2014 › October

It's understandable that companies want employees to keep business as the focus of a business trip, but if these trips make employees more worldly, help them relax and incorporate family time, employees will likely be more productive in the office and companies can't keep ignoring discussing their policies.

In this transaction, Pegasus Solutions unloads a struggling reservations business to a private equity firm, and a smaller Pegasus Solutions, still facing lots of issues, lives to fight another day.

Business and First class, for the most part, has become a matter for marketing.

Building a new media brand in any sector is difficult, but expensive experiential writing about travel, history, art, and science is even harder to churn into a viable business. Atlas Obscura's intentions are pure, but it will take viral connection with a younger generation to guarantee its longevity.

VisitLex is turning locals into brand ambassadors in hopes that their friends and families will see their good times and soon plan a trip to the city. Its success should serve as a role model to other mid-tier cities throughout the U.S.

We like Nurko's real-world approach to prognosticating.

Getting more aggressive in hotels is a natural fit for Yelp, although it remains to be seen how far Yelp intends to take it.

Crowd favorite Nick Gray wowed the lunchtime audience at our Forum earlier this month. Here's his talk in full.

As the aircraft interiors market keeps growing, manufacturers growing their own sustainable components makes sense.

The use of Big Data is imperative if travel businesses want to improve conversion, grow purchases, and retain customers.