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Locals have long professed their love for Tampa International Airport, but one ranking has officially moved TPA up to first class. The Wall Street Journal called Tampa International the best among midsize airports in its annual survey ranking the best large and midsize airports in the country. The results were released Wednesday. To read more of Brandon Meyer's article, Click [...]

More than a century after Plant died, historians are still uncovering information about the man who was instrumental in Tampa’s development. To honor him, the Henry B. Plant Museum on the University of Tampa campus will host a special lecture and book signing, and, of course, serve birthday cake on October 27 at 2 p.m. [...]

MSC Cruises, a Switzerland-based cruise line, announced Thursday that it will add Tampa as a new homeport starting in November 2020. To read more about the advantages in Brent Ward's article, Click Here!

Marriott International, the world's largest hotel chain, said Wednesday it will eliminate small plastic bottles of shampoo, conditioner and bath gel from its hotel rooms worldwide by December 2020. They'll be replaced with larger bottles or wall-mounted dispensers, depending on the hotel. Read more on how they plan to accomplish this task, Click Here!

As tourism analyst Chris Klauda was on her way from Tennessee to Tampa, she chatted with a fellow traveler: "a classic millennial." "She told me Tampa was the new Miami," Klauda said during a Thursday morning presentation to a group of Hillsborough County hoteliers. To Read more on this, Click Here!

Now that the hotel industry has largely embraced bans on plastic straws, one major hotel group aims to eliminate the next set of plastic targets: mini bottles of shampoo, conditioner, lotion and the like. To read more about the steps they are willing to take, Click Here!

If Orlando-based lawyer John Morgan has his way, millions of Florida workers could be getting a raise. To read more about how he is going to accomplish this, Click Here!

Three weeks ahead of schedule, Coastal Construction paused Wednesday to mark the topping off of the 26-story JW Marriott hotel in Water Street Tampa and serve the 400 construction workers on the job a lunch of barbecued pork and chicken. To read more on the their progress, Click Here!  

More than 30 years later, the Seminoles and executives Hard Rock International paused to mark how far they've come together. A $720 million expansion of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa is scheduled to be done Oct. 3, with a celebratory concert by country music superstar Keith Urban in the casino's new event [...]