Headline News: Travel

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Virginia‘s newest tourism campaign is focused on getting travelers off their couches and into their cars for an “Old School” road trip. State officials launched the new campaign Thursday in Norfolk at Doumar’s Barbecue and Cones, … Continue reading →

We wouldn’t call it cheap, but the current Spain sale from American and matching carriers is the least expensive on offer for late summer travel to Barcelona and Madrid. Travel is valid from August 1 through August 23. Return by … Continue reading →

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A French woman accused of causing a US Airways flight to be diverted to Maine by claiming she had a surgically implanted device will soon be headed back home, officials said Wednesday. U.S. Attorney Thomas Delahanty … Continue reading →

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — The Margaritaville Casino is open. And it’s already getting rave reviews. Pascagoula native Jimmy Buffett came home Tuesday and opened Margaritaville Casino Restaurant in Biloxi. Buffett played for nearly an hour, sharing songs and memories of … Continue reading →

Southwest Airlines Co. promises to pay for $100 million in airport improvements so that it can launch international flights from Houston‘s Hobby Airport. With the Southwest pledge, Houston Mayor Annise Parker endorsed the expansion of Hobby, which is smaller but … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tourism officials say Washington saw a record 17.9 million visitors last year, surpassing a previous record of 17.4 million set in 2000 before the 9/11 attacks. Statistics released Tuesday by the tourism bureau Destination D.C. show a … Continue reading →

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Under a new deal with pilots, Delta Air Lines Inc. traded pay raises of almost 13 percent for the ability to operate more large regional jets, according to details of the agreement released on Monday. Pilots and … Continue reading →

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Jimmy Buffett says he knows how to put on a show. Supporters of the Margaritaville casino in Biloxi are counting on it as the gambling hall opens Tuesday. Margaritaville is among the smallest casinos approved by … Continue reading →

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Disneyland is not just for sugar-soaked kids. Consider, all you grown-up women out there, going for a gals’ day out. That’s exactly what my childhood friend Joanna and I, both of us in our 30s, recently … Continue reading →

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Could a wine glass shaped roughly like a closed tulip blossom revolutionize the savoring of fine vintages by taming the alcohol in the wine? That’s the hope of French luxury crystal glassmaker Baccarat, which recently began … Continue reading →