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March 03, 2010Louis Cruises said two passengers died when the Louis Majesty was struck by "abnormal waves" while sailing in the Mediterranean on Wednesday.
March 03, 2010Passengers who felt put out last month when more than a quarter of all U.S. flights were canceled because of winter storms in the Midwest and along the Eastern Seaboard will soon discover that it was only a preview of coming annoyances.
March 02, 2010Fans of ocean liners fighting to preserve these relics of the golden age of passenger vessels are learning that the cost of their preservation can seem insurmountable, and the hurdles are many.
March 03, 2010With higher load factors and fuller planes, airlines are focusing more attention on the number, size and shape of passengers’ carry-on bags, forcing more flyers to check their oversized or extra bags at the gates, and to pay checked-bag fees for the inconvenience.
February 28, 2010Federal prosecutors have asked a federal court for a stay of Starwood Hotels & Resorts’ corporate espionage suit against Hilton and two former Starwood executives, a move that could indicate criminal charges are likely.
March 04, 2010Jamaica’s government plans to hand over operations of national carrier Air Jamaica to Caribbean Airlines on April 12.
March 05, 2010Tour operators are seeing customers book more international trips for 2010, indicating that U.S. travelers are starting to invest more in their vacations again and are feeling secure enough in their jobs to leave the office for longer.
March 02, 2010Yotel's hotel pods are coming to New York City in 2011, when the company plans to open a 663-cabin hotel near Times Square. It will be the brand's largest hotel and its first property outside of an airport location.
February 26, 2010Three crew members on the Costa Europa died when the ship collided with a pier while docking Friday morning in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, Costa Cruises said.
March 01, 2010Northstar Travel Media, parent of Travel Weekly, has acquired five publications from the Nielsen Co.'s Business Media Travel Group. The brands are Business Travel News, Successful Meetings, Meeting News, Incentive and MiMegasite, an online portal serving the meetings industry.
March 04, 2010Passengers on Royal Caribbean International’s Vision of the Seas were not allowed to disembark in Buzios, Brazil, due to an outbreak of a gastrointestinal illness onboard.
March 10, 2010Hotel industry veteran Andrew Kwasniewski, president of Morgans Hotel Group Las Vegas and COO of Hard Rock Hotel Inc., was found dead in his Las Vegas home.
March 11, 2010Several of Carnival Cruise Lines' booking functions for agents can now be done online only. The policy began March 1.
3/8/2010More than 150 guests at the Radisson Paraiso Hotel in Mexico City were locked out of the hotel for two nights last week — some without essential medications — by striking union employees.
February 26, 2010Go Travel South, a vacation packager based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, ceased operations this week.
March 04, 2010Carnival Cruise Lines will allow travel agents to use its branded trademarks on social media forums like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace as well as on blogs.
February 24, 2010In what it says is the latest example of the merging of online and offline worlds, Orbitz has created a booking site for a group long considered one of its fiercest competitors: travel agents.
February 26, 2010The Senate passed the Travel Promotion Act on Thursday night by a vote of 78-18, setting the stage for the development of a federally-funded, tourism-marketing campaign such as this country has never seen before.
March 05, 2010Citing an unprecedented increase in booking volume this year, Norwegian Cruise Line will raise cruise prices 7% on April 2.
March 04, 2010ASTA’s annual Agency Profile shows that the typical ASTA travel agency is still small and still struggling with the effects of the recession — only a third realized a profit last year, down from 53% as recently as 2007.
March 01, 2010Celebrity Cruises is trying to pinpoint the cause of a norovirus outbreak on the Celebrity Mercury's last sailing.
March 09, 2010Costa Cruises will downsize its U.S. sales and marketing team from 120 to 40 employees over the next three months, and will target a smaller group of travel agents to sell cruises.
March 05, 2010JetBlue is asking the Transportation Department for an exemption from new rules on tarmac delay limits at New York's Kennedy Airport while its biggest runway is closed for repairs.
March 08, 2010Allegiant Air has agreed to acquire six Boeing 757s for the express purpose of serving Hawaii.
March 09, 2010Hotel designers and developers are looking to the hotel bathroom as the new frontier of the guestroom, seeking to turn what has long been a mostly functional space into an 'oasis,' a 'mini-spa,' even an 'escape.'