Denise Wiggins Travel Services

We will for sure travel to faraway lands again ... in due time. Keep your travel dreams alive and start planning now where you wish to go, what you wish to see and what you wish to do.

' ... It's the reality we Americans are faced with for an unforeseeable period of time. We won't be able to cross into Canada and a slew of nations around the world. Click below to read more.

The TSA Just Announced This New Airport Security Requirement The TSA will now require travelers to separate snacks in clear plastic bags and put them in bins when going through security checkpoints. Watch video below and read article in comments.

/ , / Travel Market Report The Mexican Caribbean has begun gradual reopening to tourists on June 8, and is on track to have 75% of hotel rooms to be reopened by July 1.... The region currently has about 45% of inventory reopened, according to a Quintana Roo Tourism Board virtual conference last week. The Quintana Roo Tourism Board handles the marketing for 12 destinations under the umbrella of the Mexican Caribbean and the Grand Costa Maya, including Cancun, Riviera Maya, Tulum, Playa del Carmen, Isla Cozumel, Isla Mujeres, and Costa Mujeres. The region is using a traffic light system, said Dario Flota, Director of the Quintana Roo Tourism Board, featuring four stages: Red, Orange, Yellow, and Green. Quintana Roo is mostly in Orange phase, which means hotels, restaurants, amusement parks, transportation, and golf courses operate at 30% capacity. Beaches, nightlife and casinos, and conventions remain closed. According to Flota, these colors are reviewed every week, and the region will transition to the Yellow phase in one to two weeks, increasing capacity to 60%. Once the final Green phase is approved, sectors can once again operate at 100%. Air connectivity is beginning to recover. Southwest plans to relaunch flights to Cancun and San Jose del Cabo/Los Cabos July 1. United and American have already resumed daily flights to Mexico and Delta will restart daily flights from Atlanta to Cancun later this month. Canadian airlines scheduled to return in July, Flota said. The Cancun and Cozumel International Airports have both imposed increased sanitization, instillation of protective screens, social distancing at all security checkpoints and gates, and thermal cameras for passengers. A travel risk factor questionnaire will be given to all arrivals and departures. Cruise lines will also be steadily returning to the region, which welcomed over 7 million cruise passengers in 2019. Flota said since high-season for cruising is in the winter, from October to mid-April, when ports closed the season was thankfully already over. Holland American plans to start visiting ports July 1, followed by Disney Cruise Line on July 28 and MSC on July 31. Celebrity, Royal Caribbean, and NCL have all planned for an Aug. 1 return, and Viking and Carnival are slated for Sept. 1. Quintana Roo has seen a total of 2,329 COVID-19 cases. To facilitate confidence in travelers, the region has launched Clean & Safe Check Certification program, which covers all links on the chain for tourists, Flota said, not only including hotels and resorts but also transportation, attractions, tour operators, and other tourism sectors. Photo: Shutterstock.com

We will for sure travel to faraway lands again ... in due time. Keep your travel dreams alive and start planning now where you wish to go, what you wish to see and what you wish to do.

Did you know travel advisors, airline pilots and air agents use the military alphabet as part of their language when processing travel bookings, flights and flying airplanes? It assures we correctly identify important details directly related to our clients trips and flights. I’ve been in the industry 30+ years, so the global pandemic has me missing both my awesome clients and my alphabet ... luckily my new pillow gives me comfort and happiness. The day we all start traveling and seeing the world again will be ... echo xray charlie india tango india november golf Where will you travel to first when it’s safe to do so?

' ... It's the reality we Americans are faced with for an unforeseeable period of time. We won't be able to cross into Canada and a slew of nations around the world. Click below to read more.

The TSA Just Announced This New Airport Security Requirement The TSA will now require travelers to separate snacks in clear plastic bags and put them in bins when going through security checkpoints. Watch video below and read article in comments.

