The drama between Walt Disney World Resort and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continues and takes an even stranger turn as the popular park invokes an eccetric clause about the monarchy of the United Kingdom in order to keep control of the Reedy Creek Improvement District. Read the complicated developments here.?

About fifteen percent of Cancun's naturally forming cenotes have registered high level contamination levels and poor water quality, largely in part due to improperly discarded wastewater and an abandoned dump site on Isla Mujeres, creating concern.

According to booking data from AAA, demand for international travel has increased 200 percent from last year, with Europe and Canada taking the top spots for American travelers. The most popular city to visit? London, which has seen a stunning 350 percent increase from last year, partly due to the upcoming coronation of King Charles III.

Following the news that demand to travel to the U.S. within the next year by international travelers dropped 30 percent, the U.S. Travel Association outlines some steps the country should take to increase international tourism, including making it easier for travelers from certain countries to obtain visitor visas.

While the Caribbean's travel industry has been strongly outpacing pre-pandemic trends for months, the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association released a report that identified ¡°airlift cost and availability, taxes and duties, labor shortages, crime and safety, and poor infrastructure,¡± as threats that could curb the positive current trends.

Following a truly record-breaking few months, Jamaica is investing another $70 million to improve its tourism infrastructure at Sangster International Airport, on top of the already approved $70 million improvement project that is currently underway at the airport.

The Hawaiian government is considering a new tourism fee plan that will hold the 9 to 10 million annual visitors to the state more responsible for protecting and sustaining its critical environments like coral reefs and dolphin habitats. Under the plan, which isn't yet approved, a visitor would have to pay for an annual license to visit Hawaii's protected areas.

When destinations in Europe are seeing tourism numbers 25 percent lower than in 2019, the Caribbean is surging back in full force, reaching only 1 percent lower than in 2019. Some destinations, such as Jamaica, are seeing record numbers of visitors far exceeding the pre-pandemic average.

St. Maarten renewed its agreement with the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association as one of only three destinations to hold the Presidential Partner membership title. The agreement will aid the country in providing cruise industry-specific employment opportunities, among other benefits.

Outdoor lovers should check out our latest guide on which national parks will require prior reservations this spring and summer. Some include Arches National Park, Glacier National Park and Haleakala National Park.

Popular destinations across the Gulf of Mexico are expecting high levels of a strange natural phenomenon: sargassum, or seaweed. USF's Optical Oceanography Lab expects the region to see record levels of sargassum, weighing 13 million tons. The seaweed blooms are, of course, impacted by rising water temperatures.

Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority released a report this April showcasing how it reached record visitor spending totals in 2022, up 24.7 percent from 2019. The total? A staggering $79.3 billion.

International visitors to the United States are spending a record amount of money while here, according to the National Travel and Tourism Office. This February alone, they spent $16.9 billion, a whopping 64 percent increase from February 2022.

Following the new restrictions on travelers to Venice, the northern Alps region of Trentino-Alto Adige, which borders Austria, Switzerland and Lichtenstein, announced it too would restrict tourism numbers in a few different methods, including restricting the number of Airbnbs, vacation rentals and day-trippers.

Ever wonder how the legalization of recreational marijuana might impact an already tourism-heavy destination like Hawaii? In this feature, TravelPulse explores some of the benefits and issues facing this proposed law.

Data released in April by the U.S. Travel Association finds that total direct spending on travel within the nation reached $1.2 trillion in 2022, similar to pre-pandemic levels. Reasons for this rise include domestic leisure and business travel, international inbound travel and inflation.

Arrivals into Luis Mu?oz Mar¨ªn International Airport in Puerto Rico are up 21 percent during the first quarter of the year from the same period last year, showcasing the rise in popularity and air connectivity to the territory, which is bringing more Americans and Canadians to the island for vacations and cruises.

Jamaica has seen a 94.4 percent increase in visitor totals during January through March 2023 when compared with the same period back in 2022, welcoming 1.18 million travelers. That's nearly double what the popular island welcomed last year, which is causing tourism infrastructure issues.

Two bills in the Hawaiian State Senate and House of Representatives would fold the Hawaiian Tourism Authority into the governmental structure and change its leadership, a move that the organization says would bring politics back to the agency, which left the governmental structure twenty-five years ago for that reason.

Indonesia, home to the beautiful destination of Bali, is considering implementing a tourism tax as a way to target more responsible and less unruly tourists. As it remains one of the cheapest international destinations to visit, this has been an issue in the country for awhile.

Turkey is struggling to recover its tourism industry following February's devastating earthquake that left hundreds of thousands of people homeless and 50,000 people dead. Read the full numbers and impact here.