What is changing in a place, from access and rules to openings and seasons, and how to sell it now.
U.S. readers named Victoria the world's best small city for a fourth straight year. Four local hotels placed too, a ready-made shortlist for advisors.
Alicia Loveday · Oct 11, 2026 · 2 minDubai's latest 'what's next' list mixes open hotels with undated ones. What clients can book this winter, what's still unconfirmed, and the event dates for November.
Oman Hassan · Oct 8, 2026Below Saint Lucia, an underwater sculpture park off Canaries, is due to open this winter. It gives advisors a cultural dive product beyond the Pitons.
Jessie Isberg · Oct 8, 2026A monument near the B.C. Legislature lists some 25,000 uprooted Japanese Canadians and their children. It reopens to visitors in November, adding a heritage stop to Victoria itineraries.
Jessie Isberg · Oct 7, 2026Flair's weekly Vancouver–Guanajuato flight, launched 3 October, is Canada's first nonstop to Mexico's Bajío, putting San Miguel de Allende within one flight of the West Coast.
Switzerland Tourism is pushing architecture as a reason to travel, and the buildings work as a self-guided rail route if clients plan around seasonal closing dates.
The Art Gallery of Ontario opens a new modern wing and a full exhibition slate in 2027, giving advisors dated reasons to build Toronto culture trips from January to December.
Jessie Isberg · Oct 2, 2026Virtuoso's advisors rank Iceland No. 3 on the rise. With flat arrivals, less low-cost lift and a new Golden Circle fee coming, the case for selling beyond Reykjavík is stronger.
Andrew Lovesey · Oct 1, 2026Dubai is reopening its outdoor season and touring Canada next week. Canadian advisors pitching it must also present an elevated travel advisory and a recovery still under way.
Oman Hassan · Oct 1, 2026A year after the Grand Egyptian Museum opened, Egypt sits fourth on Virtuoso's rising list and new Nile ships are arriving. Advisors should hold 2027 cabins now.
Oman Hassan · Oct 1, 2026A stack of 2026 milestones, from Colonial Williamsburg's centennial to the Omni Homestead's 260th, gives advisors a dated reason to sell Virginia in the October–November shoulder season.
Lauren Smith · Oct 1, 2026Ottawa and the Northwest Territories have accepted the Mackenzie River’s nomination as a Canadian Heritage River. Each of…
Nine Marriott hotels in Mexico and the Caribbean have new rooms, restaurants or beach clubs, from an US$11…
Paradiso, the El Born bar behind a pastrami shop's fridge door, has won the Rémy Martin Legend of…
The government has ruled out charging overseas visitors at England's national museums. Inbound leaders now want the 28…
Market data, new hotels, where demand is moving, and the one story everyone in travel is talking about. Every Thursday morning.