By Lark Ellen Gould While the Costa Concordia still sits submerged off the coast of Italy and Europe takes its share of economic hits from the slumped global economy, travel agents who have traditionally made their balance sheets add up in the wake of burgeoning cruise sales have had to take their licks as well. […]

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The take on the travel industry as gleaned from the recent American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) conference in Los Angeles was as encouraging as anything the travel industry has heard so far this year: travel bookings are up from their recession lows – inching toward their 2007 levels, tours are moving away from on-the-bus […]

Despite wars, natural disasters, world economic recession, political upheaval and population unrest, people are still traveling and at greater numbers than ever. In fact, record 467 million tourists took to the road in the first half of 2012, and world tourism remains firmly on track to reach one billion travelers by the end of the […]

While that most famous of circumnavigators, Phileas Fogg, inspired the notion of sailing around the world in 80 days, most people, including cruise lovers, are lucky if they can take a two-week vacation. In response to an increasingly time deprived society, many members of Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), including luxury and specialty lines, report […]