2013 Archives

It's a challenge being an effective regulator with limited funds and adversaries with much deeper pockets and better political connections than your agency has.

Despite airline deregulation, these furloughs highlight the industry’s, sometimes beneficial and other times detrimental, continuing dependency on U.S. regulation and lawmakers.

Individual travel is still no-go, but group tours are going to restart soon. Meanwhile, Chinese suppression in Tibet remains a looming reality.

This discrimination lawsuit against United is not necessarily over with this dismissal. The judge granted the pilots the right to amend their complaint and to refile it.

These Insider Guides can be a nice add-on for vacation rental owners and their customers. A nicely created guide, with neighborhood attractions, could be a selling point for the rentals.

Ryanair currently has bare-bones advertising on its own website, but it sees an opportunity to monetize customers and noncustomers visits to Ryanair.com by selling the data to advertisers. If you visit Ryanair.com, you have a marketing target on your back, but the airline's actions aren't much different from other carriers and hotels.

The report doesn't say, but the point is clear: Select the bus or subway whenever possible.

Vacation rentals aren't much of a bother to the hotel industry at this juncture and won't be for awhile unless the pace of online booking quickens dramatically.

The low ranking is given by a report that includes 200 jobs from all industries; flight attendants would be near the top of an industry-specific list that included Indian train toilet cleaners and Ryanair’s PR manager.

Harry Potter boosted business at Universal’s Orlando park, and a similar result is expected alongside plans for increased hotels and retail for visitors and production employees.