President Donald Trump’s ban on nationals from seven mainly Muslim countries entering the US appears to be deterring travelers from other countries around the world too, according to data from ForwardKeys. The travel intelligence analyst monitors travel patterns by analyzing 16 million flight reservation transactions a day. The findings show that after President Trump’s initial […]
The five-month growth streak of increases in international visitor arrivals to the United States was broken in February, when 4.9 million international visitors were recorded, down by -0.3% from February 2015, according to the US Department of Commerce This follows the moderated growth reported in January. For the first two months of 2016, international visits (10.4 million) […]
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) global passenger traffic results for May show strong demand growth compared to May 2014 for both domestic and international traffic. Total revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs) rose 6.9%, an improvement on the year-over-year increase in April of 5.7%. Capacity in May increased by 6.5%, and load factor rose 0.3 percentage […]
Canada’s Frontier Duty Free Association has passed on news that the Canadian Tourism Ministry announced a $30 million three-year program entitled “Connecting America” – which is a TIAC/CTC initiative to attract more U.S. citizens to Canada. The FDFA supports this initiative and is very pleased with the Government’s announcement. The CTC is Canada’s national tourism […]
Despite a valiant effort from the Frontier Duty Free Association (FDFA), Canada’s 2015 Federal budget released on April 21 did not include a provision for a three-year pilot program called Road TRIP (Travel Rebate Incentive Program). The program was developed by the FDFA to help incentivize US tourism visits and related spending in Canada by […]
By Larry Luxner Daily flights from Atlanta to Varadero. Overnight Miami-Havana ferry service. A Starbucks outlet at José Martí International Airport, and a Habanos duty free cigar shop at JFK. It sounds too good to be true. Yet within a few years, could all these things be ubiquitious, given President Obama’s ambitious plans to resume […]
In an undertaking that has taken five years of planning and massive construction, Baha Mar, the largest single-phase luxury resort project in the history of the Caribbean, and the largest tourism project under construction in the Western Hemisphere, will begin accepting guests on March 27, 2015. The $3.5 billion Baha Mar resort in Nassau is […]
Caribbean tourism officials said they were “encouraged” by the record tourism numbers achieved by the Caribbean in 2014, but cautioned that the region still has a ways to go to maintain and grow its market share. The comments were made by Hugh Riley, secretary general of the Caribbean Tourism Organization, during the question and answer […]
