WHY IT RATES: Travel advisors will hear from ALG Vacations’ new vice president of marketing, Anna Maria Addesso.—Donald Wood, Breaking News Senior Writer. ALG Vacations (ALGV), an industry-leading ...

Vacation planning often comes with a familiar challenge: where will we eat? Finding spots that satisfy everyone’s cravings ...

The vacation rental management company Vacasa and Island Real Estate of Anna Maria Island, Inc. recently entered into a partnership that will bring Vacasa’s services, such as booking technology, to ...

Anna Maria resident Amy Tripp likes vacation rentals, but when it comes to regulating them, she wants it to remain local. So when a bill was filed in the Florida Senate by Sen. Greg Steube that ...

Anna Maria Island residents have been following a bill Sen. Greg Steube filed regarding vacation rentals. Herald file photo [email protected] A state Senate committee has significantly altered a ...

The bone-white, sugary sand whistles underneath my bare feet as I walk along Bean Point, a secluded broad beach dotted with dunes and tucked away on the northern tip of Anna Maria Island. It’s 7:30 in ...

With lodging costing an average $294 per night for its most affordable double room, Anna Maria Island was Florida’s most expensive spring destination and fifth overall in the United States, according ...

When James and Amy Bezet moved from Louisiana to Florida in 2002, they bought a home in Lakewood Ranch and began searching for a place where they and their four children and their families could ...