2013 Archives

Vibetunes is a good example of how festivals like Cartagena’s can cater to a handicapped audience while also promoting their event as open and innovative.

Delta is trying to woo business travelers on lucrative long-haul flights from JFK Terminal 4, but the airline likely won't be publicizing the fact that arriving passengers face the longest peak-wait times of any airport in the country in trying to get through Customs.

The Q2 numbers will look even better when the summer numbers start rolling in.

Johannesburg will eventually need to give its badger a human assistant to reply to visitors’ questions for the account to remain relevant and effective in the long term.

HomeAway's transition to offering a pay-per-booking model, with some parallels to but not a carbon copy of Airbnb's, may be more difficult than HomeAway and investors expect.

Clever use of riding on the coattails of social media, though seems a less long lasting strategy, more tactical campaign for immediate awareness.

Boat sharing avoids many of the regulations that make the sharing economy especially difficult to disrupt in the housing and auto industries, leaving quality and safety as the predominant determinants of success.

The study shows that there are no easy answers for travel research and transaction sites and apps: With travelers willing to change devices by whim, location or activity, travel websites have to accommodate the devices within reach, and will have to be flexible enough to handle new devices to come.

The launch will be well-received by flyers looking to cut a few more minutes off the increasingly expedited airport check-in, and shows there are still ways to shave time without launching yet another mobile app.