Inspirato Gets New CEO and Financing, Lays Off 15% of Staff

Low-cost Avelo Airlines continues to expand from its largest base in Connecticut, adding more domestic and international services to connect travelers to popular destinations.

There's a budget airline turf war heating up in Connecticut between the two newest U.S. airlines.

Taste of Iceland 2024, organized by Inspired by Iceland, arrives in New York City Thursday, September 5 through Saturday, September 7. The cultural festival celebrates the land of fire and ice with events showcasing the best of Icelandic culture, including food and beverage, music, literature, art and design, nature, wellness, and more.

Massive expansion plans have been announced for Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World.

Halloween is steadily approaching, and Celtic Tours is announcing the last few seats available on our trending Halloween Spooktacular tour. Every year we bring guests to Ireland and Derry, Ireland specifically, to enjoy the largest Halloween celebration in the world! Travelers dress up, experience the thrills, and gather at the numerous celebrations to learn where Halloween first started. The tour runs from October 28, 2024, through November 3, 2024.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Friday, August 9, 2024, and now here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

As the flurry of summer activity gives way to fall, Coastal Mississippi’s 62 miles of shoreline transforms into a haven of autumnal wonder with a rich array of offerings along the picturesque shores – from leisurely beach strolls to new boutique stays and recently opened elegant dining options – there’s so much more to explore.

Liberty Tripadvisor Holdings is looking to do a deal, one that could remove what Tripadvisor chairman Greg Maffei characterized as “probably a cloud on Tripadvisor’s stock.”

Expedia Group is “pausing” the rollout of its new One Key loyalty program beyond the U.S. and the UK in part because of the adverse impact on its Hotels.com brand.

Like others in the travel industry, Expedia Group saw a “challenging” global economy and “softening” travel demand in July.

The white sand beaches and turquoise waters of the Dominican Republic are just under a 4-hour flight away from New York City. In good news for those looking to book a quick getaway, flights between the US and the Caribbean nation could soon get cheaper—all thanks to a federal aviation policy that few travelers know exists.

Hotels are often agents of change in a neighborhood. That’s certainly true in New York, where buttoned-up Wall Street and the frenetic NoMad district, north of Madison Square Park, are just two of the beneficiaries of the city’s latest hotel boom. More than 40 properties have opened across the five boroughs since 2022, during apost-Covid rebirth that’sbrought freshenergy to long-overlooked pockets of Manhattan as well as to its most well-trodden quarters. Among these new arrivals are the Hotel Chelsea, a long-awaited revival of the venerable art-crowd hangout, and Nine Orchard, an elegant makeover of a 1912 bank building on the Lower East Side. Then there’s the Aman, the hushed retreat that opened two summers ago in the middle of Midtown. At least two more luxury hotels are planning to welcome guests next month: the Surrey, an Upper East Side landmark entirely remade by the Malta-based Corinthia Hotels group, and the Manner, an upscale sibling of the Standard hotels, in SoHo. Here, a closer look at five other attention-worthy newcomers: