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Tourists from mainland cities enter a Louis Vuitton store at Tsim Sha Tsui on June 5, 2024 in Hong Kong.  China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images Hong Kong’s retail sector has languished since the pandemic and analysts say it could be years before it bounces back. The city’s retail sales have

In this article AIR-FR A GE BA AAL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT TULSA, Okla. — Parts and labor shortages. Delayed deliveries of new airplanes from Boeing and Airbus. An engine recall. Premature repairs. It’s all piling up, and aircraft engine shops around the world are overflowing.  As travelers boarded planes in record numbers

“Greetings from the cockpit. This is your captain speaking.” It’s a phrase frequent flyers know well.   Only this isn’t a pilot. And what follows isn’t the same ol’ in-flight safety talk. Rather, it’s the opening salvo of a now viral YouTube video from travel journalist Doug Lansky, who delivers a near 7-minute “honest pre-flight

In this article AAL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, from American Airlines company, taking off from Barcelona airport, in Barcelona on 24th February 2023.  JanValls | Nurphoto | Getty Images As social media feeds make their seasonal shift from the Parthenon to pumpkin patches, airlines are busy preparing for the 2025

In this article UAL AAL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A pilot performs a walkaround before a United Airlines flight Leslie Josephs/CNBC U.S. passenger airlines have added nearly 194,000 jobs since 2021 as companies went on a hiring spree after spending months in a pandemic slump, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Now

A Boeing employees works outside of the cockpit of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplane in the company’s factory, on March 27, 2019 in Renton, Washington. Stephen Brashear | Getty Images Boeing and the union that represents some 33,000 of its workers have struck a new labor deal, just days before a costly strike could

In this article MAR 9961-HK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT HAIKOU, CHINA – SEPTEMBER 08: Passengers wait in line to check in at Haikou Meilan International Airport on September 8, 2024 in Haikou, Hainan Province of China. (Photo by Luo Yunfei/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images) Luo Yunfei | China News Service | Getty

In this article DIS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The U.S. travel sector has been surprisingly resilient when it comes to travel. Domestic travel numbers have returned to pre-pandemic levels and air travel has surged even as more than a third of travelers planned to take on debt for summer trips. However, inflation-weary consumers

A Chinese official dropped a bombshell in a news briefing usually reserved for major policy announcements: Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, was set to hold a “listening party” for his new “Vultures” studio album on the Chinese island of Hainan on Sept. 15. To 33-year-old Ziteng Du, a Shanghai-based office worker, and many other

Experts call it “economy class syndrome” — but it can happen to anyone in any class of an airplane. Deep vein thrombosis, or DVT as it’s known, occurs when blood clots in one or more veins. It can happen at any time, but people who travel on long-haul flights are at a higher risk because

Rome ranked second on a recent list of best travel destinations for a digital detox. Piola666 | E+ | Getty Images Despite inflation, Gen Z and millennials are determined to travel this summer, even if it means spending a bit more. While almost two-thirds, or 73%, of people are willing to pay extra fees for

In this article EXPE 9961-HK EDR-ES BKNG TRIP HTG-DE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT According to a global survey of more than 5,700 travelers commissioned by Expedia Group, the average traveler spends more than five hours researching a trip and reviews 141 pages of content — for Americans, it’s a whopping 277 pages. And

Top view of Seoul in the morning in autumn 2016. Natthapol Bussai | Moment | Getty Images China lifted a ban on group tours to more than 70 locations, giving travel and airline stocks in Asia a boost. China’s culture and tourism ministry said Thursday that group tours will resume to over dozens of locations

Passengers try to rest and sleep after canceled and delayed flights while others wait to board flights off the island as thousands of passengers were stranded at the Kahului Airport (OGG) in the aftermath of wildfires in western Maui in Kahului, Hawaii on August 9, 2023.  Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Airlines

Looking to splurge on your next vacation? The travel website FloridaPanhandle.com analyzed costs in 100 popular vacation spots, looking into average prices for accommodations, transportation, food and attractions. Here are 10 destinations that certainly call for big budgets. According to the analysis, the most expensive vacation destinations, excluding flight costs, are: Gustavia, St. Barts Gstaad,

I love Spain. So when a friend of a friend who lives on the island of Mallorca asked if I could look after her five cats in exchange for staying in her house for two weeks, I leapt at the chance. I’d never done anything like this, so I organized a video call with the

In this article ABNB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Airbnb shares slid as much as 6% in extended trading Thursday after the short-term home-rental company reported a smaller sum of nights and experiences booked in the second quarter than analysts had projected. Here’s how the company did: Earnings: 98 cents per share, vs. 78

The Tomohon Extreme Market was once a top tourist attraction in the Indonesian province of North Sulawesi — a live animal market filled with everything from fileted pythons to skewered bats and rats. But the market drew international condemnation in 2018 after animal activists shot videos of dogs and cats being brutally beaten and blowtorched

When it comes to passenger rail in the the U.S., Americans have one option — Amtrak, which is often plagued with high ticket prices and delays. But one Florida-based company is working on changing that. Brightline, which is owned by Fortress Investment Group, thinks that privatized passenger rail in the U.S. could be a better

In this article MAR LUV JBLU ULCC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Women pose for a photo while holding an ice cream at Trevi fountain during hot weather as a heat wave hits Europe in Rome, Italy, July 19, 2022.  Guglielmo Mangiapane | Reuters The competition for travel dollars is heating up, and the