tourism

Seaside Heights was once home to the wild antics of Snooki and The Situation, but the borough is looking to shed that image and become a more family-friendly destination.

There was a lot of doom and gloom about New Jersey's tourism outlook following Superstorm Sandy, but in reality 2013 ended up being a record-setting year -- in a good way.

It appears Superstorm Sandy didn't affect New Jersey's tourism dollars as many expected it would.

As the Jersey Shore gets ready for another post-Sandy tourism season, officials from the New Jersey Department of Transportation and Ocean County have hammered out construction plans for Route 35 for the summer season.

While the recovery from Superstorm Sandy continues, Memorial Day will be here before you know it and state tourism officials are hoping for a better season than last year.

A measure recently advanced by committees in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature would hike the minimum amount of funding devoted to the state's arts, historical and tourism organizations.

Some New Jersey tourism experts who testified before the Assembly Tourism and the Arts Committee Thursday, said the state's "Stronger than the Storm" campaign to drive people to the shore after Sandy would have been more helpful if it kicked off earlier.

Starting next April, United Airlines will offer non-stop service from Houston and Chicago to Atlantic City.

The Seaside Boardwalk Fire's effect on the 2014 tourism season is worrying local merchants, who dread the possibility of two slow summers.

In part four of our series Sandy: Then and Now, we look at how tourism was affected by the storm, and how it struggled to rebuild, both physically and metaphorically.