FORT LAUDERDALE — Travel agents aboard the Celebrity Edge for a preview cruise of the new $875 million ship said Celebrity Cruises has delivered on the concepts it talked up during an 18-month p…
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Celebrity Cruises launches Celebrity Edge audio tour app
Celebrity Cruises has unveiled a new Celebrity Edge Access Tour app.Narrated by Royal Caribbean Cruises chairman, Richard Fain, and Celebrity Cruises president, Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, the tour uses binaur…
Luxury upgrade: Nashville Yards hotel will be a Grand Hyatt
The hotel in the $1 billion Nashville Yards development will be a luxury property, branded as a Grand Hyatt. The hotel had been slated to be a Hyatt Regency, an upper-upscale brand.The downtown hotel …
Villa Royale opens in Palm Springs, California
Palm Springs has welcomed the opening of boutique hotel Villa Royale, a historic part of the city’s Hollywood Hideaway legacy.Featuring 38 beautifully decorated rooms and villas, the design of w…
Carnival Cruise Line cuts first steel for largest ever ship
Carnival Cruise Line has the first steel for its newest class of ship.At the same time, the American cruise giant revealed the new livery for the as yet unnamed 180,000-ton XL vessel.When it takes to …
Hotels reach out to wildfire victims
Hotels from Los Angeles to Reno are offering discounted and even free nights to people who evacuated their homes due to the deadliest wildfires in California history.Standard’s two Los Angeles h…
Leisure visitors drive boom in Miami tourism
The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau has announced a record-breaking 16 million overnight visitors were welcomed to the destination from September 2017 through August 2018.The figure rep…
Scenic Eclipse debut postponed again
Shipyard issues again delayed the launch of the Scenic Eclipse, Scenic’s first oceangoing cruise ship, this time until April 13, 2019.The Eclipse’s original launch date in August 2018 was …
American Airlines takes another shot at new uniforms
Customer-facing American Airlines employees have begun field testing the carrier’s new uniforms, which were designed by Lands’ End.More than 1,000 American employees donned the uniforms fo…
Though overhyped, blockchain holds promise in travel
Pedro Anderson, founder and COO of the nonprofit travel distribution platform Winding Tree, is something of an evangelist for open-source computer code, calling it “the only way to truly innovat…