2013 Archives

Let the games begin.

If you think hotel industry is fragmented here, try India, where it is hard to tell the difference between real estate and hotel industry. Now, as airlines and rail are being booked at volume online in India, hotels are coming into the mix of online travel.

To paraphrase a certain baseball philospher, it's getting late very early for flight-search startups. For any chance of success, they'd better offer something unique, have a lot of funding, and figure out how to attract substantial revenue elsewhere.

The Office wasn’t taped in Scranton, but its goal of portraying real-life in a small town life led to close ties with the local businesses, a relationship that put the town in front of millions of American viewers.

Canada’s decision to pull leisure marketing from its poorest performing markets is an interesting tactic, but one that gives individual destinations an opportunity to stand out without competing against the more influential country brand.

The impact pop culture has on tourism can be seen no where as clearly as the physical space in Universal where the Jaws ride is about to be replaced by Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley.

The good news is that the Triumph didn't hit anything on the way out of port. But it's a long way to the Bahamas.

As a first-mover, HotelTonight is in an enviable position. The company faces competition from imitators, including big brands, but there absolutely will be more than one winner in the same-day booking sector. There is a whole big world out there.

Cruise lines and Disney know that a card linked to your credit card makes spending easier. But a bracelet you don't even have to whip out? Even easier than that.

In between four acquisitions so far this year, TripAdvisor has found the time to begin to give Kayak a run for its money in launching hotel metasearch. Kayak isn't going to roll over and play dead, but there will be a huge alternative for travelers to consider.