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Colorado gets its first spaceport
Matt Falcus Transportation Technology & AutomotiveA seven-year wait has paid off for a general aviation airport near Denver, as it has received approval to become only the 11th commercial spaceport in the country. However, not all parties are as pleased with the news and its potential impact. Front Range Airport, less than 8 miles from Denver International Airport, is a two-runway general aviation field with no airline service but a number of based aircraft and private operators. The airport has now been renamed Colorado Air and Space Port following approval by the Federal Aviation Administration, which spent 180 days reviewing the application.
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8 great American air and space museums
Dave G. Houser Recreation & LeisureAs the very birthplace of flight — and as the world leader in aviation development and space exploration — the United States is quite naturally home to the world’s biggest and best aviation and aerospace museums. These museums showcase everything from the Wright Brothers’ 1903 Flyer to NASA’s recently retired space shuttles. Those famous shuttles — Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavour and Enterprise — are on display, or soon will be, at museums across the country. Read on to learn more about eight of America’s finest aviation and aerospace museums.
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How IoT will play a role in the future of travel
Bambi Majumdar Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementThe Internet of Things (IoT) is disrupting the travel industry. In this era of personalization, IoT is paving the way for brands to effectively connect with customers. Hospitality and travel realize this more than other industries, and they are using big data analysis to achieve this goal. IoT solutions also autonomously reduce time lags and streamline resources. They take care of trivial tasks and help automate amenities that can be handled without human intervention. In turn, staffs are left with more time to serve customers.
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Caribbean comeback: Tourism returns to the islands a year after the storms
Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementBarring any more hurricanes this season, the Caribbean is back. That was the word at this year’s Virtuoso Week, where Karolin Troubetzkoy, immediate past president of the Caribbean Hotel Association, addressed travel industry advisors and media about the state of tourism in the Caribbean one year after hurricanes Irma, Jose and Maria wreaked havoc on the region in nearly consecutive high-intensity storms. "The region lost three percent of arrivals, but it’s coming back even better," she said. "There is a certain spirit of enthusiasm in the Caribbean. It's been really tough, but we are going to come back really strong from the experience."
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Surprising travel trends from Virtuoso Week 2018
Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementFueled by a strong U.S. economy and an ever-increasing passion for noteworthy travel experiences, leisure travel is on track to become more sustainable and personal, according to the latest news from Virtuoso Travel Week 2018. Some 6,071 travel professionals from 100 countries met in mid-August in Las Vegas for the conference’s 30th annual gathering. Numbers were up in just about every category, and professionals also saw their chances to influence travel through a changing landscape of politics, environmental factors and economic circumstances.
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McDonald’s flagship: An example of newly renovated space
Linchi Kwok Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementThe advance of technology has transformed the way restaurants and hotels operate their businesses. When almost everything, from reservations, productions, and service delivery, to the collection of payments, can be performed by machines, restaurants and hotels must also reconsider how they may better utilize the space for smooth operations. McDonald’s, for example, recently revealed a flagship store that looks like an Apple Store in Chicago, roughly two months after the company opened a brand-new, $250 million headquarters in an up-and-coming Windy City neighborhood known for its trendy restaurants.
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Quiet hobbies to do while RVing
Cindy Belt Recreation & LeisureRVing allows you travel the world. However, not all your time is spent sightseeing, especially if you are a full-time RVer. While some hobbies are difficult to accommodate from an RV (bladesmithing, carpentry, and large collections are examples that come to mind), some work well in your new life. Some of the quieter ones include reading, writing and crafting, among others.
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Peppers, potatoes, pineapples: How the ‘real discoveries’ of…
Dave G. Houser Food & BeverageAlthough Christopher Columbus is credited with "discovering" the New World amid a search for riches, that wasn’t really the case. What his journeys did yield was a treasure trove of an entirely different kind — a find that probably didn’t seem of great value at the time — New World foods. Arriving in the Bahamas in 1492, Columbus and his crew encountered the Arawak, a thriving and peaceful indigenous people who drew sustenance from an array of colorful native crops that were completely new to the Spaniards.
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Turkish Airlines prepares for Istanbul New Airport amid rumors of stake…
Matt Falcus Transportation Technology & AutomotiveTurkish Airlines, on the back of its highest ever load factors, has undertaken a trial operation of the Istanbul New Airport and announced plans for the largest movement of equipment in civil aviation history ahead of its October opening. It has certainly been a momentous time for the Turkish flag carrier and its growing dominance of air travel in Europe and the Middle East. On Aug. 9, the airline reported it carried a record 7.5 million passengers and 119,000 tons of cargo in July, marking its best ever month, with a $258 million net operating profit in the first half of 2018.
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Big Sur back in action as Highway 1 reopens
Dave G. Houser Recreation & LeisureCalifornia’s most famous road trip is back on. For the first time in 14 months, Highway 1 — aka the Pacific Coast Highway — is open without interruption, after a quarter-mile chunk of it in Big Sur was wiped away in a massive landslide last year. Over the years, landslides have taken out portions of the iconic highway, but none were as big as the so-called Mud Creek slide in May 2017, when more than 6 million cubic yards of earth collapsed into the sea following torrential rains.
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