2014 › October › 14

Although airlines are safer and more profitable than any time in history, the industry must innovate much more rapidly in order to secure its environmental and financial viability in the future.

Innovation is a buzzword thrown around by executives who want to sound open-minded, but actually fostering an environment where employees feel empowered to take risks and make mistakes is much harder to do.

If designers and trends watchers keep pushing airlines to think beyond the Class-Divide cabin, we might see more imaginative structuring of the aircraft cabin on the major carriers too. Time will tell.

Although lifestyle hotels are trendy, hotel brands are wise to focus some of their marketing efforts on the luxury sector, where interest is heating up.

Virgin Hotels could become a victim of its own hype. By building interest in this less than overt and trendy campaign, it may be setting itself up to fall short of guests' expectations.

The sumptuous artistry of the new book and its message of artistic inspiration help position the Renaissance brand as an insightful, like-minded host for creative professionals.

The Travel Leaders Group survey means that this has been a pretty good year so far for luxury travel for U.S.-based businesses.