The End of Cruise West? The travel agent’s dilemma

After rumors of financial issues for months, Cruise West has stopped taking reservations, and they are terminating a world cruise partway through the sailing. (There is a story that the ship just put some people ashore in Canada.) A recording on their phone number...

Is TourTech’s collapse the first domino of 2009?

No one in the travel industry denies these are tough times, and many observers have openly wondered how many U.S. airlines will survive. But tour operators are also vulnerable, and on January 21, the industry lost a good one. TourTech International, a mostly upscale...