With Christmas just around the corner, the final travel season soon approaches to wrap up this tumultuous year. As many Americans are choosing to avoid travel, those looking for a holiday getaway are focused on staying within the borders. The 2020 thanksgiving holiday travel period, spanning November 20 – 29, saw a total travel volume …

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has recently released a press release calling for the instant reinstatement of international travel without the requirement of vaccinations.  WTTC, the global representative of the Travel and Tourism private sector, has allied with key industry players, Airports Council International (ACI), World Economic Forum (WEF), and International Chamber of Commerce …

While many analysts are predicting travel levels to make considerable advances next year, recent data indicates travelers are not completely confident in the safety and likelihood of travel in 2021, as almost all travel insurance policies being purchased for the year ahead are including trip cancellation coverage.  With a COVID-19 vaccine on the brink of …

Southwest Airlines has announced 19 new travel routes for the spring and summer of 2021. The expansion will see the addition of two new airports in the Southwest network, and enhanced services for Long Beach and Florida. The airline will also be adding Cancun as a third destination in Mexico, while adding two winter getaways …

In a presumably expected continuation of events, the US has extended their land border closure for non-essential travel with Canada and Mexico for an additional 30 days, which is now set to go through January 21st of the coming year. The restrictions, however, do not apply correspondingly to other forms of travel, such as air …

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently provided guidelines for celebrating the upcoming winter holidays, following the theme of Thanksgiving’s guidelines of avoiding all forms of travel.  The warning, coupled with rising COVID-19 cases, saw the TSA report Tuesday to have the lowest number of travelers at airports since July 4th.  The …

In an effort to revive dwindling sales and weakening travel demand, Delta Airlines is proactively pursuing strategies to alleviate the effects of the pandemic, while awaiting the arrival of a vaccine, to get markets to recover.  In recent weeks, the US airline carrier has announced a new passenger contact tracing initiative, as well as a …