The latest tourism and destination news for cities, regional, state, and national tourism boards and experts.
Lisa Richwine, Reuters
Visitor numbers to Disney's flagship park in Florida will be one of the most closely eyed statistics of the next year. It's symbolic of the travel sector's fortunes because a visit to the Magic Kingdom typically requires a flight, significant spending, and a comfort with crowds.
15 hours ago
Christian Lowe and Benoit Van Overstraeten, Reuters
The move to reopen France's most famous museum will come in time for Bastille Day celebrations of national freedom. Très bien.
17 hours ago
Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Terje Solsvik, Reuters
Sweden's high rate of coronavirus deaths left it out of a Nordic travel bubble emerging between Denmark and Norway. The exclusion could be a cautionary tale in other joint tourism districts forming via national alliances around the world.
19 hours ago
Houston First Corporation + Skift
Technology plays an important role in helping tourism companies market local attractions and businesses more effectively. As smartphone functionality expands, Visit Houston is proving that augmented reality tools can have a real impact on visitor experience.
3 months ago
Steve Scherer, Reuters
Fall foliage cruises through Canada are essentially a no-go this season due to the latest extension of a large cruise ship ban because of coronavirus.
21 hours ago
Tanishaa Nadkar, Reuters
Tsogo Sun, which owns luxury properties in seven African countries including Nigeria and the Seychelles, is a bellwether for the pandemic's impact on international travel across southern Africa.
22 hours ago
Stella Qiu and Se Young Lee, Reuters
This news dovetails with Friday's Trip.com Group earnings call that said new international inbound reservations to China would probably be close to zero through the end of June because of travel restrictions.
23 hours ago
Ingrid Melander and Belen Carreno, Reuters
Spain's Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya has declined to give a timetable on when popular cities like Barcelona or Madrid will reopen to foreign visitors. But with summer tourism upon us, the travel sector needs clarity pronto.
2 days ago
Rafat Ali, Skift
We have to ask the hardest questions, and answer them, for the sake of hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens dead here in America and around the world — and the billions who are still alive.
2 days ago
Angeliki Koutantou, Reuters
Many countries have put selective travel bans in place, and these bans increasingly appear to be driven more by politics than science.
3 days ago
Helen Coster and Lisa Richwine, Reuters
Walt Disney World in Orlando being reopened will be something of a watershed moment — but the park needs approval from Florida officials first.
3 days ago
Rosie Spinks, Skift
The LGBTQ travel community has historically been very resilient after downturns in travel. There are early indications that the bounce-back after the pandemic may show a similar dynamic.
3 days ago
