Author: Arnie Weissmann 

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…

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…