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Travel ahead of the Easter holiday weekend is piling up in the United Kingdom as about 11 million people have planned a trip, including 2.6 million expected to take the road Friday, the BBC reports.

Complications began as a weather system dubbed Storm Nelson hit Northern Ireland and the south of England and caused disruption among airlines and rail operators. The port of Dover is also experiencing two-hour wait times as long lines of cars are waiting to board ferries.

"Manchester Airport said it was preparing for about 320,000 passengers this weekend, 8% more than the equivalent last year," the BBC reports.

A recent survey shows just how much the perception of San Francisco has tarnished tourism in cities outside of the Bay Area, SF Gate reports.

One of the telling questions in the survey, funded by the city's tourism board, asked whether the city's poor perception factored into people's trip planning.

"A striking number of respondents, nearly half in some cases, agreed that San Francisco’s woes have made visiting a county like Sonoma unattractive, even though it’s 45 miles away and vastly different from the city," SF Gate reports.

Despite thousands of miles in between as well as cultural differences and geopolitical challenges, women in hospitality roles across the U.S., Europe, Asia and Africa all carry the same goal of being hospitable, HNN's Dana Miller reports.

For example, Valentina De Santis, owner of luxury boutique hotel Passalacqua in Moltrasio, Italy, said she's carrying on a three-generation legacy within the hotel industry.

"Hospitality has always been a family affair for us, and not just in the sense that I am the third generation to run our hotel group. Hospitality in our family has always been a very intimate and very real thing. We understand it as opening our home, but also opening the doors of our hearts to the guests, inviting everyone who stays with us to experience our world, our values and our culture firsthand," she said.

A new law in Florida called the Resiliency and Safe Structures Act allows for the demolition of buildings that are deemed unsafe in high-risk coastal flood zones and do not meet the base flood elevation requirements, the New York Times reports.

The law comes a few years after the deadly collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo. Critics, however, say many of Miami's historical and iconic buildings, such as the oceanfront Eden Roc Hotel, that add to the city's distinct look are at risk of being demolished.

"In Miami Beach, the endangered properties are concentrated among the Miami Modernist, or MiMo-style resorts along Collins Avenue in the Mid Beach and North Beach neighborhoods, such as the Faena, Casablanca, Carillon, Sherry Frontenac, Edition hotels, as well as a handful of Art Deco buildings in the South-of-Fifth neighborhood, such as the Savoy Hotel," the New York Times reports.

With social media now acting as a source of travel information among foreign tourists and government agencies, destinations such as Japan have sought out influencers to promote tourism, The Japan Times reports.

Japan has set a goal to welcome 60 million inbound tourists in 2030 by attracting more repeat visitors and promoting spots that are less-visited, according to the article. The Japan National Tourism Organization has been working with influencers to promote Japan for years.

“People look at official government campaigns, such as advertisements put out by JNTO, and they think 'of course they wouldn’t say bad things about this place ... that it is dangerous and so on.' But influencers are independent and post about things that they think are interesting from their own perspective. Even if people know JNTO is sponsoring the post, they tend to feel there is less bias in the content, which is the strength of influencer marketing that we are trying to utilize," Hideki Tomioka, JNTO’s executive director on overseas promotion, told the news outlet.

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