NYC & Company, New York City’s destination marketing organisation and convention & visitors bureau, has reappointed The Walshe Group as the representative agency for Australia and New Zealand, handling sales, marketing, travel trade and public relations in the region.

Arrive at New York’s Penn Station and expect delightful surprises. First, if this is your first visit this year, you will not recognise the rail station. Penn Station’s arrivals area, the Moynihan Train Hall, opened 1st January 2021. Named in honour of the late Daniel Moynihan, the Senator who first proposed building on the site of the century-old James A. Farley Post Office Building, the gigantic US$1.6 billion glass and steel space is an artwork by architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, SOM.

New York State Division of Tourism (I Love New York) has launched an agent training incentive, encouraging travel advisors to register for its online training and brush up on their knowledge of New York State as international travel restarts.

Singapore Airlines has forged a new partnership with health and wellness retreat Golden Door to introduce a fresh line-up of health-focused meals, exercise and wellbeing options to customers on flights between Singapore and the US.

New York’s icon, The Carlyle, a Rosewood Hotel, is so called because when it was being built, in 1930, Diana Ginsberg Jaffe, daughter of the developer, Moses Ginsberg, was reading all-round British brain, Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881. (Interestingly, Carlyle’s best-known work, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, is just as relevant today – and, inter alia, he inspired the mathematical term ‘Carlyle Circle’, which surely would make a great name for a loyalty following.)

Crystal Cruises has become the first cruise line to resume cruising from New York City, with Crystal Symphony sailing to Bermuda as part of a series of nine week-long roundtrip voyages from the Big Apple.

American Express this week reopened its new Centurion Lounge at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.

Corinthia Hotels has announced its entry into the North American market, unveiling plans to add luxury upper East Side hotel, The Surrey, to its collection.

After a five-year hiatus, United Airlines will resume services out of New York’s JFK Airport from 1 February, 2021, offering transcontinental nonstop flights to the west coast.

American Express has officially opened a Centurion Lounge at New York JFK Airport’s Terminal 4. At 1,400 square metres, the new space is the 13th and largest Centurion Lounge yet and the first with two guest floors.

Merlin Entertainments has postponed the opening of the new LEGOLAND New York Resort until next year. The family attraction was preparing for a launch on 4 July 2020.