2013 › April

Yesterday's tech darling Foursquare is facing lots of skepticism about its future despite ample funding and a user base numbering in the millions.

Some 4,000 new hotel rooms are coming to HomeAway headquarters' city, Austin, Texas. With more rooms, Austin would become a more attractive host for meetings and conventions.

Every change in state/nation branding comes with criticism these days, especially amplified by social media feedback loop. Nevada's new branding, generalizations as all such things are, will have the initial period of tumult, and then everyone will forget.

Should Yosemite National Park resemble a natural wonder or gridlock in Manhattan? Those are the stakes in the debate over the plan to restore the natural flow of the Merced River.

Uh-oh... Ian Fleming, the creator of Agent 007, James Bond, didn't mince any words or play any favorites in his travel writing. Fleming's essays appeared in the Sunday Times, although he had the means to fund his own travels without press trips.

Lion Air is currently banned from flying in Europe, and this incident won't hasten any change in policy.

It will be extremely tough for Paterson, the Silk City, to weave its tourism vision into a reality. But, It has so much to offer, including the history of the Negro Leagues, its immigrant and working-class past, the legacy of the Beat Generation's Alan Ginsberg (not mentioned in the article), a Bob Dylan song, and the splendors of the Great Falls.

One would think Abu Dhabi would learn from Dubai’s mistakes and take a slower or smarter route in developing its tourism industry, but its current projects indicate the city has few plans of slowing down.

Hotels will always be TripAdvisor's main course, but restaurants can serve as an ample second helping for its business.

The absurdity of CorruptTour is precisely the genius of this, and says a lot more about our society than the business itself.