The end of summer is officially marked by autumnal essentials: apple cider, pumpkin spice, and for New Yorkers, the launch of a special foliage report.
29.08.2023 - 08:55 / traveldailynews.com / Theodore Koumelis
Biden official’s visit to China opens door to increased bilateral travel.
The summer travel season is projected to end on a high note with strong domestic leisure travel demand. For more than 100 straight days, the TSA has screened more than 2 million passengers each day, underscoring the need to make the U.S. air travel system as seamless as it is secure. The Federal Aviation Administration will need to hire 1,800 air traffic controllers per year over the next three years to meet demand and keep staffing at appropriate levels.
Overseas travel to the U.S. experienced a boost last month, increasing from 73% recovered (compared to 2019 levels) in June to 78% in July. However, growth remains constricted by embarrassingly long visitor visa wait times, which top 400 days in leading source markets that require a visa.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo’s official visit to China this week presents a sizable opportunity to restore the Chinese inbound travel market. China was the third largest overseas inbound market to the U.S. (pre-pandemic) and provided$33 billion in annual travel export income for the U.S. economy – more than any other market. Two key focus areas for the government to increase travel from China:
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The end of summer is officially marked by autumnal essentials: apple cider, pumpkin spice, and for New Yorkers, the launch of a special foliage report.
With a target in sight of earning US$4.1 billion, Minister of Tourism, Hon Edmund Bartlett is quite pleased that Jamaica is having its best year ever in visitors arrivals. His enthusiasm was shared as the tourism sector celebrated the return of the island’s major travel tradeshow post-pandemic, JAPEX, with an elaborate opening event at Chukka Outpost on the Sandy Bay coastline Monday night. “As we currently stand, we are about to have the best year in the history of tourism in Jamaica for stopover arrivals, 2023,” he exuded.
This summer, Aperol Spritz has been flowing from the counters of the most enchanting venues in New York City, from the rooftop of the Independent Art Fair in Tribeca to the flamingo-themed new bakery on my Brooklyn block. In Singapore, you can take an Aperol Spritz bar crawl, and in Paris, it's now a fixture at most cafes next to the local pastis and kir.
There are many places across the US to enjoy beautiful fall colors as leaves burst into reds, oranges, and yellows.
Like many people, Adeena Sussman has had a nonlinear relationship with religion. The American-born Israeli transplant, who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, left behind the traditions of her Orthodox Jewish childhood for a spell—in particular, the observance of Shabbat, or the Jewish day of rest. But she found that without this ritual, she had trouble recharging. “I was exhausted without taking a break from the week—going straight into the weekend without marking it with some form of self-care, relaxation, or withdrawal from all the things I was doing,” she says. Slowly, she started to reincorporate things like lighting candles and cooking meals back into her Fridays, “not because I needed to, but because I wanted to," she says. “Because it puts a barrier between me and the regular week. It was a way for me to accompany myself into a different headspace, a different relaxation space, and even a different style of cooking.”
Even if you have status on every airline under the sun, jet lag is no joke. Whenever I find myself embracing my inner zombie too much, I do two things: hike and hydrate. Both activities instantly wake me up. It doesn’t matter where I am—and as a travel writer, I go through countries like a golden retriever goes through tennis balls—this is my modus operandi. Walk, water, repeat. That said, I don’t carry cumbersome water bottles that leak or constantly need refilling. Whether I’m hiking the Appalachian Trail or exploring Incan ruins in the Andes, the Camelbak M.U.L.E. Hydration Pack is always on my back.
Summers in my hometown of Geneva, Switzerland used to bring sunny spells, but also long, rainy periods during which one wondered whether July had suddenly morphed into November. No longer. Climate change and its resulting heat waves have transformed the aquatic landscape, and more importantly the relationship between people and Lake Geneva (also known as Lake Léman). Along the quays, outdoor bars and cafes have sprung up, and on the water, sail boats, yachts, but also kayaks, canoes, paddleboards, and even floating mattresses lend a new Mediterranean feel to this Alpine scenery.
US and UK saw respective deal volume reducing to almost half; China emerges as notable exception.
Strong travel growth spurred rise in sector investment in 2022; Asia-Pacific and Africa see investment up 161% in 2022 over 2000.
Travel and tourism in the Middle East and Africa region, the focus of another recent region-specific research study by m1nd-set, is experiencing a robust revival, according to the Swiss travel and travel retail research agency.
Europe is a hive of strike action right now, with many employees unhappy that sky-high inflation has not been matched by higher wages.
The world’s biggest airline is ready for Thanksgiving, having already battled through several hurricanes in recent months.