When it comes to tours and travel, a new survey through the U.S. Tour Operators Association (USTOA) shows a good, fast ride for those companies who want to get on or stay on the bus. A new survey by PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) found the outlook for the tour industry to be healthy and strong, according […]

The annual Virtuoso Luxe Report is out and some of the highs may surprise. Based on input received from a survey of the world’s top travel advisors, the report provides insight on where, when and how travelers will travel this year– whether on land or afloat – couples, families and adventure-seekers, alike. With the debut […]

If you are wondering what it is about Latin America that keeps visitors coming back for more awe and more wonder, you need only look at a map of Latin America to understand. Shaped like a giant Macaw perched above the mighty Atlantic, Pacific and Caribbean, it is its 12,000 miles of untainted coastline; its […]

Whether or not next Friday represents the end of the world as we know it, tourism officials in Cancun are betting that visitors will want to know even more about the mysterious Mayan civilization in the years ahead. To that end, Cancun Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) opened the $15 million Maya Museum on Nov. […]

While the Global Entry Program operated over the past four years by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) allows U.S. air passengers to sail through immigration lines when they touch down from international distances at specified U.S. gateways, another program that recently launched allows air passengers to fly through those snaking TSA security lines en […]

Space travel is close at hand in a little-known expanse outside Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. That’s where Spaceport America is digging in to host flights that shoot up past the earth’s atmosphere to that “just beyond” frontier where no tourist has gone before. But all that is destined to change in 2014 when Virgin […]

Quirky Las Cruces, New Mexico is preparing for a veritable deluge of space tourists who will make the small city of about 100,000 people their hub when the futuristic, Disney-built visitors center opens at Spaceport America next year. What those visitors will find is a quaint, agricultural town with a fabulous weekend Farmers Market creating […]

Top U.S. cities may see quiet times for Christmas and the New Year as their residents get on the road to be with family or just “be” in some place that is not home or office. A recent study by Harris Interactive for Inspirato, which polled more than 2,500 adults in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Fort […]

When Giorgio Armani starts the day he likes to wake up to a house clear of clutter – no objects, no gifts, no items out of place – a clean shimmering canvas of possibility upon which any thing can happen. At his “casa della casa” in Milan – the new Armani Hotel Milano that opened […]