Eye on Travel – Acqualina Resort & Residences in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida – January 25, 2025

This week’s broadcast of Eye on Travel is from Acqualina Resort & Residences in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. I have all the travel updates, including whether the new passenger and traveler protection rules proposed by the Department of Transportation and the Federal Trade Commission will survive the incoming Trump administration, and the latest on the investigation of the Jeju Air crash in Korea, which only gets more puzzling. Zane Kerby, President & CEO of the American Society of Travel Advisors, discusses the ever growing, near monopoly of the airline industry, and how your flights and fare choices may be affected under the new administration. Longtime NBC News correspondent Kerry Sanders, gets real about our innate desire to travel and the zen of checking bags. And then a look at Acqualina and Sunny Isles with CEO Deborah Yager Fleming, on her definition of luxury travel and the real significance of adult only pools. Acqualina’s Il Mulino Chef Michele Mazza, on the seasonality and sourcing of great food, and the one item Il Mulino will never serve. Acqualina Concierge Randy Ross on unusual guest requests, and Spa Director Catherine Davalle on their different approach to treatment. Finally, Seth Bramson, Miami Historian and Author of From Sandbar to Sophistication: The Story of Sunny Isles Beach, on the stories — and the myths of Sunny Isles. There’s all this and more on this week’s Eye on Travel from the Acqualina Resort and Residences in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.