2013 › March

The most recognizable travel brand in the world just sold for less than half of what it was worth two years ago despite growing revenues. Here's hoping the new ownership will be able to better harness the brand's tremendous value.

Money is the easiest way to compete with the comparatively bloated budgets of Las Vegas and L.A., but creativity counts for just as much with viral videos and online content now at the pulse of cities’ campaigns.

D.C.'s Metro was once the line by which other cities measured their cleanliness, and there's nothing a new set of carpets and some car remodeling couldn't fix.

On the way back to tourism and other less risky industries as the engine of Iceland's growth.

Staid roadside hotel brands are awakening to the existence of branding and the importance it holds in capturing the market of travelers most often on the road these days: young, business oriented, and design conscious travelers.

Great lessons to be learned by brands across all sectors, from one of the the most forward thinking hotel industry brands.

Starwood will likely align itself as the business hotel for Apple’s global hubs, but the property could just as easily become a home base for visitors seeking an inside look at Apple's HQ.

Airlines want the ability to make personalized offers to Millennial business travelers and other generations. They likely already have this data, and a whole lot more based on actual buying patterns.

Brooklyn became a shorthand for repudiation of the logic of globalization. Until it became a brand, and a chain.

Great content is key, but readers can turn almost anywhere on the web for snippets of GGI’s message. GGI needs some real design thinking here to make it work long term.