Latest Travel Headlines
All the headlines from our Travel Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Indiana Travel Agent Sentenced For Wire Fraud
Apr 18 2022 // Maria Caceres an Indiana travel agent was sentenced last week to 30 months in federal prison following her conviction of wire fraud, to which she had previously plead guilty. According to court records, the 56-year old...
Hawaii Lifting COVID-19 Travel Quarantine Rules
Mar 3 2022 // Hawaii plans to lift its COVID-19 quarantine requirement for travelers this month, meaning that starting on March 26 those arriving from other places in the U.S. won’t have to show proof of vaccination or a negative...
People Moves: Fairfax Financial Promotes Clarke to President; AXA XL Names Lee as Head of Claims, Canada; Zurich’s Price Joins SiriusPoint as Head of Travel A&H
Feb 14 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Fairfax Financial Holdings, AXA XL and SiriusPoint Ltd. A summary of these new hires follows here. Fairfax Financial Holdings Promotes Clarke to...
FAA Expects Addressing Safety Issues to Cause Only ‘Minimal Disruptions’ to Air Travel
Feb 3 2022 // The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is confident that aviation safety concerns about 5G C-Band deployment will be addressed “safely with minimal disruptions,” the head of the FAA will tell U.S. lawmakers...
Record Snowfall Disrupts Train, Air Travel in Western Japan
Dec 28 2021 // A powerful storm rammed western Japan with record snowfall, disrupting flights, train travel and leaving hundreds without power. Snowfall surpassed 70 centimeters (28 inches) in the cities of Hikone and Maizuru, in the...
Where Employers Stand on Vaccines, ‘New Normal’ Workplace, Remote Work, Travel
Dec 6 2021 // Although more than half (57%) of U.S. employers say they require or plan to require COVID-19 vaccinations of employees, much of that support depends on whether courts approve the Biden Administration’s emergency...
Where Employers Stand on Vaccines, ‘New Normal’ Workplace, Remote Work, Travel
Nov 30 2021 // Although more than half (57%) of U.S. employers say they require or plan to require COVID-19 vaccinations of employees, much of that support depends on whether courts approve the Biden Administration’s emergency...
Louisiana Turns to Travel Trailers For Residents Displaced by Ida
Oct 29 2021 // Louisiana’s temporary housing program for people displaced by Hurricane Ida is increasing its pace of getting people into travel trailers, but Gov. John Bel Edwards said he’s still pushing for the program to...
U.S. Road Travel Up 11.5% in July
Sep 24 2021 // U.S. motorists drove 11.5% more miles in July as driving nearly matched pre-COVID levels and more Americans returned to offices and took leisure trips. The Federal Highway Administration said Thursday motorists drove 290.1...
Businesses Show They’re in No Rush to Resume Busy Travel Schedules
Jul 28 2021 // Of the 2 million people clogging airport security lines and gate areas again each day, one crowd is still largely missing: business travelers. Their absence is noteworthy because they are a key source of revenue and...
AXA Partners, Club Med Launch Travel Insurance Program
Jul 9 2021 // Club Med and AXA Partners have signed an agreement to offer an insurance policy designed to cover unforeseen events that travelers may encounter before, during or after their trip, including COVID-19. The “Serenity...
Royal Caribbean Cruises Requiring Travel Insurance for Unvaccinated Passengers
Jun 29 2021 // Royal Caribbean, which has restarted its cruises, said it is requiring that unvaccinated guests age 12 and older sailing from Florida homeports provide proof of travel insurance to cover any quarantine, evacuation and...
Amazon CEO Bezos Volunteers for Risky Space Travel Journey in June
Jun 8 2021 // Amazon’s billionaire founder Jeff Bezos said on Monday he and his brother Mark will fly on the first crewed space flight from his rocket company Blue Origin next month. “Ever since I was five years old,...
Lack of Travel Has Harmed Business Relations, Chubb Survey Finds
Apr 30 2021 // Business travelers are eager to travel again for work and life, but most remain concerned at the same time about contracting COVID-19 and favor extra precautions. They are also concerned that their lack of travel has hurt...
Pet Insurance Outshines Travel, Other Inland Marine Coverages Cut by COVID: AM Best
Apr 23 2021 // The U.S. inland marine insurance segment experienced a “significant downturn in profitability” in 2020, with its loss ratio deteriorating by nearly 16 percentage points amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to...
Allianz Partners Adds Epidemic Coverage to Travel Insurance Products
Mar 23 2021 // Allianz Partners, a travel insurance and assistance company, has added enhancements to its travel insurance products that may provide coverage to customers who become ill with COVID-19 or a future epidemic, are...
Insurtech Blink Expands into Central, Latin America; Partners with Travel Assistance Firm
Mar 15 2021 // Blink Parametric, the Cork, Ireland-based insurtech, has announced a major expansion of its flight disruption insurance platform in Central & Latin America, scheduled for launch this month. The partnership between...
Demand for Travel Insurance Takes Off As More Destinations Require Coverage
Mar 8 2021 // COVID-19 insurance policies are increasingly joining passports and sunscreen as vacation staples, creating opportunities for insurers as more countries require mandatory coverage in case visitors fall ill from the...
Airlines Seek WHO Approval of Quarantine-Free Travel After Vaccines
Jan 27 2021 // The airline industry has called on the World Health Organization to rule it’s safe for people to fly without quarantining once they’ve had a coronavirus vaccine. Acknowledgement of that principle from the...
Brexit Ends Britons’ Right to Live and Work in EU – And Travel Insurance Is Essential
Dec 30 2020 // LONDON (AP) – So far, the large majority of British and EU citizens have not felt the realities of Brexit. Though the UK left the European Union on Jan. 31, it follows the bloc’s rules until the end of this year as...