/ , / Travel Market Report The Mexican Caribbean has begun gradual reopening to tourists on June 8, and is on track to have 75% of hotel rooms to be reopened by July 1.... The region currently has about 45% of inventory reopened, according to a Quintana Roo Tourism Board virtual conference last week. The Quintana Roo Tourism Board handles the marketing for 12 destinations under the umbrella of the Mexican Caribbean and the Grand Costa Maya, including Cancun, Riviera Maya, Tulum, Playa del Carmen, Isla Cozumel, Isla Mujeres, and Costa Mujeres. The region is using a traffic light system, said Dario Flota, Director of the Quintana Roo Tourism Board, featuring four stages: Red, Orange, Yellow, and Green. Quintana Roo is mostly in Orange phase, which means hotels, restaurants, amusement parks, transportation, and golf courses operate at 30% capacity. Beaches, nightlife and casinos, and conventions remain closed. According to Flota, these colors are reviewed every week, and the region will transition to the Yellow phase in one to two weeks, increasing capacity to 60%. Once the final Green phase is approved, sectors can once again operate at 100%. Air connectivity is beginning to recover. Southwest plans to relaunch flights to Cancun and San Jose del Cabo/Los Cabos July 1. United and American have already resumed daily flights to Mexico and Delta will restart daily flights from Atlanta to Cancun later this month. Canadian airlines scheduled to return in July, Flota said. The Cancun and Cozumel International Airports have both imposed increased sanitization, instillation of protective screens, social distancing at all security checkpoints and gates, and thermal cameras for passengers. A travel risk factor questionnaire will be given to all arrivals and departures. Cruise lines will also be steadily returning to the region, which welcomed over 7 million cruise passengers in 2019. Flota said since high-season for cruising is in the winter, from October to mid-April, when ports closed the season was thankfully already over. Holland American plans to start visiting ports July 1, followed by Disney Cruise Line on July 28 and MSC on July 31. Celebrity, Royal Caribbean, and NCL have all planned for an Aug. 1 return, and Viking and Carnival are slated for Sept. 1. Quintana Roo has seen a total of 2,329 COVID-19 cases. To facilitate confidence in travelers, the region has launched Clean & Safe Check Certification program, which covers all links on the chain for tourists, Flota said, not only including hotels and resorts but also transportation, attractions, tour operators, and other tourism sectors. Photo: Shutterstock.com

I am a proud and established travel advisor ... I do what I do because I am passionate about serving and collaborating with my clients to fulfill their travel dreams successfully.

I'm honored to be a speaker on Travel Market Report's next Master Advisor Series session. This is an advisor-to-advisor conversation in sharing best practices and insights in doing our business. We are excitedly preparing for travel to re-open in the near future as we learn all that will be necessary to know to then share with our clients in our new environment of viruses and overall wellness of our world. We will travel again ... it may look and feel a bit different, but we will travel. :-)

/ , As Published in Travel Market Report The U.S. Department of State said this week that its passport services, which have been effectively suspended since March to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, will restart in phases, with regions getting different restart dates depending on local conditions.... We are continuously evaluating conditions at each of our locations and will resume operations in accordance with public health data for that region and with local government response measures, the State Dept. said in a release. We are working to resume normal operations in phases. Each passport agency and center will open on a different date based on local conditions. Phase One will have limited staff returning to work with a focus on life-or-death emergencies processed first. The Dept. is encouraging those who need to to wait to submit any passport renewal applications as delays will continue Phase Two will have most of the staff returning to war and applications will then be processed on a first in, first out basis starting the the oldest applications. All the rest of Passport Service staff will return to work during Phase Three. Staff will continue to work on applications on a first in, first out basis, though it will start offering expedited processing using the phase. The staggered phase plan is designed to help keep its employees and its customers safe. Normally, over 18 million passports are processed each year by the Dept., and once services do come back online the backlog of applications will force some significant delays for applicants. We are committed to working as hard as we can to process applications as quickly as possible, as soon as it is safe for us to do so.

A travel advisor story ...I'm in the home stretch! For over 4.5 months I've been closely monitoring and collaborating with all of my wonderful travel clients as we together learned to navigate our pandemic world. It's been a journey for them and for me. I had clients who were actually traveling when this was all unfolding and many more who were getting ready to depart. So many trips were paid-in-full and information was changing daily with governments, countries, the WHO,...Continue reading

A heartfelt video to share with my wonderful travel clients and all my friends around the globe. My heart is missing you all. I'm a traveler at heart and so are many of you. As an industry we're behind-the-scenes bravely and proudly handling all our clients cancellations. It means no incoming money for the work we're doing that has and continues to include countless hours, days and week processing endless cancellation procedures and policies. But, I promise you, we do it ...ever so gladly because, like you, we wish to serve you exactly how we would wish to be served as well. So until the day returns and we can embrace Mother Earth with love, laughter, respect and travel visits, let's keep travel alive by sharing on social media where we have traveled and where we look forward to traveling. #togetherintravel P.S. Narration by the dreamy voice of Jude Law.

It's a whole new world when you go back to flying and will certainly be updating/changing often, but here's a flavor of how things will start looking!

Breaking Travel News: Mandatory Masks on JetBlue

We may not be flying as travelers these days, but look to the skies tomorrow for a chance to see these elite jets give a salute to our frontline responders!