The largest U.S. hotel companies’ luxury brands are lagging behind their lower-end siblings this year when it comes to room-demand growth, lending credence to the theory that the U.S. lodging ma…
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IUCN: Challenges and solutions to Ocean Warming
From microorganisms to beluga whales, ocean warming is impacting many species and its effects are cascading through ecosystems, as outlined in a new IUCN report. Here, we look at the resulting challen…
FROSCH acquires All Horizons Travel
FROSCH acquires All Horizons Travel Travel management company, FROSCH, has acquired All Horizons Travel, effective August 1, 2016.All Horizons Travel owners, Roy and Maureen Jones, are extremely pleas…
Caribbean Hospitality Industry Exchange Forum to welcome noted global delegation
The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) will be organising Caribbean Hospitality Industry Exchange Forum (CHIEF) in Puerto Rico from September 30 to October 2, 2016.Among prominent dignitar…
Bahl takes up leadership of Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel has named Akshay Bahl as the new general manager.The Hollywood Roosevelt provides its guests with a hip, and upscale hotel experience, which dates back to 1927.As general…
Etihad Airways enhances travel experience for senior citizens flying from India to USA
Etihad Airways has introduced a first-of-its-kind senior citizens’ package offering enhanced privileges for the over 60s travelling from India to the United States of America.Senior citizens fly…
The big Hawaii Hotel Conspiracy: Tax Evasion?
Tourism is everyone’s business in the Aloha State of Hawaii. It doesn’t make any difference if one works in the travel industry or not. If the travel and tourism industry is sick in Hawaii…
Paisley Park, home of Prince, opens for public tours Oct. 6
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Paisley Park, the private estate and studio complex of the late rock superstar Prince, will open for daily public tours starting Oct. 6, the trust company overseeing his estat…
The bomb shelter farm hidden deep under Lond
London, England -The subterranean world beneath London has many secrets — hidden railways, ghostly abandoned stations, government war rooms.And now there’s a farm.There are no cows or shee…
Wizards of Décor for Cruise Ships
As you peruse the vast number of color choices in the paint store or try to decide whether the watercolor you are obsessed with at the local arts festival will work in your home, consider what the int…