2013 › January

This report shows that the gap is widening between the digitally savvy hotels with lots of resources, and independent hotels -- especially those that are privately held

The most likely future for hotel Wi-Fi is the tiered pricing plan: Get low-bandwidth surfing for free or cheap and pay more for data hogging activities like Netfilx streaming or video conferencing.

Overall a good effort from a pure technology integration point of view, but leaves a lot to be desired from user experience design and emotional quotient perspective.

The desire to get up close and personal with wildlife often results in bizarre encounters like this where visitors pose with the creatures, toss them back in the holding pens, then go eat one of their cousins in a nearby cafeteria.

Facebook's success with Graph Search depends entirely upon users' willingness to share as much as they currently do, and then some. Whether or not that will continue to be the case is still to be determined.

This is a smart move from JetBlue which by virtue of being the biggest domestic into the big U.S. international hub of JFK, is strategically placed very well with these real codeshare agreements.

A number of startups are trying to make flight comparison easier with pinning and saving, but Google Flight Search's update is a good model for a seamless regional search.

Before almost going bust in 2007, Dubai knew what it took to drive visits and interest, and bold displays like this demonstrate it hasn't lost its taste for unlimited ambition and soaring heights.

Frontier Airlines' restructuring was a drag on the low-cost carriers' job increases as Spirit, Virgin America and Allegiant all posted double-digit gains.

JetBlue hasn't done itself any favors with business travelers by waiting for so long to get its Wi-Fi going. The enhanced functionality had better live up to what the airline is promising.