman to serve in that capacity. She retired in 1953 after serving 5 terms as Director of the Mint. She died in 1977 at the age of…
— Travel Research Online
The Rosen Report
On the Road Again: Travel Advisors Take to the Highways and the High Seas in 2024
by Cheryl Rosen
Friday January 05, 2024
It looks like t he happiest of new years is headed our way in 2024—but despite the ringing phones and constant emails (or maybe because of them!) travel advisors seem determined this year to have a little fun, to set sail for far-flung destinations, or to take their parents and kids to somewhere they have never been.
After two good years, it seems, the travel industry is ready to travel.
Lisa Cool, for example, is headed for Kenya and Tanzania. Teri Hurley is going to Lapland and Kenya. Brenda Vavricek is doing two bucket-list trips: Antarctica and the Galapagos Islands. Gail Woloz is traveling with her…
— Travel Research Online
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