Biggest Apple Ever: NY Gets 54M Tourists, Expects More!
December 11, 2013
New York’s tourism industry played host to 54.3 million tourists this year, a record, and expects to break it next year with more than 55 million.
New York’s tourism industry played host to 54.3 million tourists this year, a record, and expects to break it next year with more than 55 million.
If you send your Teddy Bear on one of these Japanese tours, please have them post on TravelGumbo!
The DC-10, last plane to carry the Douglas name and almost the last 3-engine jet in active service, will see its last passenger flight within the next month as Birman Bangladesh airlines replaces it with 777s.
Ryanair, noted for low-cost tickets and strict rules and fees has now relented a bit. Passengers can now carry a second small bag free, and fee for getting your boarding pass reprinted has dropped from $95 to $20
If one buys a home or apartment for at least 500,000 Euros and holds it for 5 years, investors will receive a Portuguese residence permit. Rich Chinese business people are doing just that.”Only obliged to spend seven days per year in…
Southwest, now the biggest U.S. domestic carrier, and Virgin America will expand service from New York’s Laguardia Airport using gate slots bought from American Airlines. The sale was part of the requirement for merger approval of AA and USAir, which…
Travelers flying from Britain will be forced to pay even more in Air Passenger Duty. it’s the sixth time in as many years.
Ideas Revenue solutions claims that its new software will give its clients a way to evaluate their online reputations and that of their competitors to more effectively price rooms.
GoGo Internet, the company that supplies the inflight WiFi on most U.S. domestic flights has gotten the OK to begin installin on Boeing 747-400s for international service, and will soon extend to other models as well. Details
An interesting piece by Wall Street Journal columnist, Scott McCarthy, on what some airlines are doing to make their food taste better. Apparently there are significant taste perception differences at high altitude as opposed to eating at sea…
New York’s tourism industry played host to 54.3 million tourists this year, a record, and expects to break it next year with more than 55 million.
If you send your Teddy Bear on one of these Japanese tours, please have them post on TravelGumbo!
The DC-10, last plane to carry the Douglas name and almost the last 3-engine jet in active service, will see its last passenger flight within the next month as Birman Bangladesh airlines replaces it with 777s.
Ryanair, noted for low-cost tickets and strict rules and fees has now relented a bit. Passengers can now carry a second small bag free, and fee for getting your boarding pass reprinted has dropped from $95 to $20
If one buys a home or apartment for at least 500,000 Euros and holds it for 5 years, investors will receive a Portuguese residence permit. Rich Chinese business people are doing just that.”Only obliged to spend seven days per year in…
Southwest, now the biggest U.S. domestic carrier, and Virgin America will expand service from New York’s Laguardia Airport using gate slots bought from American Airlines. The sale was part of the requirement for merger approval of AA and USAir, which…
Travelers flying from Britain will be forced to pay even more in Air Passenger Duty. it’s the sixth time in as many years.
Ideas Revenue solutions claims that its new software will give its clients a way to evaluate their online reputations and that of their competitors to more effectively price rooms.
GoGo Internet, the company that supplies the inflight WiFi on most U.S. domestic flights has gotten the OK to begin installin on Boeing 747-400s for international service, and will soon extend to other models as well. Details
An interesting piece by Wall Street Journal columnist, Scott McCarthy, on what some airlines are doing to make their food taste better. Apparently there are significant taste perception differences at high altitude as opposed to eating at sea…