Since 1972, when President Richard Nixon made his celebrated trip to Beijing, the American fascination with China has undergone a slow but steady evolution. For tourists, China’s mysteries were opened by escorted tour operators, but over the decades the relentless exploration by business travelers led to the development of a much more sophisticated Chinese travel experience....

Air France-KLM is considering starting a low-cost domestic carrier in order to compete with low-cost rivals, according to press reports. The company would not comment, but the French news agency AF reported that the airline ...

British Airways reported that its August British Airways reported that its August traffic dropped only slightly, despite strike fears. It said that traffic, measured in revenue passenger kilometers, fell by 2.9 percent. Passenger capacity, measured ...

The Allied Pilots Association (APA), which represents the 11,500 pilots of The Allied Pilots Association (APA), which represents the 11,500 pilots of American Airlines, said that it supports a proposal put forth by the pilots ...

Carnival Cruise Lines has announced a new cancellation policy for all new FIT and group business. Effective Sept. 11, the cancellation penalty will be the amount of the client’s deposit, or 50 percent or 75 ...

The first six months of 2010 saw international tourist arrivals grow by 7 percent according to the August Interim Update of the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer. This result confirms the recovery trend beginning in the ...

Avis Budget Group, Inc. said it is increasing the cash portion of its offer for Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group from $39.25 to $40.75 per share. The revised offer, which values Dollar Thrifty at roughly $1.35 ...

The damage caused by Hurricane Earl will cost Caribbean destinations between $50 million to $150 million, according to estimate from insurance companies and risk consultants. The damage includes wind damage to properties in the Virgin ...

Mexico’s Secretariats of Communications and Transport (SCT), Tourism (SECTUR), Economy (SE) and Foreign Affairs (SRE) announced actions to attend to travelers affected by the suspension of operations by airlines operated by Nuevo Grupo Aeronáutico, including ...

In its Fall Travel Trends Survey, Travel Leaders found its travel agents are not seeing any impact from the Gulf Coast oil spill disaster on travel bookings to the region for the remainder of the ...

ASTA said that effective immediately Mary Clegg, vice president of the National Association of Career Travel Agents (NACTA), will assume the day-to-day operations of the organization....

According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), residents and travelers spanning a swath of the country from North Carolina in the south along the East Coast to the north as far as Nova Scotia can ...