What a nightmare to be booked on a Southwest Airlines flight? FAA ordered Southwest Airlines to ground all its flights in the US. The airline claims the reason is a nationwide computer outage. The reason: Not told! - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online Read More

WestJet flying more flights than any other Canadian airline with additional Dreamliner service and new direct flights from Calgary to Kona and Lihue. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online Read More

Hawaii is known as the Aloha State. It has been an example to the world when it comes to safety throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The government is working on making the Aloha State available to all visitors once 70 percent of all residents are vaccinated. This may be just weeks away. In the meantime, other major travel restrictions will be lifted on June 15. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News... Read More

New report ranks Best & Worst US Cities for Staycations in 2021. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online Read More

Hawaii has experienced a rapid rise in visitor arrivals during May, which is anticipated to continue through the summer months and is causing a rental car shortage. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online Read More

Prior to the pandemic, Hawaii experienced record-level visitor expenditures and arrivals in 2019 and in the first two months of 2020. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online Read More

Year-to-date, the statistics for statewide hotel RevPAR and occupancy were much lower compared to the first four months of 2020. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online Read More

The Los Angeles metro area is the most attractive destination on the West Coast and the Atlanta metro area is the most attractive destination on the East Coast. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online Read More

New flights bring Hawaii service closer to more of customers who live near airports across the West, and make it possible to choose Southwest to fly between the Aloha State and cities as far east as Nashville, without spending an entire overnight in the air. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online Read More

Air Canada says "Aloha" to Winter 2022 from Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online Read More

The rebuilding travel discussion by the World Tourism Network (WTB) started in March 2020 and is taking its activities to a new level today in launching Health without Borders. Tourism will not be back until everyone is safe. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online Read More

Previously serving as Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) vice-chair, George Kam was named as the new chair at yesterday’s monthly board meeting. He is an active community leader and is a former executive in the surf industry. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online Read More

At the just concluded WTTC Summit in Cancun, Mexico. There wasn't any public discussion on the catastrophic situation in India, but CEO Gloria Guevara took the initative and interviewed Manuel Santos, a signer with 170 others to push US President Biden to open patent restrictions, allowing the vaccine to reach developing nations - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online Read More

Visitor arrivals to Hawaii during March 2021 rose 1.1 percent compared to a year ago, according to preliminary statistics released by the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA). This was the first time in a year where visitor arrivals were up, but the year-to-date arrivals were still significantly down (-60.1%). - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online Read More

At the just concluded WTTC Summit in Cancun, Mexico. There wasn't any public discussion on the catastrophic situation in India, but CEO Gloria Guevara took the initative and interviewed Manuel Santos, a signer with 170 others to push US President Biden to open patent restrictions, allowing the vaccine to reach developing nations - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News Online Read More