Venice Expands Day-Tripper Access Fee to 54 Days for 2025
Venice's 2025 access fee covers 54 days at €5 standard and €10 late-booked, with registration required even for exempt hotel guests. Here is what changes for planners.
Travel, Hospitality & Restaurants
The latest travel, hospitality & restaurants journalism from the publications of the VUGA Enterprises Network — refreshed around the clock. Every headline opens the full story at its source.
Page 10 of 10 · Updated 17 Oct 2026, 00:23 UTC
RevPAR, ADR, GOPPAR: what each metric actually tells an operator
RevPAR measures demand, ADR measures price and mix, GOPPAR measures profit per available room. Here is how the three read together, with the diagnostic pairings operators use monthly.
How Airlines Build a Fare: The Five Levers Behind Every Ticket Price
Fare buckets, hub premiums, and booking windows — the five levers that set ticket prices, from BTS and DOT data.
Rocky Mountain National Park Brings Back Timed Entry for 2024
Timed entry ran May 24–October 20, 2024 at Rocky Mountain National Park, with two permit types — and the Bear Lake corridor version is the one planners get wrong.
Mexico City: Where the Mercado Still Sets the Table
Mexico City's 300-plus public markets anchor a cuisine UNESCO recognized in 2010. A source-built guide to San Juan, La Merced, and Coyoacán — hours, dishes, and a day plan.
How to Bring Textiles Home Without a Customs Surprise
The $800 traveler exemption, duty on textiles above it, and the three checks to make before you buy — from CBP's official guidance, checked 2025.
Lisbon: Where to Stay, Eat, and Shop in Alfama
A sourced guide to Lisbon's oldest quarter: where to stay, eat, and shop in Alfama, with transit connections, criteria, and planning notes for 2024.
FAA Automatic Refund Rules Mark One Year as Airlines Rewrite Fare Displays
Automatic cash refunds and upfront fee disclosure have been law since late 2024 — what works, what lags, and what travelers should document.
How to Get a Half Dome Permit in 2025
About 225 day hikers a day get up the Half Dome cables. The preseason lottery runs March 1–31, 2025, with a daily lottery backup — dates, fees, odds, and the wilderness-permit side door.
Paris: How to Buy and Use Metro Tickets for a City Break
A dated breakdown of what single fares, the Navigo Easy card, and the Paris Visite pass cost and cover, straight from the region's transit operators.
AI waste-tracking cameras in hotel kitchens: what the savings claims actually show
A camera-and-scale system now running in more than a thousand hotel kitchens promises double-digit cuts to food cost. Here is what is vendor-reported, what independent reporting confirms, and what it means for F&B margins.
Amsterdam: Where to Shop in the Nine Streets
A walkable canal-belt grid of independent shops, chosen for location, walkability, and category variety as listed on August 20, 2026.
Service charges are not tips: what three federal rulebooks require of hotels
A mandatory resort, banquet or room service charge is wages under Labor Department rules, non-tip income under IRS reporting, and part of the advertised total price under the FTC fee rule that took effect in May 2025.
What to Know Before You Visit a US National Park as a Nonresident in 2026
A $100 per-person surcharge now applies at 11 of the busiest US national parks. Here is who pays, who is exempt, and when the $250 nonresident annual pass is the cheaper route.
How to Get a Half Dome Permit in Yosemite
Yosemite issues roughly 300 Half Dome permits a day, and most hikers land theirs months ahead through a preseason lottery. Here's how the lottery, the daily backup drawing, and the backpacker add-on actually work.
The VUGA Enterprises Newsroom aggregates headlines and short excerpts from the newspapers and magazines of the VUGA Enterprises Network. Every headline links to the full story on the publishing site. Part of the VUGA Network.