Travel + Leisure magazine names best hotels

NEW YORK—Fifty hotels made their debut on Travel + Leisure magazine’s annual list of the 500 best hotels in the world.
The list, which appears in full in the magazine’s January issue, is based on ratings from the magazine’s annual readers’ survey.
Among the properties appearing on the list for the first time were the Viceroy Santa [...]

Auckland Airport Has First Domestic Travel Decline in 19 Months

by Gavin Evans
Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) — Auckland International Airport Ltd., New Zealand’s largest, reported its first decline in domestic passenger traffic in 19 months as the nation’s slowing economy reduces corporate and leisure travel.
The airport hosted 470,960 domestic travelers in November, 4 percent less than a year earlier and the first year-on-year decline since April [...]