2013 › April

The policy is actually extremely attractive for families and slim travelers who save more the further they travel when paying by weight, but it's difficult to imagine any airport overcoming the logistics involved with weighing and charging flyers.

Turks and Caicos is the biggest loser in this scenario as the economy loses millions and the virus spreads deeper into the island. The virus originated at the port adding this to a list of Carnival’s recent failures.

Airports, like airlines, have quickly caught on to the customer service uses of Twitter and, in the process, have discovered a personality that furthers their mission of becoming destinations in their own right.

All these hotel groups are now talking about becoming brands and management companies instead of owning these assets, at least in U.S. and Europe, and will be interesting to see how that plays out over next few years.

It remains to be seen whether Schumer and Rockefeller are serious about ramming through any reforms on behalf of passengers and taxpayers.

Zozi is more Gilt Groupe than Viator, and it will be interesting to see if its gear-first, tours-and-activities-second model will work.

These are small airports with little data to back it up either way, so the study seems self serving without the benefit of time.

Born out of the European recession and growing on the back of Turkish Airlines’ airlift, Turkey has entered the spotlight as a global destination and hotel brands are making moves to attract the early adopters.

This is a clear win for the Frommer name and what the brand means to the people who made it the best-selling series in the U.S. and one of the most visited destination websites. But it also raises more concerns about Google's stubborn commitment to its Google+ product despite the clear lack of user interest.