2013 Archives

Tourism and trade work hand-in-hand along the U.S.-Mexico border making shorter wait times, more ports of entry, and less violence vital steps to boosting economies in both countries.

Gulf countries started issuing travel warnings to Lebanon last year as violence trickled across the border, and Lebanese officials are aware that their most important tourist market won’t return until a sense of security is restored.

HotelTonight blazed a trail in the U.S. as a first-mover in same-day, mobile hotel bookings. Although it has strong financial backing, achieving the same rate of success abroad may be a lot more problematic.

Very few consumers have ever said "I'm going to go find a hotel on RoomKey.com," but they have been confused when the webpage pops up after they leave a hotel site. This may make partners happy, but it seems like there are more efficient ways to do this.

If you are a car-rental company, you have to own a car-sharing division, as Enterprise has come to understand. The space is obviously turbo-charged and poised for growth.

The author points out an often-overlooked fact that Priceline/Booking.com may now be putting pressure on Expedia and Orbitz in a mature market, the U.S., with the Booking.com advertising campaign that began earlier this year. Hotwire is already engaged in an offline advertising blitz to answer Priceline's inroads, and Booking.com's campaign makes things even testier.

Satisfaction surveys are more important that ever to hotels that prefer guests to gripe in the privacy of a survey than online, but airing bad service on social media has a way of pushing hotels to make a change.

Still early in use cases being defined for Google Glass, when it comes to air travel. Treating Glass like how you would treat your mobile device usage would seem to be the most common use case, like here.

Citi Bike, like its home city, is among the largest in the world, and a successful launch with local pick-up would see the system expand to all five boroughs with the potential for changing the way NYC moves.