by Beth Holmes | May 24, 2021 | Travel, Travel tips, Uncategorized
According to a Harris Poll, 77 percent of Americans are planning summer travel this year, with 26 percent ready to go right now. That makes sense, with Memorial Day weekend (May 27-31) coming right up. That’s a little lower than pre-pandemic numbers for a...
by Beth Holmes | May 14, 2021 | Business, Travel
Property by property, Las Vegas casinos are being allowed to play a full house. On Wednesday, May 12, the Nevada Gaming Control Board lifted occupancy restrictions for a number of casino resorts on the famous Strip. Gambling floors will be allowed to open at 100...
by Beth Holmes | May 10, 2021 | International, News, Travel
On Tuesday May 4th, the United States put strict restrictions on travel from India into U.S. airports, joining the rest of the world in holding the country at arm’s length. India is currently suffering from an extremely heavy surge of coronavirus infections....
by Beth Holmes | May 3, 2021 | News, Politics, Travel
Transatlantic tourism has been virtually nonexistent for over a year now, for obvious, pandemic-related reasons. And it hasn’t opened up yet, even though vaccination numbers are climbing and infection numbers are falling in both the United States and the...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 26, 2021 | International, Places On Our Bucket List, Travel
Thirty-five years after the disaster, the name Chernobyl still evokes desolation. Everyone has seen images of the nearby city of Pripyat, abandoned one spring day in 1986 and never lived in again. But the reality is not nearly so isolated. Pripyat and the Chernobyl...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 19, 2021 | News, Places On Our Bucket List, Travel
When most of the features of Coney Island closed in the fall of 2019 for the usual winter closure, vendors had every expectation of opening again in February, once the snow melts. They do it every year. But in February 2020, no one got to welcome a New York spring by...
