Adding to Jumeirah Group’s growing portfolio of hotels, guests can now discover Jumeirah Maldives, an all-villa luxury resort tucked away in the crystalline turquoise waters of the North Malé Atoll, - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Category - hospitality industry
Vaccine tourism: Is it good, bad or indifferent?
Lengthy delay or a general shortage of COVID-19 vaccines in some countries is leading tourists to travel to other destinations. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Sandals All-Inclusive Vacations: For the Whole Family!
Sandals Resorts has become synonymous with the image of a happy couple enjoying a romantic and worry-free vacation where absolutely everything is taken care of because it is truly all-inclusive. But what if you’re a family? At Sandals Beaches, the entire family is welcome! - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
IMEX America: New Corporate Focus event
Corporate meeting planners now have extended opportunities to connect and share experiences during IMEX America this November. Two exclusive events will be held at the show which takes place November 9-11 in Las Vegas. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Uganda Hydro Dams: New Tourism Reach
The Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) has made overtures with the energy sector in a bid to diversify Destination Uganda’s tourism products beyond the dominant wildlife-based tourism through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL) to market the 600MW Karuma Hydro Power Dam and the 183MW Isimba Hydro Power Dams as infrastructure tourism products. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Get a job: Denmark tells migrants to work for welfare benefits
The Danish government says six out of 10 migrant women from Turkey, North Africa and the Middle East are not employed. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
US leisure travelers staying home as COVID-19 cases soar
With COVID-19 cases rising and travel concerns mounting as we enter the fall and winter months, the hotel industry is at a pivotal point. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Tanzanian President: Number one tourist campaigner in Africa
Campaigning to expose Tanzania’s tourism across the world, Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan is touring the northern tourist circuit, guiding the shooting of a documentary film on key and premier attractive sites. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
How to visit Saudi Arabia from UAE, South Africa, Argentina again?
The once closed and mysterious Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is now known to be the most tourism friendly country in the world. The country is taking a front row in world tourism leadership. Today the Saudi Ministry of Interior confirmed it will reopen the Kingdom to its neighbor, the United Arab Emirates, to South Africa, and to Argentina. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Carnival Cruise Glory cancellation of New Orleans departures
FEMA charters Carnival Cruise Line's Carnival Glory to Provide Housing for Hurricane Ida first responders in New Orleans. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
More of Thailand reopens in 3 weeks
Phuket see the stage for Thailand destination reopenings since the onset of COVID-19 using the Sandbox tourism program as its guidepost. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
San José to Reno-Tahoe flights on Southwest Airlines restart
Southwest Airlines temporarily suspended service between San José and Reno in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related travel declines. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Tanzania set for UNWTO Commission for Africa meeting next year
Tanzania is set to host the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Commission for Africa in October next year. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Back to the Bahamas in honor of CHICOS 10th anniversary
Parris Jordan, Chairman of the Caribbean Hotel Investment Conference & Operations Summit (CHICOS), enthusiastically announces that the 10th anniversary edition of CHICOS, scheduled for November 10-12, 2021, will be hosted at the Grand Hyatt in the highly-praised Baha Mar resort complex in Nassau, Bahamas. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Bahrain Exhibition & Convention Center has a new GM
Dr. Debbie Kristiansen appointed General Manager of the new Bahrain International Exhibition & Convention Center, due to open in 2022. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Europe’s summer air travel recovery fails
The countries which fared worst were those which rely more on long haul tourism, such as France and Italy and those which imposed the most onerous and volatile travel restrictions such as the UK, which languished at the bottom of the list, achieving just 14.3% of 2019 levels. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Rum is your Brain Food, Alcohol, and New York Lifestyle
Rum could be placed in a FOOD group, after all – it is made entirely from sugar cane elements; it might even be considered a dessert, because it is sweet. However, it is a spirit and placed among alcoholic beverages with unique advantages that include antibacterial properties, and it has been recommended to treat strep throat. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
This Asian Black Bear loves Omelet, Facebook, and Tourism
At a food stall located at Pha Trom Jai cliff in Khao Yai National Park, a video of an Asian black bear drawn to the aromas of a cooking omelette has gone viral. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Over 2,000 Jamaica tourism workers vaccinated in first 3 days of vaccination drive
Well over 2,000 tourism workers in Jamaica have been vaccinated using one of three vaccines made available to them at a number of strategic blitz sites organized by the new Tourism Vaccination Task Force, in its first three days of major activities. The Task Force, which was established to facilitate the vaccination of all tourism workers island-wide, has organized a series of vaccination blitzes, with the first being held on August 30. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
American Airlines unvaxxed staff who get COVID are on their own
American Airlines' new policy means unvaccinated employees who come down with COVID-19 must use their own sick days for any time that they need to take off from work. This puts an end to the special pandemic leave American had set in place after the coronavirus first came into play – for the unvaxxed, that is. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Dunchurch Park Hotel shuts down overnight: No phones, no website
The Dunchurch Park Hotel in Dunchurch, a large village and civil parish on the southwestern outskirts of Rugby in Warwickshire, England, has cancelled all overnight stays, weddings, and events moving forward. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Turkey tightens COVID restrictions for foreign arrivals
The updates are implemented in a bid to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey, and are set to go into effect on Saturday, August 4. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Painful Thailand lockdowns must stop, businesses cry
The Thailand Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration eased some disease controls on Wednesday, September 1, 2021, of Thailand lockdowns. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Expo 2020 Dubai gets a special delivery from US Open
Outside of New York, the tennis bags will be distributed within some of Emirate’s gateways in the United States. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Hawaii worst state in the US for pet-friendly accommodations
The number of pet-friendly properties available can vary quite dramatically from place to place, making some parts of the country much more accessible to pet owners than others. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Flying drones to hunt down Italian beachgoers who spread COVID-19
When the drone detects a person with a fever, it identifies them and alerts the medical surveillance team, who then arrives at the site for investigation, which can lead to a COVID-19 test. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Sandals Resorts takes the worry out of travel plans in today’s world
Travelers are chomping at the bit, ready to make their vacation plans, despite what is going on in the world right now. Fortunately, Sandals Resorts has a way to make those plans with confidence and without worry about what may or may not happen in the future. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Key European tourism challenges highlighted at Slovenian Forum
It is time to address the shortcomings of tourism industry that have resulted from the expansion in the last 50 years and transform tourism into a much greener, digital and inclusive industry. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Jamaica Tourism Minister meets with Dominican Republic Ambassador to Jamaica
Jamaica Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, (seen right in the photo) greets Dominican Republic Ambassador to Jamaica, Her Excellency Angie Martinez Tejera, during a special meeting at his offices on September 1, 2021. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Tourism Seychelles and Emirates airline embark on marketing partnership
Tourism Seychelles has launched a strategic partnership with Emirates airline, a loyal partner and collaborator, and the first international airline to return to the island at the destination’s reopening in August 2020. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News