2013 Archives

LP's new leadership has a lot of cleaning up to do from the BBC's heavy-handed approach to running the brand. While they do need to be able to reorganize as they see fit, keeping their best employees within the fold has been an issue so far.

State tourism budgets fluctuate with the economy and are slowly rebounding with a new emphasis on international marketing. Allocations will certainly grow as the significance and economic impact of tourism becomes better understood by state and federal leaders.

Airlines are returning to exploitation of their female crew members in order to stir up interest in their services.

You can debate whether Brand USA's strategy is the best way of promoting international visitations to the U.S. But, if the country is going to have a quasi-governmental tourism-marketing organization, it is tough for Brand USA to get on solid footing if it has to constantly look over its shoulder to figure out if it will get renewed funding life.

By no means comprehensive, but by all means insightful, the report is a brief summation of how digital trends are impacting the travel industry and how travel companies can keep ahead of the pack.

In a different era 4,000 passengers would have been given cigars, but Heathrow is a smoke-free airport.

For hotels, Instagram videos are essentially 15 seconds of free advertising, so it makes sense for any company with social media know-how to get on top of this trend.

Uniform design received extra attention this week when Asiana flight attendants were heralded as heroes for evacuating flight 214 in pencil skirts and heels, giving the public a rare view into the degree of detail that goes into airlines' operations.

All jokes aside, Smokey's mission is a very serious and important one, given recent tragedies such as the deaths of 19 firefighters in Arizona who perished battling a wildfire.