Author: Arnie Weissmann 

My spell-checker recognizes “Disneyfied” as a word. Its usage is typically pejorative, used to describe a place where human intervention has pushed a destination into the sphere of artifice. Interestingly, Disney World…

In 1960, Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard were the first humans to descend into Challenger Deep, the lowest point in any of the planet’s oceans. Monday, on the 63rd anniversary of that…

Founder Dave Herbert has appointed Great Safaris’ business development manager, Guillaume Van Wyk, to succeed him as the company’s CEO, a title that Herbert had held since the organization launched in 2010….

Last Sunday, they gathered in the bar at the Ritz-Carlton Central Park in New York to honor the memory of a hospitality giant. General managers flew in from Honolulu, Dallas, Atlanta and…

NASHVILLE — Explora Journeys’ first ship will not, as previously announced, go to Alaska in summer 2024. Instead, the Explora I will sail the Mediterranean. Explora chief sales officer Chris Austin made…

Travel has always had a knack for verbing a noun: Ticketing, vacationing, jetting. Now comes a new one, possibly as lucrative to the bottom line as it is initially distasteful to the…

Where to begin? I know three of the five people on the missing submersible Titan. I had spent eight days with two of them less than a month ago, and four days…

When my children were young, in lieu of a bedtime story they would sometimes ask: “Tell us about another time you almost died.” Which is to say: I’ve done a lot of…

Editor’s note: Two days after this column was published, a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck outside Marrakech. A statement posted on Kasbah du Toubkal’s website said that although the hotel sustained some damage no…

Hotel development typically follows a straightforward business narrative: The owner, often a real estate investment group, shops for a brand that makes sense for the location and property attributes. A deal is…