LOS ANGELES – Viking has announced more 2023 sailings of its Mississippi River cruises. The company’s first custom vessel, Viking Mississippi, will debut in August 2022 and will sail voyages on the lower and upper Mississippi River, between New Orleans…
NEW YORK (AP) - How risky is flying during the coronavirus pandemic? Flying can increase your risk of exposure to infection, but airlines are taking some precautions and you can too. Air travel means spending time in security lines and…
DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines will start booking flights to full capacity next week, ending any effort to promote social distancing on its planes while the United States sets records for new reported cases of the coronavirus. American's move matches…
BATON ROUGE – Louisiana’s move Friday into the next phase of loosening COVID-19-related restrictions will include reopening the state library and highway welcome centers, Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser said Wednesday. Nungesser, who is the state’s top tourism official, also struck…
WASHINGTON D.C. – From the American Hotel & Lodging Association: With new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showing staggering job loss to the hospitality and leisure industry, the American Hotel & Lodging Association today released a “Roadmap…
METAIRIE - From Travel Central: The good news is the travel industry has moved from the cancellations and modifications notifications to pre-opening emails from hotels, cruise, and motor coaches highlighting the enhanced cleaning and safety protocols to ensure that guests…
MIAMI (AP) — Carnival Corp., the world’s largest cruise company, announced on Thursday it will be laying off hundreds of employees due to the coronavirus pandemic. The company’s CEO Arnold Donald said the combination of layoffs, furloughs and pay cuts…
NEW ORLEANS - From iSeatz: Travel rewards have, for years, been the gold standard for loyalty program redemption. However, as realities of COVID-19 set in, airline, hotel, and credit card member programs have had to make quick adjustments to ensure…
NEW ORLEANS – A new report from D.K. Shifflet & Associates says that, in 2019, New Orleans welcomed 19.75 million visitors, which is a 6.7 percent increase in visitors compared to the previous year. Visitors to New Orleans in 2019…
NEW ORLEANS - The federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program is designed to help businesses meet payroll for two months. The $600 weekly boost to Louisiana unemployment benefits will last four months. Meanwhile, hospitality industry experts in New Orleans expect the…
NEW IBERIA, La. - COVID-19. By April 2020, there wasn't a source of media in Iberia Parish and the world that didn't encompass those words in some type of coverage. Lives changed overnight and we’re still not sure how life…
NEW ORLEANS - The city’s tourism boosters have their work cut out for them as they devise marketing plans for the “new normal.” In 2018, New Orleans welcomed 18.51 million visitors who spent $9.1 billion, according to tourism and travel…
NEW ORLEANS - From the River Parishes Tourist Commission: The River Parishes Tourist Commission (RPTC) is celebrating National Travel and Tourism Week, May 3-9, with Streamin' On The River, its first-ever virtual vacation event for citizens and visitors of the…
MIAMI - Carnival Cruise Line announced that it is cancelling all cruises from New Orleans through the end of August. On Aug. 1, meanwhile, Carnival plans to gradually resume service out of Miami; Port Canaveral, Fla.; and Galveston, Tx. The…
METAIRIE - From Travel Central: In light of the uncertainties resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, planning for when — and where — we can safely and freely travel again is also a way of kindling hope. So, we say, take…
NEW ORLEANS - A week ago, there were more than 18,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and more than 700 deaths in Louisiana. Now, there are more than 23,000 cases and more than 1,200 deaths. Despite those numbers, officials at all levels…
LOS ANGELES – Providing a glimpse into a time after the COVID-19 economic lockdown, Viking announced it has opened reservations to the public for its new Mississippi River cruises, which will launch in 2022. The company said its first custom…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy announced today that Louisiana’s major passenger airports will receive a combined $83.8 million through the Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Improvement Program. Cassidy said the money will be used to address operational costs and…
METAIRIE – From Travel Central: Since the US Department of State has issued a Level 4 travel advisory, stating that citizens should avoid travel globally, the advisors at Travel Central are sharing their tips and links for ways to travel…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas joined other states Thursday in imposing quarantines on travelers from the New York area, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., and put similar restrictions on people arriving from nearby New Orleans as…
NEW ORLEANS - There were about 100 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Louisiana on Monday. By Friday morning, there were almost 500 cases and 10 deaths. About 300 of the confirmed cases are located in New Orleans. The numbers…
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. hotel companies are seeking $150 billion in direct aid for their workers for what they say is an unprecedented fall-off in demand because of the new coronavirus. CEOs of Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt and other chains…
NEW YORK (AP) - With each day that the coronavirus outbreak spreads and claims more lives, the damage to global airlines rises too. U.S. carriers on Monday put a price tag on their pain: They asked the federal government for…
NEW YORK (AP) - With the coronavirus pandemic escalating in the U.S. and overseas, Dylcia McBlackwell couldn't justify taking a single spring vacation. Air fares were so cheap, she decided to book three. Now the 39-year-old food service worker from…
NEW ORLEANS - Health officials are urging citizens to avoid crowds in an effort to reduce the "community transfer" of coronavirus. Here's a list of major events in the area that have been cancelled or postponed to help the cause:…
NEW YORK (AP) - The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic: Princess Cruises has announced, due to the new coronavirus, it will voluntarily pause global operations of its 18 cruise ships for 60 days, affecting trips departing March 12 to May…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Taking dramatic action, President Donald Trump sharply restricted passenger travel from 26 European nations to the U.S. and moved to ease the economic cost of a viral pandemic that is roiling global financial markets and disrupting the…
NEW YORK (AP) - The Dow over the past five days: up 1,293, down 786, up 1,173, down 967. The Dow tumbled 800 points at the opening bell Friday. The VIX, an index known as Wall Street's fear barometer, is…
NEW ORLEANS - The daily paper reported that at least two groups who were scheduled to have March conferences in New Orleans have cancelled their events due to uncertainty about the international coronavirus outbreak. The World Petrochemical Conference will not…
MIRAMAR, Fla. - Spirit Airlines announced that it will fly from Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) to Cancun, Mexico (CUN) starting on June 10. The next day, Spirit will inaugurate service from MSY to San Pedro Sula, Honduras…
