Theme parks hope the thrill is not gone
Carefree days giving way to virus safeguards
DATE: Jun 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel
As business trickles back, hotels compete on cleanliness
Marriott, Hilton and other big hotel companies are used to competing on price or perks. Now they are competing on cleanliness.
From masked clerks at the front desk to shuttered bu...
DATE: Jun 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel
Tourist rescued after being trapped 6 days in well in Bali
DENPASAR, Indonesia – A Ukrainian man who fell into an abandoned well and broke his leg while being chased by a wild dog on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali was rescued after being trapped...
DATE: Jun 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel
French Quarter sans tourists: ‘An old neighborhood again’
NEW ORLEANS – For Jack Greenwood, New Orleans’ COVID-19 lockdowns brought sadness, but also a revelation: He was making more acquaintances with fellow residents – people he might not have no...
DATE: Jun 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel
National parks hope visitors comply with virus measures
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – A man pets a wild bison on the head. Rescuers pull a treasure-seeker from a snowy canyon. A woman taking photos stumbles into scalding water.
Visitors to Yellowst...
DATE: May 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel
What happens to your loyalty program after the pandemic?
Sheree Davis was one of hundreds of thousands of air travelers eager to know how loyalty programs would treat them after the pandemic.
So she was excited when American Airlines r...
DATE: May 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel
Boeing slashes 12,000 jobs as virus seizes travel industry
Boeing is cutting more than 12,000 jobs through layoffs and buyouts as the coronavirus pandemic seizes the travel industry. And the aircraft maker says more cuts are coming.
One o...
DATE: May 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel
People are wearing hazmat suits on planes, but should they?
Last year, supermodel Naomi Campbell made headlines when she shared a video of herself very thoroughly sanitizing her Qatar Airlines seat. There were disinfecting wipes involved, plastic glo...
DATE: May 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel
Virus lockdown gives Venice a shot at reimagining tourism
VENICE, Italy – In Venice, a city famous for being visited by too many and home to too few, children’s play now fills neighborhood squares, fishermen sell their catch to home cooks and water...
DATE: May 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel
Disinfected dice: Las Vegas casinos getting ready to roll
LAS VEGAS – Free parking, but no valet service. Bartenders, blackjack dealers and waiters wearing masks. Hand sanitizer everywhere.
Yes, dice will roll, cards will be dealt and sl...
DATE: May 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel
Photos: Grand but empty, Italian hotels await tourists
ROME – Like lonely grande dames, Italy’s luxury hotels lack company amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Associated Press photographers have captured the atmosphere inside prestigious e...
DATE: May 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel
Pandemic upends life on isolated, idyllic Galapagos Islands
SAN CRISTOBAL, Ecuador – Before the coronavirus, sudden life-threatening ailments among tourists, fishermen and others on the Galapagos Islands were considered so rare that hospitals didn’t ...
DATE: May 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel
