Note from agency owner Stacey Rishel:
I usually monitor travel industry news on a daily basis. The stories included below are not necessarily the latest or most important, but they are items from the past couple of weeks I found interesting, helpful, or just plain entertaining. For more news and commentary, join me on my new blog, Latitude 21. Also, if you use the Flipboard app, you can follow one or more of my news magazines HERE.
Hawaii
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Mexico & the Caribbean
What Today's Exchange Rate Means for Mexico Travel
April 04, 2016 - by Mark Chestnut, TravelAge West The U.S. dollar has been especially strong in recent months. It also buys more Mexican pesos than in the past. But does that mean that now is the perfect time to travel to Mexico? full story Unfinished Baha Mar resort, amid stalemate, put up for sale March 31 - by Danny King, Travel Weekly The unfinished Baha Mar resort complex has officially been put on the block after the financial interests involved were unable to reach an agreement that would have resulted in the completion of the $3.5 billion Bahamas project. full story |
Air Travel, Cruises and Other News
Travel Rewards Programs You May Not Know About - but Should
March 29 - by Stephanie Rosenbloom, New York Times Practically every major airline and hotel loyalty program has recently changed or is on the road to being upended, be it the new American Airlines award chart, which went into effect on March 22, or a potential merger of the Starwood Preferred Guest and Marriott Rewards programs. full story Travel Zen: Avoiding FOMO & Being Happier On The Road by Marek Bron, Indie Traveller blog (www.indietraveller.co) Recently a fellow backpacker told me she hadn’t enjoyed much of her journey because she had been massively affected by FOMO. FOMO? I hadn’t heard of this before. It turned out she was talking about Fear of Missing Out. It’s a recent acronym for a phenomenon that has always existed, but which has become much more common in our hyper-connected age… full post |