What The Travel Corporation Sale Means for Tour Operators

With just hours to go until the Opening Ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympics, chaos has hit the country’s transport network. On the night of Thursday, July 25, a series of fires spread across France’s high-speed rail lines, causing delays, cancelations, and disruptions to the rail system.

American Airlines CEO Robert Isom outlined numerous steps the airline is taking to “course correct” after abandoning a direct distribution strategy it embarked on in 2023.

Barcelona’s tourism board is replacing its 15-year-old slogan ‘Visit Barcelona’ with ‘This is Barcelona.’

Inaugurated in 2018, iGA Istanbul Airport has quickly become one of the world’s busiest, recording more than 76 million passenger arrivals in 2023.

When it came down to it, Google didn’t want to anger its core customers — advertisers — and this week announced it won’t phase out third-party cookies in its Chrome browser as planned.

I'm an independent traveler who likes making my own arrangements. (Or, to rephrase that for the people who know me and will want me to tell you the truth: I'm a travel obsessive with a need to usually control every aspect of a trip.)

The Nordstrom Anniversary Sale is here once more, and that means shoppers can score major discounts across all categories—clothing, shoes, beauty, accessories, home goods, and even luggage. That's right—Nordstrom offers its biggest discounts of the year during the annual sale, with dozens of deals on best-selling luggage, duffel bags, and handbags, making it the perfect time to refresh your collection. Durable luggage and travel bags usually cost a pretty penny, but with this sale, travelers can score major discounts—just make sure to shop by August 4.

ITB Berlin’s new Travel & Tourism Radar, set up in partnership with Ostfalia Hochschule, analyses the business outlook in the travel industry and reveals external factors as the main forces driving digitalisation and sustainability efforts. The actions of global travel companies are driven more by external influences than economics where important aspects of the transition are concerned. The Travel & Tourism Radar survey shows that the approximately 330 travel companies interviewed worldwide offer a generally positive economic outlook. It also gives an insight into their investment plans and how they see their ability to compete.

Lisbon is gearing up for the wine harvest season with recommendations for a series of treats for wine-loving visitors to the city. Located in the heart of a country where wine-making is a tradition, there is no better way to discover the capital city of Lisbon than through its wine and here Visit Lisboa (www.visitlisboa.com/) gives recommendations on how to do just that by following wine routes that takes visitors on a mesmerising journey of knowledge and taste, cultural wisdom and innovation among some of the Portugal’s most beautiful landscapes.

Japan is bracing for a tourism boom like never before. With a record 35 million foreign visitors expected this year and tourism spending projected to hit an unprecedented JPY 8 trillion ($51 billion), the country is seeing a surge driven by a weak yen.

With the 2024 Republican presidential ticket of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance solidified last week in Milwaukee, Democrats have a lot of work to do before their convention in less than a month – now without an official candidate or a vice presidential nominee.

Just days before Apollo Group Management announced a deal to acquire The Travel Corporation, Nick Lim, the group tour company’s Asia CEO, spoke with about the outlook for the business in the region.