As part of their ongoing Paradise Protection Protocols initiative, St. Lucia’s Coconut Bay Beach Resort & Spa and the adjacent couples-only Serenity at Coconut Bay have reintroduced their offer of free travel insurance included with stays of five or more nights. The…
The Royal Uno All Inclusive Resort & Spa is slated to open on Feb. 28 in Cancun. This marks Royal Resorts’ expansion into the all-inclusive market. The resort will include 540 rooms and suites, all with an open design, private ocean-view terrace…
Travelport will use a recently announced partnership with Amazon Web Services as a lever for its latest accelerator program for startups. The agreement with AWS to handle its cloud hosting was announced in June this year. Travelport Accelerator is part of a…
NEW YORK (AP) — The remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped historic rain over New York City, with at least nine deaths linked to flooding in the region as basement apartments suddenly filled with water and freeways and boulevards turned into rivers, submerging…
The CDC has recommended that unvaccinated people not travel over Labor Day weekend, a position supported by the U.S. Travel Association. “First and foremost, if you are unvaccinated, we would recommend not traveling,” said CDC director Rochelle Walensky during a White House…
Anguilla has lifted its four-day quarantine requirement for leisure visitors staying at hotels, resorts and licensed villas, regardless of their length of stay. Visitors staying with persons living in Anguilla at a private home or rental accommodation which is not a licensed…
Dubai-based Aleph Hospitality has launched its Innovation Lab to incubate pre-seed stage start-ups that may have solutions to the sector’s problems Haddad is optimistic there are answers to the pressing challenges and that the Innovation lab can help find them. A Dubai-based…
Sultanate has lifted its arrival ban for vaccinated travellers and will reopen its land borders with the UAE from September 1 Pfizer/bioNTech, Oxford-AstraZeneca, Moderna, Sinovac and Sputnik are among the coronavirus vaccines approved by Oman. Oman’s struggling tourism sector, which has taken…
Online travel aggregators such as Cleartrip have reported a 19 percent jump in bookings to the UAE and a 32 percent jump in website traffic following the announcement The UAE is scheduled to witness some of the biggest global trade and sporting…
All-inclusive resorts have been the bread and butter of Mexico’s travel industry for quite some time. So when Marriott International unveiled a plan to expand into the sector in 2019, many believed that it was a venture that was a long-time coming….