VisitBritain to Embrace Movie Tourism in 2024

Maui’s western region will be fully reopened to the public on November 1, Maui Mayor Richard Bissen announced on Monday. The reopened will area span Kahana to Ka’anapali. Only burned-out sections of the historic Lahaina will remained closed.

International travel to the U.S. continues to make a post-pandemic recovery, according to new data on international air travelers released Monday by the U.S.’s National Travel and Tourism Office. International air travelers spent $18.9 billion in the U.S. in the second quarter, up 33% from the same period in 2022.

Organised by IFEMA MADRID, the 44th edition of FITUR is set to take place from 24 to 28 January 2024 at Madrid’s trade fair centre. According to FITUR’s director, María Valcarce, the outlook for the next edition is looking bright and everything points to the trade fair expanding to occupy more than 140,000 m2 of space across 9 halls, bringing together more than 9,000 companies and over 150,000 professional visitors from the world tourism industry from 145 countries. It is also estimated that around 100,000 people will visit FITUR over the weekend. Figures that already placed FITUR at the forefront of the major international tourism fairs at the last edition.

Monsters might be fictional characters in books and movies, but these ominous, otherworldly creatures are often linked with real-life places.

Florida is highlighting its nature trails and trail towns in a $5 million marketing campaign.

The staggering impact of climate change and environmental issues means that sustainability can no longer be ignored. It is one of the few global trends set to be ever-present over the coming decades, impacting industries worldwide, and none more so than the global travel and tourism industry. Against this backdrop, tourism stakeholders need to rethink sustainable practices throughout the industry, focusing on how the sector can incorporate new models and insights, to ensure its sustainable future, and advance proposals towards net-zero, nature-positive tourism that benefits local communities.

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Six cities in Europe have been shortlisted by the European commission to be named the 2024 European Capital of Smart Tourism.

I've been visiting Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando with my kids for a decade, so I know how quickly little ones can become exhausted on theme-park days.

There was a travel boom this summer in Europe. Famous destinations and attractions were more crowded than ever with tourists. Destinations, tour operators and communities have been trying to adapt to the tourism surge.

The September 8 earthquake did not halt Morocco’s post-pandemic tourism boom. The country welcomed 960,000 international travelers in September, up 8.5% from the same month in 2019, according to the the Morocco Tourism Office’s latest data. Between January and September, international travel to Morocco rose 44% compared to the same period in 2019.

No doubt about it: New distribution capability (NDC) benefits airlines — for example, by enabling them to display, market and sell the same content regardless of shopping channel, as well as to introduce continuous pricing. However, it also offers multiple advantages for travel advisors — advantages that can be maximized by taking steps to make the transition to NDC easier. “While moving to NDC will require travel advisors to invest in training and, among other things, devote time to adjusting to the (platform and program), the tradeoff will be huge,” states Michael Share, co-founder and co-CEO of Boston-based Blockskye. Share, whose company operates a travel agency for PwC and has partnered with that client and United to explore the application of blockchain in airline offer management, defines this tradeoff as “better technology, better content and better access to what travelers want.”