Travel recovery tips

This summer’s travel boom is showing no signs of slowing down during the Labor Day weekend, especially for the growing number of Americans looking to vacation overseas.

The number of foreign tourists visiting Portugal surpassed eight million in January-June, making it the best first half on record, official data showed on Monday.

The Japanese government announced on Friday it’s planning to resume its domestic travel discount program in the new year.

Cathay Pacific announced on Wednesday that CEO Augustus Tan would be stepping down on December 31 andchief customer and commercial officer,Ronald Lam would succeed him.

A full recovery in airline passenger volumes in Europe has been pushed back to 2025 from 2024, the body representing European airports said on Tuesday, revising the industry’s optimistic tone about its post-Covid recovery.

Airfares on key corporate travel routes are expected to rise by as much as 25 percent in 2023 amid high fuel prices, a stronger U.S. dollar and labour and aircraft shortages, a forecast from American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) showed.

Hawaiian Airlines reported a net loss of $240 million for all of 2022 on Tuesday, largely attributed to a slower than previously expected return of Japanese travelers and competition for inter-island service between the eight major Hawaiian islands.

Japan’s service-sector sentiment rebounded in February for the first time in four months, a government survey showed on Wednesday, a sign that the removal of COVID-19 curbs is giving a much-needed boost to the country’s sluggish consumption.

Global airline capacity will be lower than expected this year and stay constrained until 2025 at the earliest, warned IATA director general Willie Walsh, due to delays in new aircraft deliveries and a lack of availability of spare parts.

Laurence Tosi, founder and managing partner of investment firm WestCap, views the short-term rental industry as a major winner coming out of the pandemic. But he thinks the boom experienced in recent years is winding down.

In April, international travelers who came to the U.S. spent more than Americans who traveled abroad for the first time in seven months, according to the National Travel and Tourism Office’s latest data.

A snapshot of 15 major U.S. hotel markets shows that travel to cities is rebounding, with one notable exception: San Francisco.

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Brand USA is hosting its first sales mission in Japan since the country opened to travel in October. The mission this month comes as Japan — a top U.S. tourist market — has been slow to rebound to its 2019 level.

More than 5.2 million international visitors came to the U.S. in March, representing 83% of its pre-pandemic level and up 62% from March 2022, according to the National Travel and Tourism Office’s latest data. International visitor volume also exceeded 80% of its pre-pandemic level in February.

Chinese group tours are back in Japan but anyone banking on them arriving in droves and splashing around cash like they did before the pandemic is likely to be disappointed.

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After being homebound for much of the last several years, the American public is now quenching its pent-up thirst for travel by taking to the roads and skies in near record numbers. Total travel spending improved to 0.9% above June 2022 levels and was up 4.7% year-to-date through June 2023 according to the U.S. Travel Association. Heading into the busy summer travel season this past June, air traveldemand increased over 11% compared to the same month last year.