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Online Travel

TripAdvisor: A user’s guide to navigating the reviews swarm

With millions of hotel reviews written by travelers, TripAdvisor has a wealth of information about choosing a place to stay, but you have to know what to look for in the reviews and what to discard.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

TripAdvisor: A user’s guide to navigating the reviews swarm

Hotels

The hotel spa industry well on way to recovery as it learns to diversify

The growth of ancillary revenues in all sectors of travel also means hotels are beginning to look at spas as bigger sources of revenues going ahead.

Skift | 11 years ago

The hotel spa industry well on way to recovery as it learns to diversify

Airlines

The secret to American Airlines’ customer service success on Twitter

American's social media team has accomplished something impressive by making the airline look good despite the challenges the airline faces both from within and without.

Jason Clampet, Skift | 11 years ago

The secret to American Airlines’ customer service success on Twitter

Tourism

Rebuild-vs.-retreat debate raging in badly damaged Sandy areas

Most of these badly damaged areas were coasts, which were supported in large part by entertainment attractions and tourism dollars. The equation to consider if way more complex than just rational worsening climate change-led decisions.

Wayne Parry, Associated Press | 11 years ago

Rebuild-vs.-retreat debate raging in badly damaged Sandy areas

Tourism

Dubai’s back to its crazy ways, but it may not get out of hand this time

So is the hope, that recent history has taught it some lessons, and the long term prospects of a stable emirate in a volatile region will continue the upwards rise.

Dana El Baltaji, Bloomberg | 11 years ago

Dubai’s back to its crazy ways, but it may not get out of hand this time

Tourism

British tourist in Bali sentenced to death for cocaine possession

Sandiford's case is an odd one in which she admits to doing everything wrong that a tourist could do wrong, like taking a package from a stranger and not looking inside. Her last hope is if Bali authorities commute the sentence.

Associated Press | 11 years ago

Airlines

Virgin Atlantic’s new Gallery in the Air isn’t as exciting as it sounds

The concept might procure images of champagne-sipping flyers browsing fine art, but in reality the pieces by street artist Ben Eine are located in airport lodges and only available for in-flight purchase.

John O'Ceallaigh, The Daily Telegraph | 11 years ago

Virgin Atlantic’s new Gallery in the Air isn’t as exciting as it sounds

Hotels

What it’s like when the police bust a meth lab in the motel where you’re staying

The meth math adds up correctly: Rural motel meets long-term tenants meets ingeniously used coffee maker. It's a motel guest's and owner's nightmare in miniature.

Tomoya Shimura, Victorville Daily Press | 11 years ago

What it’s like when the police bust a meth lab in the motel where you’re staying