Tourism

NAPLES, Fla. — The City of Naples has instituted a freeze on beach wedding permits for all of Naples proper.

Fodor’s came out swinging against 2023 Maui vacations today. This comes as the island was deluged with post-pandemic revenge travel starting last year. At one point, the mayor asked airlines to cut back on Maui flights, which he has no authority to enforce and the airlines have no intention of doing.

The shores of Cancun and the surrounding region may be practically sargassum-free at the moment, but that doesn’t mean that sargassum season isn’t approaching.

The world’s first hotels within a Saudi Arabia gigaproject will open in just a few months. Both IHG and Marriott International will open properties along the Red Sea Project – Six Senses Southern Dunes from IHG – and Nujuma, A Ritz-Carlton Reserve and St. Regis The Red Sea from Marriott.

If you were one of the many people who tried to get a last-minute hotel booking near the Kennedy Space Center in August for the historic launch of Artemis 1, NASA’s mission to send humans back to the moon, you were probably disappointed—and perhaps even a bit gobsmacked. Most hotels were sold out for the weekend, with average daily rates up 70% year over year.

2022 was quite a year for travel. As the world adjusted to post Covid-19 travel, and the “new normal” went back to the old normal, travelers were hitting the road and taking to the skies again with great freedom and comfort – but also slimmer wallets, new demands, and plenty of changes in the travel and tourism, including changes with hotels, major shifts in loyalty programs, astronomical airfare and destinations that still feel like ghost towns.

Lanky palms dip over white beaches of powder-fine sand. Decadent villas hover above impossibly warm shallows. All around, sea and air merge into a uniform shade of blue.

Chokoloskee and Everglades City have seen more than their share of hurricane destruction. Hurricane Ian left the towns battered, and unsure of being ready to reopen for the height of tourism season. But if you rode a bike through the two villages today, two months later, it might seem like the storm never even showed up.