Travel Industry Today

A new highlight for visitors to Fort Lauderdale can be found, literally, on the 25th floor of the Dalmar Hotel. The Sparrow rooftop bar is the highest in the south Florida city, having opened in May…

After a six-month closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sloppy Joe’s, the Key West bar that Ernest Hemingway frequented in the 1930s, reopened Thursday. Returning patrons might have thought they…

For years, a large piece of winding driftwood has been stationed on Chesterman Beach. It has become an iconic meeting place for residents, who can tell you exactly where it stands. Carved into it are…

Mexico’s pre-Hispanic ruin sites hadn’t seemed so lonely since they were abandoned centuries ago. But in the past week, ancient sites like Tulum, Cobá and Teotihuacan have at last begun to welcome…

World Travel Market has been forced to cancel its 2020 London event at ExCeL, citing travel restrictions and uncertainty around Covid-19. WTM London Senior Director Simon Press said, “Sadly,…

Amusement park operators who spent months installing hand sanitizing stations, figuring out how to disinfect roller coasters seats and checking the temperatures of guests at their gates so they’d come…

More openings and more delays as COVID’s mixed bag continues; Globus sets date for first its departure since March; and an itravel2000 survey says Canadians are ready to travel again. NEWS No-charge…

With the tourism season cancelled by the pandemic, a fleet of British Columbia small ship operators are making the most of their unexpected down-time by collaborating on an epic project designed to…

Britain’s best pub insists that patrons dump their dirty boots before entering. But it’s not new-found hubris that motivates The Baskerville in Henley-on-Thames – Gold medal winner of Visit England’s…

When will we see cruising return to even a semblance of normal? It’s a baffling question as every week seems to bring hope, but also uncertainty. Take Costa Cruises which resumed sailing in early…

Fewer fellow guests or more wide-open spaces? That’s the question many travellers are pondering in the face of the pandemic when choosing to stay at a mass-market resort or small boutique property.…

Guests returning to Sandals South Coast in Jamaica this fall will have a surprise in store as Sandals Resorts International unveils a multi-million-dollar renovation featuring what the all-inclusive…

A travellers’ quarantine trial has been launched in YYZ; Costa Cruises is sailing again, and Discount Car and Truck rentals has a new owner. NEWS International travellers arriving at Toronto’s…

Until we can once again cruise to exotic lands, we can dream. Here’s a story that was first posted in The Cruisington Times in 2011. Mount Sinai is timeless and many of the scenes on this tour are…

With its international border re-opened to foreign visitors (Aug. 7), Dominica’s travel industry is looking forward to welcoming Canadians again – when they can get there, and when they can get home…

Art Basel Miami the prestigious art fair, known for glamorous parties and celebrity sightings, as much as its fabulous art collections and content, has announced the cancellation of its annual event…

Although travel to New Zealand is on hold, the country’s tourist board is inviting wannabe visitors to virtually journey through the North and South Islands listening to sounds unique to the South…

Swoop comes back to Pearson, Westjet implements a zero-tolerance policy in support of the requirement for all guests, over the age of two, to wear masks and face coverings and Cunard pauses cruises…

Remnants of Hurricane Laura unleashed heavy rain and twisters hundreds of miles inland from a path of death and mangled buildings along the US Gulf Coast, and forecasters warned an eastern turn would…

Saint Arnold Brewing Company is the oldest craft brewery in Texas. But the Houston establishment is also a place where the small crew still takes pride in “brewing, filtering, bottling, selling and…