2013 Archives

Funny for now, and more remains to be seen, but funny has the potential to become old and tired very soon, unlike Vegas' party-hard branding that has stood the test of time.

It has taken a while for Norwegian to come to this point in its IPO process, but looks like it is ready to go public sometime early this year.

For now, this investigation is for Sahara's UK deal, but likely will extend to its acquisition of New York's iconic Plaza Hotel as well. That will surely put a dampener on any new Sahara hotel deals going ahead.

Now that this issue is slowly being solved, will the BBC now speed up the sale process for LonelyPlanet? 2013 may be the year LP will have a new owner.

Heavily funded and hyped, Silvercar has a great business traveler proposition on paper. Logistics and tech glitches, if they happen, could trip it up.

LAX started offering the incentive over a decade ago, which no longer makes sense for the airport as it risks losing up to $120,000 a day from free parking.

Sometimes the simplest of ideas stick with you the most, and this one from Expedia UK surely does that, in a way you can only do in travel category.

Some of the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree forum's bark was inappropriate, and now branches will reopen in stages. The adverse publicity won't derail BBC's potential sale of Lonely Planet, but it won't help it either.