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[unable to retrieve full-text content] Smiths Falls travel agency goes the distance — albeit a short one    Ottawa Valley News

Bolton Landing, N.Y. — An iconic resort on an Adirondacks island has been deemed one of the best resorts in the nation. The Sagamore Resort was voted the third-best destination resort in the United States in a contest by USA Today's 10Best. The luxurious Sagamore — a historic hotel in Bolton Landing that dates back to the late 1800s — is housed on a private island on Lake George and includes a golf course, a spa, an indoor rec center and plenty of waterside fun. The resort made the list alongside the Acqualina Resort & Residences on the Beach in sunny Florida and The Broadmoor in mountainous Colorado. 10Best editors worked with a panel of experts to come up with an initial list of 20 lauded resorts. The 10 final winners were then picked by voters. The Sagamore Resort, a Queen Anne-style hotel housed on the private, 70-acre Green Island, opened in 1883. President Richard Nixon is among its roster of historic guests, according to Historic Hotels of America. The resort's l...

For the most part, all-inclusive resorts have always fit into the same mold in the same general destinations. We're talking watered-down drinks and subpar food at resorts dotting the beaches up and down the Caribbean and Mexico. Lately, though, the tide has been changing for the all-inclusive experience. Major hotel companies — including Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt — have been investing serious cash to break the all-inclusive stereotypes as they collect resorts around the world. It's been almost like a game of Monopoly — but one with unlimited tequila and random breaks to limbo with your mother-in-law. In this game, Hyatt just made one of the most interesting moves yet: It added five resorts in Bulgaria, along the Black Sea, to The Inclusive Collection. Sign up for our daily newsletter Hyatt's new additions Last year, Hyatt closed its roughly $2.7 billion dollar acquisition of Apple Leisure Group, which added about 100 all-inclusive properties to the company's collection...

What Can You Expect With Contiki? As of March 2019, their most popular tour available is their 'European Discovery' tour, a twelve-day trip with stops in seven countries (and passing by two more). It covers the highlights of seven cities along the route and gives each traveller the option to participate in additional activities or go off on their own. The experience can differ a lot depending on the type of trip that you book. For example; the forty-five-day 'Ultimate European' tour bounces around Europe and with a particular focus on the islands of Greece. Which is a wildly different experience to their Highlight trips in Vietnam or Thailand, which are only around nine or ten days. And both of those are incredibly different to a four-day New Years trip to Amsterdam. ...

The EU tourism industry seems to be rebounding from the COVID-19 pandemic strongly, with data for 2022 closely mirroring that for 2019.  Compared with the first half year of 2019, before the pandemic hit the EU, the total number of nights spent in tourist accommodation in the first half year of 2022 was still inferior (1.01 billion in 2022 vs 1.18 billion in 2019) but to a lesser extent than in 2020 (474.7 million) and 2021 (406.8 million). This means a 14% decrease in 2022 compared with 2019, against 66% in 2021 and 60% in 2020.  Compared with the first half year of 2021, in the same period of 2022, nights spent in tourist accommodation were up by 149%, with substantial increases in all six months. April was the month with the highest increase, up 302% compared with April 2021 (44 million nights in 2021 vs 177.6 million in 2022).  Source dataset: tour_occ_nim Data for the first half year of 2022 also show that international touris...

In times like these we all need to relax, and sometimes that means taking a much needed vacation. But where to go?  Travel company Club Med has an answer for people seeking happiness. It has ranked destinations worldwide on a happiness scale of 0–100, using data from the 50 most visited tourist spots. The list, titled "Happiest Holiday Destinations 2022," is intended to identify the best spots for stress-free holidays with some adventure.  In creating the list, the company considered the following nine metrics: crime, safety, pollution, cost of domestic beer, outdoor activities, day trips, spas, and wellness centers, LGBTQ+ friendliness, and happiness score. The top-ranked destination is well-known for stress-free vacations full of spas and wellness centers. The next four cities all provide tourists what Club Med calls "a unique experience."  Here are Club Med's top 10 happiest travel destinations for 20...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] 32 Top Cheap Weekend Getaways in the U.S.    U.S. News & World Report

This Midtown hotel is every inch the bustling urban getaway, but thanks to designers Marvel and Meyer Davis it feels like an oasis in the heart of Manhattan. Photography: Arlo Hotels Photography: Arlo Hotels Photography: Arlo Hotels Photography: Arlo Hotels Photography: Arlo Hotels Photography: Arlo Hotels Arlo Midtown is the third addition to Arlo's New York portfolio, located between Times Square and the Hudson Yards neighbourhood. Its 489 rooms are designed to evoke calm, with a blue and grey colour palette, padded leather headboards and, if you're lucky, direct access onto a private, sunny outdoor terrace. Photography: Arlo Hotels Guests are greeted with more of a tropical atmosphere in the lo...

