2013 Archives

When your product smells like old flip flops and stale french fries and your promised internet connection and power outlets don't work, you do tend to perform lower than your parent company would like.

For all its problems, Jetsetter is a market leader in hotel flash sales, and an acquisition at a bargain-rate sale price could help TripAdvisor inject some life into SniqueAway.

It's exciting to see Delta experimenting with ways to make passengers' travels better, but will they find a way for get the increasingly cheap flying public to pay for the benefits?

The rise of one tourism economy must mean the fall of another, and in this case, Asia is going to keep on glowing through 2013, while the previous stalwarts in Europe struggle just to stay in the game.

EasyJet's drive to get passengers places while making the most money could turn off customers, but they've managed customer service relatively well -- at least compared to regularly reviled competitor Ryanair.

Our fave, besides the flight information: the available outlets at the gate. Metadata would become king in this scenario.

The amount seems large, but $40 million translates into only 5% of Smithsonian's annual budget, so it will likely find ways to operate normally, at least for now.

Brockway will likely find out that his flirtation with a business outside the travel industry was a flight of fancy. We like his criteria for starting a new business though -- think big.

Seems like tech billionaires love buying up parts of Hawaii. Maybe Ellison is competing with Steve Case, who also owns tens of thousands of acres in the islands.