Nicki Grossman

Por primera vez desde 2002 la frecuencia de viajes en el Día de Acción de Gracias va a disminuir como resultado de la crisis económica, pronosticaron dos importantes empresas turísticas estadounidenses. Esta es la cuarta vez en la que disminuyen los...

In today's tough travel market, South Florida hotels are getting aggressive to lure more groups and meetings to fill rooms. Associations and other groups plan big meetings often a year in advance, so hotels already have those major events booked. Now,...

Hurt by a slow economy, Thanksgiving travel will dip for the first time since 2002, two top U.S. travel groups forecast Tuesday. It would be the fourth straight holiday travel decline this year. The biggest drop will come for those traveling by plane...

There was a party every night. A velvet rope, an out-of-town DJ, a visiting drag queen. There were over-the-top nightclubs that reinvented life after dark. If you were gay and looking to be part of the South Florida scene 10 years ago, South Beach didn'...

So some politicians and tourism officials aren???t ready to give up on keeping the nearly 50-year-old tradition of spring training at Fort Lauderdale Stadium. But are you? Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle, Broward County Mayor Lois Wexler, and Greater...

Broward County commissioners sought Tuesday to stem the impact Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle's spate of inflammatory comments about homosexuality could have on the area's $1 billion-a-year gay tourism business. Using words such as bigoted and...

Gay and lesbian residents asked Mayor Jim Naugle to resign Tuesday, as anger about the mayor's recent comments grows into a civic movement.About 40 people wearing yellow "Flush Naugle" T-shirts rallied outside City Hall on Tuesday, preface to a much...

When Colorado voters wiped out legal protections for gays, Aspen's annual gay ski week suffered. A similar boycott ensued when the Cayman Islands turned away a shipload of gay cruise passengers.Tourism officials doubt if such a fate awaits Fort Lauderdale...

The leadership of Broward County's multibillion-dollar tourism industry demanded Thursday that Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle stop his attacks on homosexuality even as he pressed them to change a marketing campaign meant to attract gay tourists. They...

Cafe Maxx in Pompano Beach has the kind of reputation that any restaurant would covet. Four star food. Stellar service. There's only one problem. "People perceive us a little more expensive and little bit more formal than we are," says co-owner Darrel...

Saturday night had edged into Sunday morning, and most of the patrons at Boom were propped languidly against the bar and walls when Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" suddenly blared from the speakers. As if on cue, nearly everyone in the Fort Lauderdale...

Canadians, New Yorkers and other snowbirds are shouldering a larger and larger share of the tax burden to pay for law enforcement, fire protection, schools, libraries and parks in Broward County. Unprotected by state laws that shield full-time...