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Belize just got a lot easier to sell out of South Florida. BermudAir started flying nonstop from Fort Lauderdale to Belize City on Monday, a seasonal run operating Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays through May 3, 2027. The carrier, which built its reputation on premium leisure service to Bermuda, is also adding Providenciales in the Turks […]

New York City and Cancun are the most popular domestic and international destinations for Thanksgiving travel this year, according to Allianz Partners’ latest Top Thanksgiving Destinations report. The travel insurance provider based the rankings on just over 145,000 roundtrip itineraries from U.S. airports, with departures between November 21 and 26 and returns between November 27 […]

Alaska Airlines is taking its hometown hub international. The carrier will fly nonstop between Anchorage and Tokyo Narita beginning May 13, 2027, giving advisors a first-of-its-kind link between the 49th state and Japan on a U.S. carrier. The seasonal route runs daily through Sept. 7 before dropping to three weekly frequencies in January 2028. Westbound […]

Hyatt and Extell Development Company are planning a roughly 1,800-room StandardX hotel at 255 West 45th Street in Manhattan’s Theater District, the first North American outpost for the pared-down sibling of The Standard. The hotel is slated to open in the second half of 2028. The property will anchor an Extell tower that reads less […]

ITA Airways has signed an agreement with Archer Aviation to develop an electric air taxi network in Italy, a move that could eventually give travelers a way to fly over the traffic between the country’s airports and city centers. The service would use Archer’s Midnight, an all-electric aircraft built for short, back-to-back hops of 10 […]

Travel advisors hoping to add ASTA’s Verified Travel Advisor credential before the calendar flips now have a compressed path to get there. The American Society of Travel Advisors is launching a VTA Virtual Intensive December 7–11, 2026, condensing what has long been a self-paced program into roughly five hours of live online instruction spread across […]

Travelers are putting more money on the line this year, and they’re buying coverage to match. Trips insured for $30,000 or more rose 27.2% year over year in the third quarter, according to Squaremouth’s Q3 2026 Travel Insurance Trends Report, outpacing the 12.9% growth in insured trips across the board.  The low end of the […]

Porter Airlines has kicked off its winter sun expansion out of Toronto Pearson with the launch of service to Aruba, the first of five new southern destinations the carrier is rolling out between now and early December. Next up are Providenciales, Turks and Caicos (Nov. 6); Los Cabos, Mexico (Nov. 16); and Montego Bay, Jamaica […]

Cancun and New York City are once again the twin poles of American winter travel, according to early data from Tripadvisor’s Winter Travel Index, which ranks the destinations U.S. travelers are searching most for trips between November and February. New York holds the No. 1 domestic spot on the strength of its holiday calendar, with […]

Ahead of Veterans Day, Nexion Travel Group has fresh numbers on its effort to turn military experience into travel careers. Advisors who joined the host agency through its Veterans in Travel program have booked more than $4 million so far in 2026, already beating what the group sold in all of 2025. Four of those […]