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For chains such as Hilton Worldwide, which attract their share of business travelers, figuring out a way to fill rooms on the weekends is a constant challenge. Hilton is making progress, though, and perhaps the trend of road warriors tacking on leisure trips could be a contributing factor.

Happy Halloween travels. If you can’t be connected on your flight today, consider buying a Little Book of Calm. (That one’s for our Brit friends, straight from their Black Books.)

HotelTonight puts simplicity and curation in the palm of users' hands.

Even large online travel agencies like Expedia need marketing partners, and that is where the metasearch sites come in. In Expedia's view, its own subsidiary Trivago is helping Expedia compensate for the traffic it is losing, and will continue to lose, from TripAdvisor.

Although it's a step in the right direction, Wi-Fi is still expensive for many regular and loyal customers depending on the kind of service they need.

Puerto Rico will have the opportunity to showcase its improvements to travel agents and the press in person as well as benefit from the influx of business travel for the event.

If things go Starwood's way, then all of that expense in introducing keyless entry at Aloft and W properties will be recouped in higher occupancies and rates.

Kayak started the direct-booking trend among travel metasearch sites, but now CEO Steve Hafner says improvements have been made on partner sites so direct booking is no longer a priority and can hurt, rather than help, turning lookers into bookers. Have the conditions really changed or is this Priceline Group-speak?

Connecting the physical to the digital is a key challenge for destinations and attractions.