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March 03, 2010Louis Cruises said two passengers died when the Louis Majesty was struck by "abnormal waves" while sailing in the Mediterranean on Wednesday.
March 03, 2010Passengers who felt put out last month when more than a quarter of all U.S. flights were canceled because of winter storms in the Midwest and along the Eastern Seaboard will soon discover that it was only a preview of coming annoyances.
March 03, 2010With higher load factors and fuller planes, airlines are focusing more attention on the number, size and shape of passengers’ carry-on bags, forcing more flyers to check their oversized or extra bags at the gates, and to pay checked-bag fees for the inconvenience.
March 15, 2010So I'm sitting at home last night, watching this chef deconstruct a chicken pot pie on the Food Network, while balancing my 4-year-old on my lap and going through some files from work. By the time I got up, I knew what I wanted to talk about this week.
March 12, 2010Travel Guard has persuaded Australian travel insurance company iTrek to discontinue a promotion called "The Travel Agent Is Dead."
March 11, 2010Several of Carnival Cruise Lines' booking functions for agents can now be done online only. The policy began March 1.
March 04, 2010Jamaica’s government plans to hand over operations of national carrier Air Jamaica to Caribbean Airlines on April 12.
March 02, 2010Fans of ocean liners fighting to preserve these relics of the golden age of passenger vessels are learning that the cost of their preservation can seem insurmountable, and the hurdles are many.
March 05, 2010Tour operators are seeing customers book more international trips for 2010, indicating that U.S. travelers are starting to invest more in their vacations again and are feeling secure enough in their jobs to leave the office for longer.
March 10, 2010Hotel industry veteran Andrew Kwasniewski, president of Morgans Hotel Group Las Vegas and COO of Hard Rock Hotel Inc., was found dead in his Las Vegas home.
March 04, 2010Passengers on Royal Caribbean International’s Vision of the Seas were not allowed to disembark in Buzios, Brazil, due to an outbreak of a gastrointestinal illness onboard.
3/8/2010More than 150 guests at the Radisson Paraiso Hotel in Mexico City were locked out of the hotel for two nights last week — some without essential medications — by striking union employees.
March 05, 2010Citing an unprecedented increase in booking volume this year, Norwegian Cruise Line will raise cruise prices 7% on April 2.
March 08, 2010Allegiant Air has agreed to acquire six Boeing 757s for the express purpose of serving Hawaii.
March 04, 2010Carnival Cruise Lines will allow travel agents to use its branded trademarks on social media forums like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace as well as on blogs.
March 09, 2010Costa Cruises will downsize its U.S. sales and marketing team from 120 to 40 employees over the next three months, and will target a smaller group of travel agents to sell cruises.
March 04, 2010ASTA’s annual Agency Profile shows that the typical ASTA travel agency is still small and still struggling with the effects of the recession — only a third realized a profit last year, down from 53% as recently as 2007.
March 12, 2010ASTA said on Friday that CEO William Maloney has resigned and departed the organization. Maloney had served as ASTA’s CEO since 1999.
March 05, 2010JetBlue is asking the Transportation Department for an exemption from new rules on tarmac delay limits at New York's Kennedy Airport while its biggest runway is closed for repairs.
March 09, 2010Hotel designers and developers are looking to the hotel bathroom as the new frontier of the guestroom, seeking to turn what has long been a mostly functional space into an 'oasis,' a 'mini-spa,' even an 'escape.'
March 08, 2010One of the more stressful things about travel -- after flying, of course -- can often be insecurity about tipping. The confusion surrounding this subject was underscored last year when a Yahoo blog titled "Confessions of a Housekeeper" sparked a discussion about whether and how much to tip a hotel maid. I was surprised to see that tipping the housekeeper was not as standard as I had assumed. And the opinions on whether or not to tip every day and how much varied widely.
March 11, 2010At its annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday, Walt Disney Co. introduced a $700 annual pass, good for admission to all parks at the Disneyland and Disney World resorts.
March 16, 2010Calling Alaska’s cruise regulatory environment the "most burdensome and costly" in the world, Holland America Line’s CEO issued a strong condemnation of those policies in front of the state’s governor on Tuesday.
March 14, 2010Groups pushing legislation to exempt online travel companies from hotel occupancy taxes have launched a preemptive strike — sending an open letter to hoteliers seeking talks on the matter. Meanwhile, the American Hotel & Lodging Association prepared for a day of lobbying against their proposal.
March 08, 2010The tourism industry along much of South America's west coast was regrouping last week in the wake of two devastating natural disasters: the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked Chile last month hard on the heels of massive flooding in Peru that resulted in a two-month closing of Machu Picchu.