The Maldives has joined the growing list of countries backing Palestine...
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(Black Enterprise) — The University of Maryland Terpswill face the East Carolina University Piratesin the 2010 Military Bowl presented by Northrop GrummanDecember 29 in one of the 31 sponsored college bowl games that will dominate sports television for the next few weeks. And while fans of both teams will tune in or venture to RFK Memorial Stadium […]
(Washington Examiner) — District and Virginia officials are preparing to join a national fight to force Internet-based travel sites to pay more in local hotel taxes. The D.C. Council is set to vote Tuesday on a measure that would require discount travel sites like Expedia and Travelocity to pay more in taxes to capture about […]
(Wall Street Journal) — Oprah Winfrey spent this week helping to sell Australia to the world as the country looks for new ways to stem a sharp fall in tourism at a time when the strength of its currency makes it an increasingly unaffordable destination. Outbound travelers now exceed arrivals by roughly 1.2 million a […]
(Jamaican Observer) — US Ambassador to Jamaica Pamella Bridgewater is recommending that tourism interests grasp the opportunity to expand the product during next year’s celebration of the Year of African Descendants. “Next year will be the year of the African Descendants and I think African American tourists can come here as well as others who […]
(AJC) — Increased convention traffic this year has pushed hotel/motel tax collections up 10 percent over 2009, the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau says. To date, the city has collected about $20.9 million in the hotel/motel tax, said Gregory Pierce, ACVB executive vice president and chief financial officer. Hotel/motel taxes are a key revenue source for […]
(AJC) — Before the economy flatlined in 2008, bling was the thing in metro Atlanta. Developers, hoteliers and marketers, enjoying ready access to financing, focused on a new direction to grow their businesses: up. The buzzword was “luxury,” and everything worth having had to be upscale. Last week’s Chapter 11 filing by the Sea Island […]
(Crain’s) — The city’s tourism industry is well on its way to a full recovery, reported city and state officials, who gathered at City Hall Wednesday to announce the $1.2 billion Delta Terminal expansion project. Preliminary data shows that 23.5 million visitors came to the Big Apple in the first half of this year, an […]
(WSJ) — Now that New York has outlawed short-term apartment and room rentals, a practice that has given budget travelers an alternative to the city’s pricey hotels, we’ve got to wonder: How will the new law be enforced? The new law, signed by Gov. David Paterson on Friday, makes it illegal to rent space in most […]
(Atlanta Business Chronicle) — Business travelers are back on the road, and Atlanta’s hospitality industry is feeling it. Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines Inc. is adding first-class offerings on 66 regional aircraft beginning this fall, and area hotels began seeing strong growth in business travel reservations in February. Business travel in the United States is responsible for […]
(Washington Post) — Spinning around on the Glen Echo carousel one recent Saturday was a lovely sight — blacks and whites together, laughing and talking, joking about their gray hair and how much has changed in the 50 years since they first met. The scene was a stark contrast to the iconic image of that […]