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St. Thomas University soccer player Ricky Martinez, 22, balances a soccer ball on his head earlier this year while he and others wait to enter the new FIFA World Cup store on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach.<\/p>\n
Carl Juste<\/p>\n
Miamoi Herald File<\/p>\n
South Florida is at the center of major travel news as World Cup rental demand inceases and JetBlue\u2019s expands its footprint in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a quick digest of the top travel stories:<\/p>\n
World Cup rentals booming: Short-term rental reservations in South Florida are increasaing ahead of World Cup matches at Hard Rock Stadium, with the Colombia vs. Portugal match on June 27 driving a 106% booking increase in Miami compared to 2025, according to data analytics firm AirDNA<\/a>. The Miami-Fort Lauderdale area ranks sixth among all host cities for the tournament.JetBlue\u2019s Fort Lauderdale hub: JetBlue is making Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport a hub in 2026, with plans to grow from 108 daily flights to about 150 by February 2027, President Marty St. George told the Miami Herald<\/a>. The airline has been hiring crew members from the defunct Spirit Airlines and expanding its pilot base at FLL.New Caracas route: JetBlue plans to start nonstop flights from Fort Lauderdale to Caracas<\/a> before the end of the year, marking its first-ever service to Venezuela. The airline would be the third U.S. carrier to resume Venezuela flights following the U.S. military\u2019s removal of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in January.<\/p>\n This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence and using our own originally reported, written and published content. It was reviewed and edited by our journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Thomas University soccer player Ricky Martinez, 22, balances a soccer ball on his head earlier this year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-289081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}