New York City’s once seemingly indomitable hospitality industry sustained another blow this week when the owners of the historic Roosevelt Hotel, a 96-year-old Midtown institution, announced that the 1,025-room hotel will cease operations on Oct. 31.
Named for President Theodore Roosevelt, the hotel opened in the fall of 1924, and its Italian Renaissance façade of chiseled marble and limestone has been an unchanging fixture of the Manhattan streetscape ever since.
Twenty-five total states and Puerto Rico are now on the Chicago travel quarantine order. The four new states added Tuesday were Indiana, North Carolina, Rhode Island and New Mexico.
The threshold for inclusion on the quarantine order list is an average of at least more than 15 new cases per 100,000.
Wisconsin also remains
Many of us have been forced to rethink travel plans in the wake of Covid-19, but if you’re soothing your canceled-vacation-blues by daydreaming about future adventures, Lonely Planet’s new “Ultimate Travel List” might be just what you need.
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Lonely Planet has just released the second edition of its popular “Ultimate Travel List” coffee table book, which ranks
Hilton is the latest hotel brand to offer up its guest rooms to workers looking for a change of scenery.
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Amenities include in-room cocktail delivery, stability balls, air purifiers, and more.
Through its new WorkSpaces program, Hilton is offering private rooms at the Conrad New York Downtown with breakfast, lunch, and happy hour cocktail delivery for $300. Meanwhile, at the Hilton Boston Back Bay, a $99 work-from-hotel day
MCLEAN, Va., Oct. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — After six months of restrictions brought on by a global pandemic, it may be no surprise that Americans are missing travel right now. But what is surprising, according to a new study conducted on behalf of Hilton, Americans say travel is their most frequently recalled happy memory, more than special occasions or personal achievements and the majority cite creating lasting memories as
(MENAFN – Jordan Times) AMMAN — The rose-red city of Petra has ranked top in Lonely Planet’s, world’s leading publisher of the popular travel guides, latest Ultimate Travel List that featured 500 best must-see places.
According to Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travel List released on Wednesday, Petra, some 220 kilometres south of Amman, has been named as ‘the number one place in the world to experience outdoor adventure’.
Also among the
New Jersey’s coronavirus travel advisory re-added New Mexico Tuesday bringing the list back to 35 states and territories where travelers are asked to quarantine for 14 days after arriving in the Garden State.
Those states and territories considered COVID-19 hotspots because they had a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents or a 10% or higher positivity rate over a 7-day rolling average. The list is updated weekly
Automattic Recognized in the Definitive List of the Top 100 Private Cloud Companies in the World
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Automattic — a leader in publishing and e-commerce software and the parent company behind the industry-leading brands WordPress.com, WooCommerce, WordPress VIP, Jetpack, Tumblr, and more — was awarded a coveted spot on the prestigious Forbes Cloud 100 list, the annual ranking of
LONDON, Oct. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ —
Lonely Planet has ranked the top 500 unmissable global travel experiences helping to satisfy your wanderlust from the safety of an armchair.
According to leading global travel authority Lonely Planet’s
The Egyptian pyramids (Credit: Intrepid Travel)
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
TORONTO — For anyone unsure of how to travel in 2021 during a global health crisis, Intrepid Travel has a few essential tips.
The company has released its first-ever ‘How’ To Go in 2021 list, a compilation that replaces its annual ‘where to go’ lists. Featuring five
Indiana is again in danger of being added to Chicago’s quarantine travel order next week, officials announced Tuesday.
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In this file photo, Dr. Allison Arwady, Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) approaches the podium during a news conference held at City Hall in Chicago on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020.
While the neighboring state is still just at a warning
CHICAGO — Health officials in Chicago updated the city’s emergency travel order Tuesday. Alaska has been added. Georgia and Texas were removed.
Health officials also list Indiana at a warning level.
According to the city’s website
Indiana is seeing a daily case average of over 15 cases/100k/day. To allow residents enough time to plan travel to this border state, it has been added to a warning list. If Indiana is
New Jersey’s coronavirus travel advisory added a state Tuesday while two others were removed from the list of places people are asked to quarantine for 14 days if they’re returning home or visiting due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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There are 34 states and territories considered COVID-19 hotspots that New Jersey, New York and Connecticut have agreed to put on the travel.
There are currently 34
Friday, September 18, 2020
By: Kathryn Folliott and Cindy Sosroutomo
TORONTO — While this is far from a typical year, Europe still beckons for many, and some clients may be wondering how to travel to Europe this fall.
More than 20 European countries are open to Canadian travellers, even if Canadians must still quarantine for 14 days upon their
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