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by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 11:25 AM ET, Tue October 7, 2025 Premium guided travel operator Tauck has enhanced its Advisor Rewards Program, offering more flexibility and value. Travel advisors can now combine points earned across multiple years, and can redeem up to 100 points each year, which is equivalent to $20,000 in travel. Earned points remain valid for up to two years.  The new changes should make it easier for advisors to redeem their hard-earned trips and experience Tauck for themselves. “The Advisor Rewards Program has always been about empowering our partners to truly know Tauck by experiencing it themselves,” said…

Tesla has spent more than a year teasing that “more affordable models” of its vehicles were on the way, and on Tuesday, the company finally revealed them. The company is now selling a more bare-bones version of the Model 3 sedan and the Model Y SUV, which start at $36,990 and $39,990, respectively. The new versions, each dubbed “Standard,” get an estimated 321 miles of range on a full battery, and will come with fewer features than the more premium rear-wheel or all-wheel drive variants when they ship later this year. They don’t even have Autopilot, the company’s basic advanced…

by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 11:25 AM ET, Tue October 7, 2025 AmaWaterways is offering three new dates for its popular Latin Touch sailings in 2026, in an effort to meet the growing demand for river cruises among Spanish-speaking travelers.The 2026 departures include “Melodies of the Danube” (June 21-28), “Wonders of Colombia” (October 21-28) and “Magic of Colombia” (October 31-November 7). The voyages feature the line’s river cruise itineraries with a Spanish-language focus and programming that celebrates Latin culture. Each sailing has a Spanish-speaking cruise director, guided tours in Spanish, daily programs and menus in Spanish, and select onboard entertainment…

Otter.ai CEO Sam Liang isn’t satisfied with the company being viewed, and used, as just a meeting notetaker. Liang wants Otter.ai to become a go-to source for enterprises and a new batch of products released Tuesday is the first step in that evolution. The Silicon Valley-based AI meeting assistant startup on Tuesday released a new suite of tools for enterprises designed to better incorporate data from meetings into other workflows by funneling that information to a central knowledge base. The aim is to grow Otter’s business by helping companies get more out of the meetings they record. Otter’s new product…

A custom study by MMGY Travel Intelligence– commissioned by the Globus family of brands – reveals that guided tours have arrived as the future of travel.The study revealed nearly three-quarters of Gen X (74 percent) and Younger Boomer (71 percent) travelers embrace guided vacations – a powerful shift in how the next generation wants to see and experience the world. Steve Born, chief marketing officer for the Globus family of brands said in a statement, “At the root of this study is a clear truth: travelers want flexibility and ease. “We believe freedom and ease should always travel together. Our…

Google is expanding access to Opal, its AI vibe-coding app, to 15 more countries. The app, which lets you create mini web apps using text prompts, is now available in Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Singapore, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panamá, Honduras, Argentina, and Pakistan. “When we opened up Opal to users in the U.S. we anticipated they might build simple, fun tools,” said Megan Li, a senior product manager at Google Labs, in a blog post. “We didn’t expect the surge of sophisticated, practical and highly creative Opal apps we got instead. The ingenuity of these…

In Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” when a mysterious missile launches from the Pacific and begins bearing down on the Midwest, the biggest threat initially at the White House is a pile of paper work.The ho-hum response that kicks off Bigelow’s firecracker of a film is quickly shattered. But that transition from routine to imminent danger, replayed three times over in this “Rashomon” meets “Dr. Strangelove,” is the defining register of Bigelow’s urgent, if heavy-handed nuclear wake-up call.Words across the screen open the film, noting that global powers once worked to decrease nuclear weapons. “That era is now over,”…

by Brian Major Last updated: 12:30 PM ET, Tue October 7, 2025 The Cayman Islands Department of Tourism (CIDOT) is redefining what a holiday getaway should be with “Welcome to vaCay” a global marketing campaign that emphasizes an antidote to over-scheduled, exhausting vacations.Citing recent data that shows that four in 10 American travelers return home needing a “vacation from their vacation,” while 60% admit they sacrifice rest on vacation by trying to do it all, the CIDO program offers an alternative. Vacations under the Welcome to vcCay platform feature days that unfold naturally, luxury without pretension and world-class dining amidst the…

After AMD and OpenAI announced an expanded partnership on Monday, the chatter immediately turned to the unusual way OpenAI would pay for its AMD purchases. It will use AMD’s own stock to do so.  To recap: OpenAI has agreed to help AMD refine its line of Nvidia competitor chips, the Instinct GPUs, as well as to purchase and deploy 6 gigawatts of compute capacity from AMD over multiple years. AMD said this deal is worth billions in revenue.  But OpenAI isn’t paying for this out of its own revenues. Instead AMD has granted OpenAI a boatload of stock warrants — up to 160 million AMD shares — which will vest in tranches as certain milestones…

Travelers who require accessibility accommodations might have a smoother journey on their next flight, thanks to Emirates’ newest services. The Dubai-based carrier has just launched a host of new accommodations and products for travelers with accessibility needs, from neurodivergence to limited mobility. The new services, which the airline announced at the AccessAbilities Expo in Dubai, are available along each step of the journey, from booking travel to arriving at the airport and on board the plane. Here’s a look at all of the improvements the airline will begin offering this fall.New accessibility services during travel bookingTravelers in the planning stages of…