Cheryl Rosen

3 days ago | travelresearchonline.com | Cheryl Rosen

Air traffic communication outages, staffing issues, ground stops and flight cancellations continue to plague Newark Liberty International Airport, as United Airlines cancels flights and travelers head across the Hudson River to JFK instead.

1 week ago | travelresearchonline.com | Cheryl Rosen

If your idea of luxury is a beautiful new resort on a mostly deserted tropical island just a couple of hours from Miami, you can add Salterra Resort and Spa on South Caicos Island to your bucket list. And since it is part of the Marriott Luxury Collection property, you can use Marriott FamTastic rates to check it out for yourself. Let me set the scene for you.

1 week ago | travelresearchonline.com | Cheryl Rosen

If you’re planning to sail Pride of America, hurry up. A new tax in Hawaii will add 11% to its fare beginning January 1. Both houses of the Hawaiian Legislature last week passed the state’s first-ever tax on cruise ship passengers, in a bill that increased the transient accommodations tax for hotels and included ships for the first time. Governor Josh Green has indicated support for the bill in the past and is expected to sign it into law.

2 weeks ago | travelresearchonline.com | Cheryl Rosen

After hosting 500 travel advisors on fam trips in March, TTC Tour Brands has scheduled a repeat performance in November. Four TTC brands—Trafalgar,Insight Vacations, Contiki, and Costsaver—will participate in this second TTC Tour Week, which will host Fams between November 3 and 16.

3 weeks ago | travelresearchonline.com | Cheryl Rosen

It wasn’t only about big ships at the annual Seatrade show in Miami this month. Also on the agenda were lots of new ships rolling out in much smaller dimensions. Even as it made a splash with the 6,000-passenger MSC World America, MSC Cruises said it is on course to add four ships to its luxury lifestyle brand, Explora Journeys. Holding less than 1,000 passengers each, EXPLORA III and EXPLORA IV will double its fleet from two to four ships by 2028.