Today, Baha Mar announces the return of the highly anticipated Bahamas Culinary & Arts Festival, taking place from October 21–25, 2026 at the luxury resort destination. Now entering its fifth year, the festival continues to evolve as one of the region’s premier celebrations of culinary excellence, artistic expression, and Bahamian culture.

As the summer solstice approaches, bringing the longest day of the year on June 21st, travellers are increasingly looking for destinations that make the most of Europe’s extended daylight hours. Riviera Travel’s latest booking data reveals that demand is heavily concentrated around scenic European escapes, with just 15 top-performing European itineraries accounting for 50% of all recent website bookings. Growing appetite for picturesque landscapes heroes’ destinations such as Lake Como, Provence, Paris, and the Douro Valley, underlining strong appetite for scenic European escapes that come into their own in the golden light of solstice.

Rhoda Magbitang, Executive Chef of Mauna Lani, Auberge Collection’s iconic oceanfront restaurant CanoeHouse in Hawai’i, has been announced the season 23 winner of Bravo’s Top Chef, cementing her place as one of the country’s most extraordinary culinary talents. To celebrate the milestone, Chef Magbitang will host a series of exclusive culinary collaborations across select Auberge Collection destinations, bringing her award-winning cuisine to life with guest chefs and collaborators.

The U.K. travel market reached a record £56.6 billion in gross bookings in 2025, driven by strong demand and Europe’s highest online penetration rate at 90%, according to a new report from Phocuswright. The findings come ahead of Phocuswright Europe, taking place June 15 to 17 in Barcelona, where global travel leaders will address the major forces shaping travel to and from Europe.  Despite the growth, Phocuswright’s new U.K. Travel Market Essentials 2026 report finds that the country’s distribution landscape has settled into a stable pattern.  Online travel agency (OTA) share has declined for three consecutive years, while supplier direct gains remain modest.

Visit Maldives Corporation (VMC) held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 9 June 2026 at Meeruma Hall, reporting its strongest financial performance in eight years and highlighting a year marked by tourism growth, strengthened governance, and expanded international destination marketing activities. During the meeting, shareholders reviewed and approved the Corporation’s Annual Report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025.

FLYR, the Offer & Order platform for airlines, today announced a strategic partnership with Res2, the company behind iPort, a modern airport delivery management system deployed at more than 500 airports worldwide. Together, the two companies are investing to accelerate the deployment of Order-based Delivery, providing a strong, independent Departure Control System (DCS) option that eases the transition to a modular, Order-based technology stack.