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From French soccer jerseys to slick online campaigns, Dubai is trumpeting the fact that it reopened for tourism on Tuesday — but what that means for this sheikhdom that relies on the dollars, pounds, rupees and yuan spent by travelers remains in question.
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If you didn’t smoke in your room, you shouldn’t have to pay a $250 cleaning fee.
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The cruise industry has long pushed back at the idea that the close quarters on ships may be ripe conditions for the spread of disease. And major players continue to maintain that position, even though there have been more than 3,000 Covid-19 cases and dozens of deaths associated with ships.
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Nearly four months into COVID-19, it's becoming clear how big a hole the pandemic created in the airline experience. And the next three to four months could be just as telling as the last. A new reality for traveling is taking shape.
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As with so much else, the coronavirus pandemic has devastated medical tourism. To allow doctors to focus on emergencies, hospitals have canceled hip replacements and tummy tucks, while flight bans have grounded many foreign visitors.
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The Bahamas will enter Phase 2 of its reopening with new coronavirus guidelines.
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It's a wild West of differing approaches. For instance, Delta, American and Southwest have banned alcoholic drinks on domestic flights to encourage passengers to keep masks on longer. But American still offers them upon request in first class, as does Alaska for premium and first-class passengers on flights longer than 350 miles, while United serves “sealed beverages” but not poured alcohol.
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Based out of Sydney, Australia, the contemporary Christian group Hillsong Young & Free has a new album coming out later this summer. Pastor and youth leader Laura Toggs is one of the members of the Grammy-nominated group.
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Fado is the folk music of Lisbon’s rustic neighborhoods: so accessible to anyone willing to be out late and stroll the back streets. Since the mid 1800s, it’s been the Lisbon blues--mournfully beautiful and haunting ballads about long-gone sailors, broken hearts, and bittersweet romance.
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Many of you will be traveling with kids or arranging for kids to travel fairly soon. Here’s a checklist of arrangements you need to consider.
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With more than 20 million passengers a year, the $45 billion global cruise industry has a particularly vexing challenge: Its most loyal customers, older people, also happen to be the key demographic at risk for the new illness that has swept the planet, killing more than 500,000 people.
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It's hot during the summer, but Florida has plenty of refreshing, cool springs to help beat the heat. Here are 10 to visit during the hot months.
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Amtrak’s decision to forgo its traditional white-tablecloth dining experience on most long-distance routes east of the Mississippi River — and, at least temporarily during the pandemic, on all long-distance routes — has sparked outrage among labor unions and rail passenger groups.
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European Union governments extended a travel ban for U.S. residents, deeming the American response to the coronavirus pandemic insufficient to allow its citizens to enter the bloc for non-essential reasons.
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When Overseas Adventure Travel cancels John Gardner’s cruise to Italy, Croatia and Greece, it offers him a full refund. But then it changes its mind. Can it do that? And does it get to keep his $30,000?
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The emotional need to remain close to friends and relatives does not diminish, and it will push growth in travel and especially in family travel. I suggest that you arrange a visit that maximizes comfort and minimizes stress.
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Few areas of the country rely on tourism more than central Florida, which is home to Disney World, SeaWorld, Universal, Gatorland, Legoland and a plethora of smaller attractions. An estimated 250,000 people work in the leisure and hospitality industries, accounting for 25% of jobs in the area, according to the trade organization Visit Orlando.
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For those contemplating traveling in an increasingly uncertain world, the question of whether travel insurance is worth buying looms large.
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Planning to escape to the great outdoors for a socially distant summer? There are a few apps you may want to download before you go.
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There’s a constant stream of news around reopenings, from workplaces and beaches to hair salons and entire countries. But few plans are as complex as those surrounding the food and beverage industry, one of the harder hit sectors in these months of COVID-19-driven shutdowns.
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Even when individual consumers know their rights, they have few options at their immediate disposal when a customer-service representative — usually the only public-facing proxy for a company’s official or unofficial policies — refuses to relent on refunds.
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Take the family to any one of these adventure towns for fishing, hiking and other outdoor pursuits.
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Disney said Thursday that it would remake one of its most popular theme park rides, Splash Mountain, which depicts characters and songs from “Song of the South,” the racist 1946 musical. The 31-year-old flume ride will instead be modeled on “The Princess and the Frog,” the 2009 musical that introduced Disney’s first black princess, Tiana.
