US will give visa appointment priority to World Cup ticket holders

BBC News

The Fifa Pass scheme will allow ticket holders to get faster appointments at US embassies

Air Canada and Porter's battle over Toronto lowers New York fares ... for now

Edward Russell, The Points Guy

Air Canada and Porter Airlines are set to duke it out for U.S. fliers at Toronto's convenient Billy Bishop Airport.

Hotels: Occupancy Rate Decreased 2.4% Year-over-year

Calculated Risk, Calculatedriskblog.com

Hotel occupancy was weak over the summer months, due to less international tourism.  The fall months are mostly domestic travel and occupanc...

Hundreds of private jets have crowded a tiny Long Island airport for the Ryder Cup

Madeline Berg,Lakshmi Varanasi, Business Insider

There could be as many as 3,000 private flights landing in the greater New York area this weekend as the wealthy arrive to watch the Ryder Cup.

O, Canada! Americans — and their businesses — miss their neighbors up north

Juliana Kaplan, Business Insider

Canadians and American border states used to go together like gravy on fried potatoes, but political tensions have halted Canadian tourism to the US.

Foreign tourism to the US drops amid Trump-era policies

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

Tourism down in five out of six months, with experts linking decline to president's rhetoric and restrictive policies.

Uncertainty Isn’t Keeping Americans at Home. Travel Stocks Are Benefiting

barrons.com, Biztoc.com

Mexico's president calls march against mass tourism 'xenophobic.' Critics blame government failures

MEGAN JANETSKY and MARÍA VERZA, Yahoo Entertainment

A fierce protest in Mexico City railing against gentrification and mass tourism was fueled by government failures and active promotion to attract digital...

North Korea has a new luxury beach resort. But the country isn't open to most tourists

Se Eun Gong, NPR

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he wants the luxury resort on the eastern seacoast to become a "world destination," but the country has been reluctant to allow in foreign tourists.

Cancel the grizzly bear

Christine Peterson, Vox

In the early 1900s, long before smartphones and selfie sticks, tourists flocked to Yellowstone National Park — not for the geysers or scenery, but for a grotesque show: A nightly spectacle of grizzly bears raiding cafeteria scraps from open-pit landfills like…

Inside The New World Of Italian Soccer Tourism

David Ferrini, Contributor, David Ferrini, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidferrini-1/, Forbes

The issues surrounding income in Italian soccer and how one club aims to create new revenue streams by revolutionising luxury tourism.

Tourists from countries badly hit by Trump tariffs are staying away from US

The Guardian

Data from hotel site Trivago shows fewer US bookings by holidaymakers from Canada, Japan, Mexico and Germany