North America

Two recent airline antitrust-immunity decisions by the Department of Transportation (DOT), coupled with the continued delay in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) decision on the proposed Alaska A…

Brand USA last month hosted its first familiarization trip for Chinese tour operators, bringing in a group of 50.In the past five years, the destination-marketing organization has invested substantial…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Police had already increased patrols in New Orleans’ bustling French Quarter before gunfire erupted early Sunday, leaving one man dead and nine other people wounded in a…

TravelNevada (Nevada Division of Tourism) has launched its new Fall/Winter integrated marketing campaign, which continues its successful outreach to millennial and adventure travellers.The new campaig…

Central and northerly portions of Miami Beach are no longer part of the active Zika transmission zone, Florida Gov. Rick Scott said.The Florida Department of Health made that decision because it had n…

Hundreds of Chicago O’Hare workers — including baggage handlers, wheelchair attendants, janitors and cabin cleaners — will strike on Nov. 29, part of the nationwide “Fight for …

Capella Hotel Group will operate a luxury tent retreat in Bali, Indonesia, that is scheduled to open next month.The Capella Ubud is located on the banks of the Wos River and adjacent to rice paddies.T…

LAKE LURE, N.C. (AP) — Don Cason had his 125-year-old inn in the western North Carolina mountains booked solid for Veterans Day weekend, rooms full and restaurant reservations lined up.Guests ca…

LOS ANGELES — Airbnb has a message for the politicians who are warring with the company: You’ll come around.Chris Lehane, the company’s head of global policy and public affairs, said…

A Denver-based startup partnering with Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has unveiled what it says will be a supersonic passenger jetliner.“Sixty years after the dawn of the jet age, we&rs…