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2013 › January

Hotels

Starwood dominates list of 10 most digitally savvy hotel brands

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

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Starwood dominates list of 10 most digitally savvy hotel brands

Hotels

Why hotels want to make sure that free Internet doesn’t become the norm

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.

Skift | 11 years ago

Why hotels want to make sure that free Internet doesn’t become the norm

Hotels

The hotel room of the future will be an immersive digital experience and a bit creepy, too

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.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 11 years ago

The hotel room of the future will be an immersive digital experience and a bit creepy, too

Airlines

SkiftSocial Analysis: The 10 most popular international airlines on Twitter

The majority of international airlines are newer to Twitter than their American competitors and still in the process of realizing that the power of the platform centers around communicating, not static sharing.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

SkiftSocial Analysis: The 10 most popular international airlines on Twitter

Media and PR

Jamaica shrugs off controversial Volkswagen Super Bowl ad and sees tourism benefit

If Jamaicans aren't insulted by the ad and can get some tourism benefit from it, then it's all good. Jamaica, no problem.

David McFadden, Associated Press | 11 years ago

Jamaica shrugs off controversial Volkswagen Super Bowl ad and sees tourism benefit

Business Travel

BlackBerry 10’s six business traveler features may just sway you

BB's only hope going forward is the huge community of business users and travelers, those who still work in the corporateland, increasingly collaborate through remote work, but would still like consumer-driven features.

Christopher Mims , Quartz | 11 years ago

BlackBerry 10’s six business traveler features may just sway you

Ground Transport

Ride-sharing startup Lyft expands to LA after making deal with California regulators

Regulators are in the process of creating laws that address Lyft and the other ride-sharing startups, which will either give them the validity to blossom or clamp down on their nascent growth.

Skift | 11 years ago

Ride-sharing startup Lyft expands to LA after making deal with California regulators

Skift Originals

The world’s most open countries to go to, turns out, are mostly remote

Visa-on-arrival, the new currency of the globally-connected world.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 11 years ago

The world’s most open countries to go to, turns out, are mostly remote

Airlines

Upgrading to gourmet meals while in-flight is the new new thing

If everything else around you is crappy and you can't control it, maybe paying a bit extra for a great meal may help.

Skift | 11 years ago

Airlines

Is Britain’s economic decline a victory of sorts for the country’s airport expansion foes?

Looking to economic decline as the way out of a poorly planned situation is likely the worst way to solve this problem. Why is it so hard for Britain to have a sensible transportation policy?

Gwyn Topham, The Guardian | 11 years ago

Is Britain’s economic decline a victory of sorts for the country’s airport expansion foes?