International airfares aside, the region that has long been a value-lover's paradise will once again offer a range of tempting bargains. GET THE TRAVEL DISPATCH NEWSLETTER    Essential news on the changing travel landscape, expert tips and inspiration for your future trips. The Asia travel pause at Kensington Tours, where monthly sales figures were recently up 80 percent over the same period in 2019, is officially over. Travelers are going to Thailand despite the rainy fall season. They're booking temple stays in South Korea. They're going to India at the last minute. "Vietnam is absolutely bananas," said Jessica Vandermey, a director of sales at Kensington Tours. "And I'm getting amazing reviews from clients being at Angkor Wat with a handful of people versus the masses." After a costly pause in travel that in some places stretched to more than two years, much of Asia is back. Though China remains closed to tourism and Japan has b...

June is the month of plenty. Waterfalls are in full flow, wildlife is abundant and the days are at their longest. Sandwiched between the May bank holidays and the packed peak of July and August, this month brings sunny settings without the cost or crowds. While some parts of the world are braced against hurricanes, monsoons and heat waves, the Northern Hemisphere is in its prime. Europe's pleasant days mean kicking back in piazzas and beer gardens and on sultry beaches. The southern Med is ripe for striking out on a Croatian sailing tour or crisscrossing the Cyclades. North of the Arctic Circle, the solstice ushers in brighter nights and scores of midsummer parties across Scandinavia. The dry season starts in safari spots across the globe like Uganda, Tanzania, Borneo and the Peruvian Amazon, making June an ideal time to view the Serengeti's Great Migration or orangutans swinging through Sabah rainforests. Meanwhile, as Arctic ice melts, cruises begin plying these remote wa...

The one narrative for the post-pandemic travel rebound that largely remains in dispute now some two and a half years later, fueling prognostications from all sides, is the recovery of business travel. Just as a flurry of new late summer forecasts for a full business recovery hit — again with no real consensus — a story was gaining a lot of attention that Google, once the giant of sending people out on the road in a Google-outsized kind of a way, was cutting back its travel budgets for what it called only "business critical" trips. It was just another piece of evidence for business travel doubters that the industry will never be restored to its glory days. That's because after a challenging couple of years (and counting in some countries) the business travel industry has been looking back, misty-eyed, to the better times of 2019, asking: When will it be like that again? More specifically it's been looking back at the $1.4 trillion that was spent...

WHITECOURT — A new physician is bringing improved access to care for local and area families. Dr. Osayande (Tesh) Oteghekpen, a family medicine physician, is providing care at Life Medical Clinic on 50th Avenue. He is accepting new patients and can be reached at (780) 706-7080. On August 1, 2022, Dr. Oteghekpen joined a team of 16 physicians providing services in Whitecourt. "Physicians are vital to the health of rural residents, and to the health of their communities," says Martin Long, MLA for West Yellowhead. "I am pleased to welcome Dr. Oteghekpen to Whitecourt." Dr. Oteghekpen comes to Whitecourt from the community of St Paul, where he also provided rural acute and emergency care to the patients of the community. Prior to that, Dr Oteghekpen was a Family Medicine Physician, offering his services both in person and via Telemedicine to community members in Yenagoa, Nigeria. Alberta Health Services (AHS) continues to recruit for physicians acro...

Money / Wealth JBCarvalho Photography / Getty Images/iStockphoto So much travel is done by airplane that it can be easy to forget about another fabulous way to take in the scenery — trains! See: Everything's Bigger in Texas — Including Taxes, Which Are Outpacing California Zelle Facebook Marketplace Scam: How To Recognize and Avoid This Scam Trains can provide a cushy experience like no other, with bedecked cabins, fancy dining carriages, 24-hour concierge service and again — incredible scenery, all over the world. Here we've lined up 11 of the most luxurious train rides, according to Travel + Leisure, that you can dream of taking … for the right price. Bonus Offer: Open a new Citi Pr...